Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Stone tools and other artifacts unearthed from an archeological dig at the Cooper’s Ferry site in western Idaho suggest that people lived in the area 16,000 years ago, more than a thousand years earlier than scientists

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A decision to deliberately destroy a 12,000-year-old Mesopotamian city has sparked outrage and controversy. Hasankeyf, located on the banks of the Tigris River in southeast Turkey is today inhabited by thousands of residents who have

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – After being submerged for 50 years, the stunning Spanish Stonehenge can now be admired once again. The 5,000-year-old site believed to have been constructed by the Celts consists of 144 megalithic blocks that stand more

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have recreated Cleopatra’s ancient perfume, which will be showcased in a National Geographic exhibit. The ancient Egyptian city Thmuis (Tell Timai) in the Nile Delta was the home to the most famous perfumes of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – People in Croatia during the 5th to 6th centuries may have used cranial modifications to indicate their cultural affiliations, researchers say. The latest study confirms the oldest known incidence of Artificial Cranial Deformation (ACD) in

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New research has found that the population of Ireland was in serious decline for almost 200 years before the Vikings settled. Previously it was thought that the population of Ireland gradually increased over the years. Using

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A small piece of papyrus that was excavated on the island of Elephantine on the River Nile a little over 100 years ago, has been studied by researchers using among others non-destructive techniques at BESSY

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ago, which means the date is about 10,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously believed. It is also 15,000 years after modern humans left African continent.

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  –  The face of one of Scotland’s oldest druids, believed to have been more than 60 years old when she died during the Iron Age, has been reconstructed by Karen Fleming, an MSc Forensic Art & Facial Identification

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During excavations on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, archaeologists from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, have found evidence of the Babylonian conquest of the city from 587/586 BC. The discovery is important because it

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Two 2,000-year-old marble eagle statues have been discovered in a Hellenistic temple at the Kınık Mound, located near the Yeşilyurt village in Niğde’s Altunhisar district, Turkey. One of the two 2,000-year-old marble eagles discovered in the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – People in Ethiopia did not live in low valleys during the last ice age. Instead they lived high up in the inhospitable Bale Mountains, according to a new study. Researchers provide the first evidence that

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Even at the peak of their culture rival groups of the Maya acted with great brutality. Extreme conflicts broke out before the civilization’s decline, researchers say. Archaeologists have documented the destruction of the Maya city

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists found shards of ceramic vessels that date back to 4640 – 4460 BC, and are from an unknown ancient culture, probably related to Valdivia, one of the oldest pottery-featured cultures in North and South