AncientPages.com – While excavating at Fort San Juan, near Morganton, North Carolina scientists have made archaeological discoveries that reveal how early contact between Native Americans and European explorers shaped the history of the American South. Fort San Juan was discovered in 2013.
AncientPages.com – The fact that we use a language today is so obvious that most don’t contemplate when, where and how humans started using a language to communicate. However, the development of a language has long been a scientific puzzle.
AncientPages.com – Ancient remains of Roman aqueduct dating back to the first century have been surprisingly revealed after storm at Cortadura beach, Cádiz, a city and port in southwestern Spain. The storm also revealed parts of a stone road dated back
AncientPages.com – Every now and then scientists discover something that forces them to re-write history. This has just happened in the case of Middle Ages altarpieces. It has long been assumed that altarpieces from the late Middle Ages were made in
AncientPages.com – It has long been debated how the great English writer William Shakespeare came up with ideas and unique phrases for his great plays. Did Shakespeare have a source of inspiration? A new study shows Shakespeare was not entirely honest in
AncientPages.com – About 60 years ago, archaeologists excavating in Czermno, Poland discovered a unique spindle whorl. At the time scientists did not notice the object was covered with seemingly chaotic lines forming an inscription. Now, the artifact has been examined and
AncientPages.com – A 132-year-old message in a bottle was discovered on a remote Australian beach, Wedge Island and turned out to be part of an important worldwide experiment, reports Deutsche Welle. An Australian family discovered a bottle half-buried in the sand
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at the Margate Caves site in Kent, UK have made an unusual discovery. They uncovered an Iron Age skeleton in the bottom of a bell-shaped chalk pit. The skeleton was found to be a rare crouch burial,
AncientPages.com – Thousands of years ago, our ancestors came up with efficient farming techniques that modern scientists are now investigating to mitigate climate change. Using high technology researchers are uncovering long-forgotten irrigation systems and other features concealed in landscapes that farmers
AncientPages.com – A pot containing some 500 silver and gold coins was found during water works conducted near the city of Vianen, in the province of Utrecht, central Netherlands. Most of the coins seem to date from the 1470’s and 1480’s. Some
AncientPages.com – Burial pits containing human remains, probably dated to the early 17th century have been found during renovation and restoration works under the floor of the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rzeszów. It is believed
AncientPages.com – During works for Rome’s new subway station, workers have uncovered an ancient Roman ‘Commander’s House’, the first discovery of its kind in the Italian capital, say archaeologists and conservation experts. As ANSA reports, the dig has turned up a
AncientPages.com – A 7,000-year -old Native American underwater burial site has been discovered off the coast of Florida, near the Venice shoreline. Archaeologists now hope this discovery leads to more knowledge and a greater understanding of Florida’s early peoples. “Seeing a
AncientPages.com – Many modern people love tattoos and so did our ancestors. Several ancient civilizations used tattoos for a number of reasons and scientists have discovered many very old skeletons covered with unusual symbols that we sometimes don’t even understand. It
AncientPages.com – Unfortunately, sometimes something must be destroyed so that another discovery can be brought to light. Seven clay tablets, found in a palace hidden under the Tomb of Jonah in the northern city of Mosul, describe the rule of a
AncientPages.com – Many famous artists had hidden secrets messages or other details beneath their paintings. One of them was world famous painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) who deliberately changed certain things during the painting process. Using an X-ray fluorescence imaging
