Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Approximately 19,000 years ago, a woman from a hunter-gatherer community passed away and was interred in a cave located in northern Spain. In 1996, archaeologists began investigating this site, uncovering substantial evidence of prehistoric human
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers started deciphering text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum. Researchers have achieved a significant milestone by generating the first image of the interior of scroll PHerc. 172. Image credit: Vesuvius
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The origins of the Indo-European language family, which encompasses over 400 languages, including major groups like Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, spoken by nearly half of the global population today, have long intrigued historians
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Research conducted by geoscientists from Heidelberg University has provided new insights into early environmental contamination in the Aegean Sea region. By analyzing sediment cores from the sea floor and surrounding coastal areas, the study found
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Svingerud grave field, located in Hole municipality, Buskerud County, about 40 kilometers northwest of Oslo, Norway, has emerged as a significant site for archaeological research. This interest is driven by the discovery of several sandstone
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A recent study from the Vilnius University explores the adaptive agricultural practices employed by pre-industrial communities in north-eastern Europe over the last two thousand years. Field of buckwheat. Photo credit: Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute “The past two
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A magnificent and uniquely rare Roman gold lock has been presented to the public by the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (LWL). Dating back to the 3rd or 4th century AD, the miniature Roman lock, smaller than
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ella Egberts from VUB conducted a field trip to Iraq in November and December 2024 as part of a pilot project to identify archaeological surface materials. The objective of this research is to enhance understanding of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A researcher from McGill University has uncovered new insights about Guiengola, a 15th-century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico. Previously believed to be merely a military fortress, it has now been identified as an extensive
Jan Barterk – AncientPages.com – Scientists have recently discovered that a pre-Columbian society in the Amazon, known as the Casarabe Society of the Llanos de Moxos in Bolivia, developed an advanced agricultural engineering system. This innovative approach enabled them to cultivate
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveal a unique papyrus from the Israel Antiquities Authority. This offers rare insights into Roman legal proceedings and life in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered evidence suggesting that a house in England may be the site of a lost residence belonging to Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. This tapestry
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered new evidence of early hominin activity in Europe, indicating that hominins were present on the continent much earlier than previously believed. Background image: Dmanisi fossils – Credit: Gerbil – CC BY 3.0
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The ongoing debate about the disappearance of Neanderthals remains a fascinating topic in scientific research. Previous studies have established that Neanderthals, along with other human relatives, became extinct thousands of years ago, leaving modern humans
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A significant archaeological discovery has been made in the Dutch municipality of Bunnik, near Utrecht, where 404 silver and gold coins from the beginning of the Common Era have been unearthed. This collection features a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The oldest known dinosaur fossils, dating back approximately 230 million years, have been discovered in southern regions such as Brazil, Argentina, and Zimbabwe. These fossils exhibit differences that imply dinosaurs had been evolving for some
