AncientPages.com – London has been a multicultural city since its earliest days as a Roman city, according to new cutting-edge DNA research just published by the Museum of London. Scientists examined four skeletons, looking at sex chromosomes, evidence for disease, travel and diet, and bioarchaeological evidence for
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists say they have made a ground-breaking discovery on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. Experts have found what appears to be a small Roman fort on land near Cemlyn Bay and close to the Wylfa power station. The ‘fortlet’ is
AncientPages.com – Modern humans spread rapidly around the world from 100,000 years ago but neither population increase nor ecological changes provide an adequate explanation for patterns of this behavior. A study conducted by Dr. Penny Spikins, an archaeologist at the University of
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists allow public to see important phase of conservation work on remarkable Le Catillon II Hoard. Peeling back the top five centimetres of a pile of buried in a field 2,000 years ago, archaeologists in Jersey are preparing to
AncientPages.com – The introduction of agriculture into Europe about 8,500 years ago changed the way people lived right down to their DNA. Now, an international team reports in Nature that researchers can see how natural selection happened by analyzing ancient human DNA. By
AncientPages.com – Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset holds a special place in popular culture. It was renowned in the early middle ages as the reputed burial place of the legendary King Arthur and the site of the earliest Church in Britain, thought
AncientPages.com – Egyptian authorities announces the three-day operation that involves the use of non-invasive radar to search behind the walls of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. Exploration work will start Thursday to test a theory that Egyptian Queen Nefertiti is buried behind a wall
AncientPages.com – Excavations conducted in one of Europe’s oldest prehistoric settlements – the Solnitsata (‘Salt Pit’), located in the vicinity of a town in Provadia, in northeastern Bulgaria, shed light on the life of a complex prehistoric society that once
AncientPages.com – A Swiss farmer has discovered more than 4,000 Roman coins, exceptionally well-preserved and with high silver content. This surprising discovery was made on his cherry plantation and now archaeologists are puzzled. According to experts, the coins are of Roman origin and
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw using aerial photographs and geophysical surveys, confirmed the location of settlement dating back more than two thousand years in Respublikaniec (Kherson Oblast), and discovered previously unknown structures in its area. Excavations are conducted
AncientPages.com – Recently we reported how archaeologists excavating in China have uncovered eight main tombs and a chariot burial area with walls. The burial site is believed to be of Liu He – the grandson of Emperor Wu, who was the
AncientPages.com – A Roman shield — painted with scenes from the Trojan War and possibly used in parades during ancient times – is more than 2,000 year-old artifact. It was excavated 80 years ago but now is examined by a team of
AncientPages.com – A new study indicates that Neanderthal man arrived on the Italian peninsular some 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers analyzed radioactive deposits that were found in sediments present inside two Neanderthal skulls unearthed in a gravel pit Saccopastore,
AncientPages.com – After 10 years of excavations, Israeli archaeologists have finally solved “one of Jerusalem’s greatest archaeological mysteries” — identifying the location of the Acra, an infamous fortress used by ancient Greece to control the Jewish Temple and Jerusalem more than 2,000 years
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists find Ice Age engravings, tools and burnt bone within “very rare” British settlement at Jersey. Archaeologists say hunter-gatherers from the Magdalenian culture of between 16,000 and 13,000 years ago lived at a clifftop site in Jersey where dense
AncientPages.com – A large, well-preserved 1,500-year-old winery has been exposed during a violent storm in the Sharon Plain region, located between the Mediterranean Sea and Samarian Hills, the Antiquities Authority announced Monday. According to IAA archeologist Alla Nagorski, the discovery was
