News Archive
DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People who carry three gene variants inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study co-led
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is much to be learned from many ancient civilizations. Ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water,
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This beautiful little key was recently recovered by our Kemble field team from a Newland Homes site near Claverham, North Somerset. Medieval key from Court De
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Earlier this year our Kemble fieldwork team undertook a small excavation at the edge of Claverham village, North Somerset, for Newland Homes. The excavation
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new decorated stela has been found in context, in the 3000-year-old funerary complex of Las Capellanías, in Cañaveral de León (Huelva, south-west of Spain).
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Earth Changes
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analyzing ancient tree-rings found in
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One can easily imagine how impressive the 19-meter-long Gjellestad Viking ship must have been before being destroyed. In 2018 archaeologists made an incredible discovery
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists propose a psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Use-wear analysis of grinding tools unearthed at the site of Jebel Oraf in the Nafud desert, shows that the artifacts were used during
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Research into ancient hunter-gatherer populations of the Iberian Peninsula has mainly focused on coastal regions, with relatively little investigation into the inland. A classic
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence suggesting the ancient use of ochre in Africa and Europe indicates that body painting, clothing decoration, and tattooing may
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While investigating a site at the southern edge of the Nefud desert in Saudia Arabia, archaeologists discovered remarkable ancient life-sized engravings of extinct
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 10,000 Pre-Columbian archaeological sites likely rest undiscovered throughout the Amazon basin, estimates a new study. Geographical distribution of known and newly
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During the ongoing restoration works of Esna Temple in Luxor , the Egyptian-German archaeologists additionally uncovered more original reliefs and engravings on the
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Our species, Homo sapiens, migrated out of Africa multiple times – reaching the Levant and Arabia between 130,000 and 70,000 years ago, as exemplified by human fossils
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The remains of human bones with cutmarks, breaks and human chewing marks found across northern Europe show that some human groups living around
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are puzzled by 5,000-year-old bear bones found on the Unalaska and Amaknak Islands in the Aleutians, Alaska. The ancient bones have been
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Cave of Letters in the Judean Desert, Israel, was discovered many years ago by Bedouin of the Ta`amireh tribe. When the cave
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent
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News
AncientPages.com - How often do you think about the Roman empire? This question, posed to men by their partners on social media app TikTok, has led to a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare 2,500-year-old Scythian bone sceptre has been found in a grave by archaeologists excavating in the prehistoric salt mining and urban center
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Africa is the birthplace of modern humans and the continent with the highest level of genetic diversity. While ancient DNA studies reveal some
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Um Al-Qaab archaeological site in Abydos in Sohag Governorate, Egypt, have discovered hundreds of 5,000-year-old well-preserved wine jars and grave
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The cuneiform tablet unearthed in the Hittite city of Samuha points to the connection with the famous temple of the Goddess Sausga (also
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a
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Artifacts
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - The game mancala may have originated as far back as 6000 BCE in Jordan and is played around the world to this day. It
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While searching for a missing gold ring with a metal detector, a family in Norway found, to their big surprise, something entirely different
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