Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The recent archaeological excavations at George Washington’s Mount Vernon have yielded an extraordinary discovery. Archaeologists have unearthed 35 glass bottles from the 18th century buried in five storage pits within the Mansion’s cellar. Remarkably, 29
AncientPages.com – How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our main sources of information have been pottery sherds, burial sites and ancient texts. But the study of ancient DNA is changing what we know about the human past, and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman tomb in Carmona, Spain, has led to a significant archaeological find. Inside the tomb, the skeletal remains of a man were found immersed in a liquid inside a glass
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists at the Ostia Antica Archaeological Park have made remarkable new discoveries while preparing an area for visitors. Ostia, the ancient port city of Rome, played a crucial role in trade and served as the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As previously reported, in 2022, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands made a remarkable archaeological discovery at Herwen-Hemeling (Zevenaar). Scientists unearthed a complete and intact ancient Roman temple, hailed as unique in the Netherlands. The
AncientPages.com – Why did humans take over the world while our closest relatives, the Neanderthals, became extinct? It’s possible we were just smarter, but there’s surprisingly little evidence that’s true. Neanderthal hand axes, Aisne, France. Metropolitan Museum of art. Neanderthals
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An isotopic analysis conducted on ancient human remains indicates that men and women possessed equivalent access to resources approximately 6,000 years ago. In orange, the location of the site of Barmaz, looking south. It is
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have been investigating human remains discovered near the ruins of a bridge in the Three Lakes region of Switzerland. Their aim is twofold: to unravel the circumstances surrounding the discovery and to gain deeper insights
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The recent discovery of a 2,400-year-old tablet in Spain has shed light on an ancient lost civilization. The 8-inch slate, unearthed at the Casas del Turuñuelo archaeological site, appears inscribed with an alphabetic sequence of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University have made a remarkable discovery by recovering two Medieval grave slabs submerged at the bottom of Studland Bay for nearly 800 years. These slabs, carved from the fossiliferous Purbeck marble,
AncientPages.com – On June 8, 1023, 1,001 years ago, King Cnut took a bath. In itself this was not particularly remarkable. Contrary to the image of a ubiquitously grubby middle ages that dominates film and television, there is evidence to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The wreck of the Quest, the last ship belonging to the renowned Irish-born British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, has been discovered off the coast of Labrador, Canada, after being missing for 62 years. An international
AncientPages.com – On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery at a “once-in-a-decade” site in the United Kingdom, unearthing as many as 19,000 ancient artifacts from prehistory to the early Medieval period. The excavation, conducted at the Calthorpe Gardens
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Important scientific discoveries do not necessarily come in grand or attention-grabbing forms. Sometimes, new findings emerge from unassuming and ordinary objects. Such is the case with a 6-centimeter-wide, unremarkable mass of bone and teeth that
AncientPages.com – If you pay a visit to the Singapore Stone, displayed at the National Museum of Singapore, you might be disappointed. That’s because the inscription – carrying an unknown writing system transcribing an unknown language – is fading. But if
