Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Understanding the way in which sounds move through archaeological sites could offer insights into how ancient societies may have organized themselves. Excavated building with semi-circular interior stone wall, speaker placed at focal point of curve.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – About 6 million years ago, in the deep forests of eastern Africa, something spectacular happened. Chimpanzees, our closest relative in the animal kingdom, evolved in one direction, while our earliest ancestors continued in another. Image source
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An amateur treasure hunter has found five well-preserved Bronze Age axe heads in the Starogard forest near Szczecin, Poland. It is a unique discovery because these objects are rarely found on these lands. The last
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Despite the Roman Empire’s extensive military and cultural influence on the nearby Balkan peninsula, a DNA analysis of individuals who lived in the region between 1 and 1000 CE found no genetic evidence of Iron Age
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists assisting with the restoration works of the Split City Museum in Croatia have made a surprising discovery. Beneath the building, they found large Roman baths and mosaics. Researchers did expect to make some minor
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, an international team of archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin has uncovered fortified prehistoric settlements in a remote region of Siberia. The results of their research reveal that hunter–gatherers in Siberia
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A series of ‘bone biographies’ created by a major research project tell the stories of medieval Cambridge residents as recorded on their skeletons, illuminating everyday lives during the era of Black Death and its aftermath.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have long been intrigued by the mysterious Menga Dolmen in Spain. The Menga Dolmen is one of the largest known ancient megalithic structures on the European continent. Located in the Piedras Blancas site, Antequera,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While scanning the Yucatan jungle in Mexico with lasers, scientists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered an 18-kilometer (11-mile) long Maya road. The sacbé (white road, in the Mayan language) linked
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – McGill researchers challenge current understanding of dinosaur extinction by unearthing link between volcanic eruptions and climate change. Image credit: Public Domain What wiped out the dinosaurs? A meteorite plummeting to Earth is only part of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There is a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery south of the Arctic Circle. Scientists call the place a cemetery even though the graves are empty. The Tainaro site was first excavated about four decades ago, but
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A beautiful small Roman copper-alloy tortoise figurine has been recovered by a local metal detector user near Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, UK. Tortoises or turtles were most often associated with the god Mercury in the Roman
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Seven impressive Bronze Age swords and a large hoard of Slavic coins have been unearthed by volunteer archaeologists in Germany. The find was made in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans during the Paleolithic. Scientists found that humans selected rock for a variety of reasons and not just because of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Found in a field, near Horsham St Faith north of Norwich, UK, by a metal detectorist this beautiful seal matrix has been hailed as “completely unique” by experts. Most likely, the Medieval seal matrix belonged
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered dozens of unique artifacts that span more than 7,000 years in melting ice patches in British Columbia’s Mount Edziza Provincial Park, Canada. During the survey, over 50 perishable artifacts were found near
