Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers re-analysed more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain. They found that many of the individuals may have been casualties of the earliest period of warfare in Europe,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Earlier this year, scientists reported the discovery of a sophisticated 4,000-year-old steppe pyramid in Kazakhstan. Archaeologists have now found yet another pyramid located on a hill next to the Taldy-Nura River, 13 km east of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists from Tübingen have redefined a rhinoceros genus that had fallen into oblivion: Eochilotherium lived more than 5 million years ago and did not have a horn on its nose. Hornless rhinos were known to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Underwater archaeologists conducting surveys off the coast of Salamis have found an ancient Greek building and magnificent marble treasures. According to reports, it is a large, long, and narrow building with seven rooms. The intriguing
AncientPages.com – Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia, while the more primitive Homo erectus lived in Indonesia, and Homo rhodesiensis in central Africa. A
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient Greek city of Assos on the Aegean coast of modern Turkey is an interesting place where many archaeological have been made. In Assos, we find a magnificent ancient temple dedicated to Goddess Athena,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Historians and archaeologists have, over centuries, explored the mysteries behind the Great Sphinx of Giza: What did it originally look like? What was it designed to represent? What was its original name? But less attention
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have opened an Etruscan tomb that has remained sealed for about 2,600 years. The double-chambered tomb located in the Osteria necropolis in Vulci, a rich Etruscan city in what is now northern Lazio, central
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A research team led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has identified the most widespread genetic contribution by Denisovans to date. The study reveals that the genetic variant observed,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The story of the unique Late Bronze Age logboat started many years ago. It has taken scientists and other experts many years to recover, restore, and put the fascinating 9m (or 30 ft) long logboat
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The world’s oldest human statue has been unearthed in Karahan Tepe, Turkey. The 7.5-foot-tall statue is estimated to be about 11,000 years and depicts a man clutching his penis with both hands. The 7.5ft (2.3m)-tall
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists working in the western part of Racibórz, called Studzienna, Poland, have unearthed stone tools that are 130,000 years old, or possibly even older. These are the oldest traces of human presence in the foreground
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A massive ancient statue of the Mesopotamian deity Lamassu has been unearthed at the Dur-Sharrukin archaeological site, Khorsabad, in Nineveh, Iraq. The Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) informs a joined Iraqi-French archaeological
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The vast necropolis of Pontecagnano in the province of Salerno, Italy, contains almost 10,000 burials dating from 3000 B.C. to the third century C.E. The excavation of the necropolis started by Bruno D’Agostino in 1962
Jan Bartek – AncientPages – During an archaeological survey in Pezinok, a town near Bratislava, Slovakia, scientists unearthed several remarkable objects. The territory is part of an important historical mining site in the Little Carpathians, and the findings show that
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In a twist in the ancient human story, emerging evidence suggests that we may have worn shoes as early as the Middle Stone Age (75,000—150,000 years ago). This could mean that our species had complex
