Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the ancient city of Doliche in southeastern Turkey have uncovered more than 2,000 clay seal impressions. The seal impression, bullae, were small pieces of clay used in ancient times to sign documents
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Sumerians were an advanced ancient civilization fully aware of the dangers climate can pose. They naturally knew there was no survival without water, and when their magnificent city of Girsu became endangered, they decided to
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Crocodiles have a deep and varied evolutionary past. Now, researchers are peeling back the layers to find out how the surviving species came to be. Some ancient crocodiles, like Simosuchus, were doing things vastly different
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France), which has been sealed for thousands of years, were actually made by Neanderthals. This research was performed by Basel archaeologist Dorota Wojtczak
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have found more evidence that a site at Rendlesham, near Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, UK, was important to East Anglian Kings. Previous excavation led to the discovery of a large timber Royal Hall, confirming
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An extensive study sheds new light on the complex evolution of our feet. “The human foot is one of the most complex masterpieces of evolution, a work of art in biomechanics: not only does it allow us
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It is believed that the earliest written Scots Gaelic in the world was produced in the Monastery of Deer in the late 11th and early 12th century. These texts, Gaelic land grants, were placed in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For the last 80 years, farmers in the Shanxi-Shaanxi Plateau, China, have encountered many Bronze Age artifacts in the fields. Many locals sent these ancient objects to authorities, and several artifacts can be seen in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – There are still many unknown ancient structures in Europe. Due to their hard-to-reach location, some prehistoric buildings can only be detected from the air using an ultra-compact, drone-deployed Lidar that can penetrate the environment. Archaeologists
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at Bagno Grande in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy, have all reasons to celebrate. The 2023 excavation campaign that lasted three months resulted in many new and exceptional discoveries. Located 110 km southeast
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For a team of archaeologists digging in southwest Spain, the discovery of a Bronze/Iron Age stela—a funerary stone slab with carvings depicting an important individual—would have been exciting enough. But to find a stela that
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The most important road in the history of Scotland has been found in the garden of the Old Inn Cottage, next to the 18th century Old Drip Bridge, a few miles west of Stirling city
