AncientPages.com – The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts are often just as interesting as the content of the manuscripts themselves. One such example is the frequently recurring – and extremely odd – image of knights warring against snails.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating site Stöð on Stöðvarfjörður in East Iceland have found a small stone carved with a Viking Ship. This little find may be a big archaeological discovery as it seems this is the oldest
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – No one knows what happened when we, Homo sapiens, first encountered the Neanderthals. But we know we met. We know that for thousands of years we lived side by side in Europe and Asia. And
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A very rare 3,000-year-old sword has been found in Bayern, Germany. The sword from the Middle Bronze Age is still in such good condition that it almost still shines. Archaeologists have been excavating in Närdlingen,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A 2,000-year-old skull unearthed in a tomb may offer evidence ancient Romans were the first to breed dogs with flat faces. Examination of the skull shows that the dog resembled a French bulldog. A 2,000-year-old
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Hundreds of human skulls and mandibles recovered from the Crenshaw site in southwest Arkansas are the remains of ancestors of the Caddo Nation and not foreign enemies, according to a new study published in the
AncientPages.com – The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed cat ready to pounce, or a group of elephantlike mammoths stripping tree branches.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows that a condition known as Dupuytren’s disease is partly of Neanderthal origin. Researchers have long known that the disease was much more common in Northern Europeans than in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first side-necked turtle ever to be found in the U.K. has been discovered by an amateur fossil collector and paleontologists at the University of Portsmouth. The fossil remains are the earliest of a so-called side-necked pan-pleurodiran
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists report discovering an “incredibly rare” Roman tomb near London Bridge Station, UK. Last year, archaeologists found very largest Roman mosaics at the same site, and scientists understood something much bigger might be hidden beneath
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers who discovered a vast network of stone walls along the River Nile in Egypt and Sudan say these massive “river groins” reveal an exceptionally long-lived form of hydraulic engineering in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at the site of the A40 Science Transit park & ride at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, have made some interesting discoveries. During excavations, the Cotswold Archaeology research team unearthed a Middle Iron Age settlement
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live young, researchers from Nanjing University and University of Bristol have revealed. Until now, the hard-shelled egg was thought to be the key to the
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – As an archaeologist, you can expect to find some surprises everywhere. That’s what happened during recent excavations on a hill in Tystberga outside the city of Norrköping, Sweden, where scientists unearthed something eye-catching. A new
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient city of Kythnos on the Aegean Sea island has long fascinated archaeologists. The site, first inhabited about 10,000 years ago, has some of the oldest prehistoric settlements in the Cyclades. An aerial view of
AncientPages.com – The French archaeologist Ludovic Slimak has spent the past 30 years rummaging fields and caves from the Horn of Africa to the Artic Circle, and, of course, his beloved Rhône Valley in France. For the past year and
