Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest plateau above sea level, is one of the harshest environments settled by humans. It has a cold and arid environment and its elevation often surpasses 4000 meters above
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists announced recently they had solved the bog body mystery in Europe. A major study of over 1,000 ancient bog bodies across Scandinavia has revealed more information about this intriguing phenomenon that still fascinates the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists from INRAP (France’s National Institute for Preventive Archaeology) excavating in the Sernam/ Boulingrin district have unearthed a vast Roman-era complex dated to the 2nd and 3rd century AD. Archaeologists from INRAP
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Traces of ancient Roman presence can be found all over the UK. While preparing a site for constructing a new Aldi supermarket in Olney, a market town in Buckinghamshire, UK, Oxford archaeologists found the remains
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The unicorn is a legendary animal often depicted on ancient seals and in Medieval manuscripts. The beautiful and mysterious animal has fascinated people for ages, especially during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Yet, many wonder
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Notre-Dame de Paris is the first known cathedral of Gothic-style architecture to be initially constructed with extensive use of iron to bind stones together. The 2019 fire that significantly damaged the cathedral enabled analyses
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Excavations led by researchers from the University of Gothenburg show that the coveted metal copper and a sheltered location turned the Cypriot village of Hala Sultan Tekke into one of the most important trade hubs
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using DNA analysis and modern forensic techniques, scientists have reconstructed the face of a Stone Age boy who lived in Norway. The Vistegutten – the boy from Viste died at only 14 years old. Why
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A comprehensive analysis of an archaeological site in Saudi Arabia sheds new light on mustatils—stone monuments from the Late Neolithic period thought to have been used for ritual purposes. Built about 7,000 years ago, mustatils
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The desert in southern Egypt is filled with hundreds of petroglyphs and inscriptions dating from the Neolithic to the Arab period. The oldest date is from the fifth millennium B.C. and few have been studied.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Atapuerca Research Team (EIA) participated in a paper led by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) that presents a taphonomic analysis of the bone alterations in the skeletons of more
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study has found evidence of cheesemaking, using milk from multiple animals, in Late Neolithic Poland. The research suggests that early farmers reduced the lactose content in milk by making it into cheese or
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Peru’s first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600 to 1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues as
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at a small site near Buckingham report an intriguing find. According to researchers, this is the former site of a watermill with potential late Anglo-Saxon origins, which continued to operate until the early
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When archaeologists found a curious object at Bar Hill near Cambridge, UK, they understood it was an unusual ancient artifact, but exactly was it? Examinations revealed that the strange object was a comb dating back
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have been researching an area under the North Sea known as Doggerland, which was home to one of the largest prehistoric settlements in Europe. But with the expansion of wind farms in the North
