Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For decades, historians have debated whether an infamously violent Viking torture ritual ever really happened, or if it was a misunderstood or embellished

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first genome-wide ancient human DNA data from Sudan reveals new insights into the ancestry and social organization of people who lived more than

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Despite its prior status as a luxury commodity, silver became widely used for coinage in the Roman world from the 7th century BCE

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hunter-gathers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archeologists from Leiden University in collaboration

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ten thousand years ago, just after the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave. They

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rising as high as 20 feet, ancient stone monoliths in southern Ethiopia are 1,000 years older than scientists previously thought, according to a

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists from the University of Zurich examined a unique leather scale armor from the grave of a horseman in northwest China. The style and

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1, we discussed our ancestors' knowledge of mysterious gateways leading to other worlds. Though this may seem like an implausible scenario,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most people around the world agree that the made-up word 'bouba' sounds round in shape, and the made-up word 'kiki' sounds pointy --

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK. A rare Roman mosaic and surrounding villa complex have been

Jan Bartek  - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg have concluded an excavation of two tombs in the Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke in

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest unequivocal evidence of upright walking in the human lineage are footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1978, by paleontologist Mary Leakey

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What if Indigenous diets could save our politically and ecologically strained planet? The answer may lie in the success of an ancient civilization

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed the death rate of babies in ancient societies is not a reflection