Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient rulers had one thing in common with political leaders today - they were eager to brand themselves. Archaeologists have discovered Maya rulers

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team describes ancient hand and footprints made deliberately which they argue represent art. Hand shapes are commonly found in prehistoric caves, usually,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This summer, a tomb embedded in the rock by the main entrance to the San Tirso and San Bernabé Hermitage situated in the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread

Conny Waters- AncientPages.com - An international group of scientists has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Today, more than 10 percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. While cousin-marriages are common practice in some societies,

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - According to available ancient references, Takshashila was the first and earliest Buddhist center of Vedic learning, and the city of Takshashila itself also

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com -  Many answers to certain ancient mysteries can be found if we investigate underwater structures built by long-lost civilizations. Underwater archaeologists have made remarkable

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As they watch the Olympic Games in Japan, a group of University of Toronto students is learning about the origins and historical significance

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Understanding the environmental conditions under which early humans dispersed out of Africa is important for understanding the factors that affected human evolution. This

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from the Uppsala University have uncovered the remains of an Iron Age warrior in Sweden. The find made during excavations in

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists in Denmark say they have struck gold, they do really mean it! One of the biggest gold treasures ever discovered in