Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birch tar is the oldest synthetic substance made by early humans, and those humans were in the long past - Neanderthals. But the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two ancient shipwrecks, most likely dated to the mid-Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), were discovered about 1,500 meters under the sea level in South China Sea,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague—the oldest evidence of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of our species is a fascinating and complicated subject. Scientists often discuss our long-gone relatives, the Neanderthals, and some studies attempt

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, have unearthed two stunning embalming workshops. During a press conference, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one's role in society belongs in the past. But was

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For at least three million years, knapping stone has been practiced by hominin societies large and small, past and present. Thus, understanding knapping,

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) makes a new technological appraisal of a northern gannet bone that displays complex

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Approximately 200 million years ago, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa, India, and Australia in a single "supercontinent" called Gondwana. Paleontologists have

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Not so long ago, the public was invited to participate in the Carlisle Roman bath excavation. The project, run by Wardell Armstrong, Cumberland

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The medieval trading center of Rungholt, which is today located in the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage Site and currently the focus of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A trip back through time in Alberta offers evidence to bolster a recent study suggesting non-avian dinosaurs were already waning over the 10 million

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you look at enough dinosaur fossils, you'll see that their skulls sport an amazing variety of bony ornaments, ranging from the horns

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding