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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists have discovered rare, well-preserved cloth fragments, dwellings, baskets, weaving swords, and much more while examining a site near Rome, Italy. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have discovered the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How do today's Indigenous communities of South America trace back to the history of human migration and contact in the continent? Graphical abstract.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in York have used 3D scans to study the Roman burial practice of pouring liquid gypsum over the bodies of adults and
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human ancestors dating back more than about 50,000 years
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists excavating a fortress site in southern Georgia aim to uncover why communities in this area were more resilient than in other parts
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In an episode of the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the small village of Thérouanne, located on the river Lys in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com -There is a mysterious ancient city of Djado located on the southern border of the Djado plateau in northeastern Niger. Once, there were several
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The existence of legendary Jomsvikings is one of the greatest unsolved Viking mysteries. They are described in Icelandic Sagas as superheroes and a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The five new archaeological sites have been discovered in the Megalopolis lignite mine in southern Greece contain valuable faunal and cultural remains belonging
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have led the analysis of bracelets found in the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I – the largest and most famous collection of
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Fossils
AncientPages.com - Palaeontology is the study of evolution and prehistoric life, usually preserved as fossils in rocks. It combines aspects of geology with biology and many other scientific disciplines. But
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A tip from the local population had led the archaeologists from Frankfurt to the area near the city of Ibra in Oman, where
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were both innovative and often devised similar surviving techniques independently. Recently, scientists demonstrated Neanderthals invented or developed birch
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person’s visual perspective is a complex skill
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Every so often, life on Earth steps onto a nearly empty playing field and faces a spectacular opportunity. Something major changes—in the atmosphere
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at Netherhampton Road, on the edge of Harnham, a southern suburb of Salisbury, England have unearthed a giant Bronze Age barrow
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia's eastern islands in rock art paintings that may provide the
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One of Australia's first long-distance walkers has been described after Flinders University paleontologists used advanced 3D scans and other technology to take
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. Raucous texts—mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers have confirmed that 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones discovered more than 30 years ago are the oldest of their kind ever
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stone Age humans may have made extended maritime voyages on the Caspian Sea, according to a new study published in the journal Open Archaeology.
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Archaeology
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,
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has shown that humans may have evolved a spring-like arch to help us walk on two feet. Researchers studying the
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Archaeology
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
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – History has taught us that people have, on certain occasions, done bizarre things. Depending on the circumstances and mental state of mind, it
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DNA
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
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