Europe Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near Buckingham, UK, have found an interesting Mesolithic stone mace head. Mesolithic hunter-gather activity is believed to have focussed on resource-rich

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An analysis of strands of human hair from a burial site in Menorca, Spain, indicates that ancient human civilizations used hallucinogenic drugs derived

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists investigating Exeter Cathedral’s historic Cloister Garden have uncovered clues to its Roman past. The archaeological investigation is part of the cathedral’s project to build

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Iceni people were British Celts who occupied the area of modern Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and northwest Suffolk. The tribe represented a significant power

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near Garforth in Leeds, UK, have made a "once-in-a-lifetime" find. Scientists report they have discovered multiple ancient burials. The hidden cemetery

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A mysterious ancient stone structure was discovered while laying a fiber optic cable in Torreano, a town of 2,060 inhabitants in Friuli-Venezia Giulia,

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A previously unknown Crusades-era bird pendant found in Lappajärvi in the 1960s is now in the collection of the Finnish Heritage Agency. The

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An inscription on the Temple of Delphi says: "Know thyself, and thou wilt know the universe and the gods." It is only one sentence,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com- When early Stone Age farmers first moved into Europe from the Near East about 8,000 years ago, they met and began mixing with the

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - Stonehenge is an astonishingly complex monument, which attracts attention mostly for its spectacular megalithic circle and "horseshoe," built around 2600 B.C. Over the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One can imagine losing a wallet, suitcase, shoe, or even some clothes, but how can an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus end up abandoned on

 A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Björketorp Runestone in Blekinge, Sweden, is part of a burial ground with menhirs standing alone and forming stone circles. Dated to about 400-700

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

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

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Lancaster University staff and student researchers have discovered evidence of a Romano-Celtic temple under public land near Lancaster Castle - only the second

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at Leicester Cathedral have finished the excavation project and reported discovering an ancient Roman shrine and over 1,100 burials. The archaeological project

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Generally speaking, one must say that all Viking boat burials are rare because most of the notable burial finds throughout the Viking world

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Manannán mac Lir (or Manann) - "son of the sea") - is a sea god in Irish mythology and the Welsh tradition; his

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study by an international and interdisciplinary team headed by University of Freiburg archaeologist Dr. Ralph Araque Gonzalez from the Faculty of Humanities

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland's religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge. A combination of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in France have found one of the first residential sites belonging to the prehistoric builders of some of Europe's first monumental stone