Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – About 2,000 years ago, a Roman man tried to clean a well and lost a sandal. The well-preserved ancient shoe was discovered during archaeological excavations at Lucus Asturum (modern-day Lugo de Llanera in Asturias, northern
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Contemporary humans carry in their cells a small amount of DNA derived from Neanderthals and Denisovans. “Denny,” a 90,000-year-old fossil individual, recently identified as the daughter of a Denisovan father and a Neanderthal mother, bears
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, scientists have traced the history of migrations between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A magnificent Bronze Age treasure has been discovered in Switzerland. The adventure started when Franz Zahn examined a freshly harvested carrot field in Güttingen with his metal detector. When he found several Middle Bronze Age
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When you look at the painting, you may not notice it immediately, but once you examine the artwork closer, you can see something “different” there. A new study suggests this 15th-century French painting does depict
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For thousands of years, beavers had a big influence on the Dutch ecosystem and the people that lived there. This is the conclusion of research by archaeologist Nathalie Brusgaard. The rodents were used for food,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For many people, seaweed holds a reputation as a superfood, heralded for its health benefits and sustainability. Still, it appears our European ancestors were ahead of the game and were consuming the nutrient-rich plant for
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study describes “a missing law of nature,” recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world’s workings. In essence, the new law states that complex natural systems evolve to states
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Pioneering early farmers who arrived on the Baltic coast 6,000 years ago may have taken up fishing after observing indigenous hunter-gatherer communities, a major new study has found. Early Neolithic bog pot from Olvig Mose
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Many years ago, a large granite boulder was found in Ireland. It is one of many intriguing ancient stones in the country, except that this one poses a true prehistoric mystery. The prehistoric boulder is
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have used gold impurities in silver coins and lead pollution in Greenland ice to show that the Romans were early pioneers of recycling. Extracting silver from ores and refining it at mints resulted in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The boat is not ancient, but the discovery is truly incredible. While working on a drainage problem to ease the flooding problem in the area, construction workers discovered a nearly intact, wooden 19th-century boat hidden
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – While documenting fossil tracksites along a stretch of Lake Powell, a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) field crew discovered the first tritylodontid bonebed found in the Navajo Sandstone in Utah. These
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows that at this time Neanderthals were already carrying human DNA from a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An interesting archaeological discovery has been made in Finland. In Salo Perttel, near the Medieval stone church, scientists have discovered a previously unknown burial site from the time of the Crusades. The cemetery came to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – With its low amounts of rain and soaring high temperatures, the Sahara Desert is often regarded as one of Earth’s most extreme and least habitable environments. Cross-section showing how a foggara or qanat works. An upward sloping tunnel is
