Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The discovery of a spectacular fossil site in Argentina is helping shed new light on life at the end of the Cretaceous, the time period just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. Overview of the
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The ancient city of Susa (modern-day Shush, Khuzestan Province, Iran) remains one of the world’s oldest cities. It has been continuously inhabited since about 4200 BC (or even 5000 BC). It is one of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Mona Lisa is an eternal masterpiece that has now given up a secret. Using X-rays and infrared spectroscopy to analyze the chemical composition of da Vinci’s paint mixture, scientists in France
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Rats in the kitchen. Typically that implies issues with cleanliness and safety. But in medieval Japan, having rats in the kitchen could suggest an entirely different meaning. Such is the case with “The Illustrated Rat’s
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have used 3D scanning to investigate inscriptions carved on two groups of Danish runestones, revealing that four stones were likely made in dedication to a powerful Viking Queen named Thyra. The study reveals who carved
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The fact that Neanderthals were able to make a fire and use it, among other things, for cooking, demonstrates their intelligence. “This confirms our observations and theories from previous studies,” explains Diego Angelucci, archaeologist at
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In 2022, archaeologists made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair was discovered in a woman’s grave in Steinsfeld in Central Franconia in the Ansbach district, Germany. Examinations of the woman’s skeleton showed she
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have revealed that a hoard of coins buried in a small pot, just discovered in Glencoe, Scotland, paints a fascinating picture of life for one Highland clan chief and his household. The coins were
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the skin of this dangerous carnivore, a new study has shown for the first time. Excavations at Einhornhöhle (Unicorn Cave) in the Harz Mountains (Lower Saxony, Germany) in 2019
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Translating ancient texts, filling in missing parts of clay tablets: articles are often popping up about the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence for researching documents in the oldest scripts. Credit: Trustees of the British Museum
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Italy could hardly believe their eyes when they opened a mysterious ancient chamber tomb in the municipality of Giugliano in Campania, near Naples. An exterior shot of the recently-discovered chamber tomb near Naples.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New imaging and scientific investigations by a team including a King’s College London academic has found traces of the original paint used to decorate the Parthenon Sculptures, revealing they were once in fact brightly colored.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have been excavating at the Celtic settlement in Samborowice (Silesia) for a significant number of years, This year, a number of intriguing finds were made, and one of the most special ones is a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Vikings are often depicted as crude barbarians running around yelling and waving with swords, but there are many reasons we should reconsider whether this is an accurate picture. We have heard it all before. The
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – People who carry three gene variants inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study co-led by UCL researchers. The findings, published in Communications Biology, are the latest findings
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized administration, trade and culture then caused the ratio of violent deaths to
