Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Democracy is widely understood to have arisen in the Mediterranean world about 2,500 years ago before spreading through cultural contact to other parts of the globe. But new research from the University of Georgia Laboratory

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In 1347, the plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle East, and northern

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An artificial intelligence tool has spotted changes in flints from a 1-million-year-old ancient human site called Evron Quarry in Israel. A closer examination reveals this is a significant discovery showing ancient humans used fire almost

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Chickens are the world’s most numerous domestic animal. In order to understand when, where, and how they first became associated with human societies, we critically assessed the domestic status of chicken remains described in >600

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  – A tomb of an upper-class female from the late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) has been excavated at the Taosibei cemetery site in Xiangfen county of North China’s Shanxi province. The tomb belongs to

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists at the University of Southampton have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over 10m long and lived around 125 million years ago. Several prehistoric bones,

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While investigating the Three Bridge Mill located near the village of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, UK scientists discovered an early Roman rare wooden carved figure. Initially, the researchers thought it was just a degraded piece of wood.

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The spread of the grain from East Asia to Central Europe has been reconstructed by researchers at Kiel University. People were already living in a globalized world 3,500 years ago. That is the conclusion of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Countless ships have gone under since man took to the water. Many shipwrecks have never been found and their precise location has since been lost to history. Some of the most famous shipwrecks have yet to be discovered.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An Egyptian-American team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new kind of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur, or theropod, from a celebrated fossil site in Egypt’s Sahara Desert. Reconstruction of the ecosystem of the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Wallacean islands have always been separated from Asia and Oceania by deep-sea waters. Yet, these tropical islands were a corridor for modern humans migrating into the Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea landmass (Sahul) and have been

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient toilets and trash pits are like heaven to archaeologists. They might not have the glamor of a gleaming medieval jewel or intricate Roman mosaic, but they brim with clues about the everyday life of

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have found that a tool, dubbed the “stone Swiss Army knife” of prehistory, was made to look the same in enormous numbers across great distances and multiple biomes in southern Africa. This indicates early