Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Core samples taken from a stand of old growth Douglas-fir trees in the South Beach area just south of Newport showed reduced growth following the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the Pacific Northwest

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Two hundred fifty-two million years ago, much of life on planet Earth was dying. In an event that marked the end of the Permian period, more than 96 percent of the planet’s marine species and

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Native Americans who occupied the area known as Poverty Point in northern Louisiana more than 3,000 years ago long have been believed to be simple hunters and gatherers. But new Washington University in St.

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Medieval manuscript fragments discovered in Bristol that tell part of the story of Merlin the magician, one of the most famous characters from Arthurian legend, have been identified by academics from the Universities of Bristol

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Beer has been a popular beverage for as long as anyone can remember. Ancient people enjoyed beer just as much as many of us do today. A roughly 5,000-year-old cuneiform stone tablet that has been

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.om – The controversial ruler Boris Godunov (1552–1605) has unwillingly become an unpopular character in Russian history. His biography is full of ambiguities and gaps. Some have attributed non-existing names to him, others have blamed him for

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New archeological research highlights major blind spots in Australia’s environmental management policies, placing submerged Indigenous heritage at risk. The study area relative to the main terrestrial and offshore regions of Australia, based on state and marine

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A continuous rise in the global population has led to fears that conflicts and war will become more frequent as resources dwindle. But this widespread belief has not been quantified based on actual Japanese archaeological

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -Researchers undertook a zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of the Neanderthal Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), some 76,000 years old, whose results indicate that these Neanderthals mainly hunted large bovids and cervids. Fauna remains.

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in France have unearthed hundreds of exceptional Bronze Age artifacts that were most likely offerings. The still-well-preserved 3,00-year-old artifacts include jewelry and weapons that were found at the prehistoric site in Gannat in Allier.

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Codex Telleriano Remensis, created in the 16th century in Mexico, depicts earthquakes in pictograms that are the first written evidence of earthquakes in the Americas in pre-Hispanic times, according to a pair of researchers

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human movements like migrations and expansions played a major role in driving the spread of cultures and genes in ancient Europe. However, it is only now with detailed regional studies

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered the skeleton of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago. It is a highly significant archaeological discovery because this human lineage has never been found anywhere else in the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists examining the Herculaneum skeletal remains of the victims of Vesuvius that erupted on the morning of August 24, 79 AD, and broke its centuries-long silence. Now, researchers say their study has helped shed new light on

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Israel have made another interesting discovery. This time while excavating in the Ramat Ha-Sharon region, just north of Tel Aviv they have unearthed not only evidence of agricultural-industrial activity dating back 1,500 years

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered an ancient statue of the mythological goddess Hygieia (“Hygiene”, the goddess of cleanliness), who was one of the healing god Asclepius’s children. Hygieia was associated with health in the beliefs of ancient