Latest
Fossils
AncientPages.com - Palaeontology is the study of evolution and prehistoric life, usually preserved as fossils in rocks. It combines aspects of geology with biology and many other scientific disciplines. But
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A tip from the local population had led the archaeologists from Frankfurt to the area near the city of Ibra in Oman, where
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were both innovative and often devised similar surviving techniques independently. Recently, scientists demonstrated Neanderthals invented or developed birch
Read More
Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person’s visual perspective is a complex skill
Read More
Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Every so often, life on Earth steps onto a nearly empty playing field and faces a spectacular opportunity. Something major changes—in the atmosphere
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at Netherhampton Road, on the edge of Harnham, a southern suburb of Salisbury, England have unearthed a giant Bronze Age barrow
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia's eastern islands in rock art paintings that may provide the
Read More
Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One of Australia's first long-distance walkers has been described after Flinders University paleontologists used advanced 3D scans and other technology to take
Read More
Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. Raucous texts—mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences
Read More
Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers have confirmed that 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones discovered more than 30 years ago are the oldest of their kind ever
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birch tar is the oldest synthetic substance made by early humans, and those humans were in the long past - Neanderthals. But the
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stone Age humans may have made extended maritime voyages on the Caspian Sea, according to a new study published in the journal Open Archaeology.
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two ancient shipwrecks, most likely dated to the mid-Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), were discovered about 1,500 meters under the sea level in South China Sea,
Read More
Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has shown that humans may have evolved a spring-like arch to help us walk on two feet. Researchers studying the
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague—the oldest evidence of
Read More
Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – History has taught us that people have, on certain occasions, done bizarre things. Depending on the circumstances and mental state of mind, it
Read More
DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of our species is a fascinating and complicated subject. Scientists often discuss our long-gone relatives, the Neanderthals, and some studies attempt
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Petroglyphs and drawings in Gobustan are among the most ancient rock galleries in the world. They show many aspects of everyday life, customs, and
Read More
News
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - A new paper from the University of Bristol rewrites the history of the darkest, most bizarre event in the history of paleontology.
Read More
Celtic Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Morgan le Fay – a heroine in Arthurian traditions – is associated with a threatening and intriguing female character. She is a priestess, sorceress
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, have unearthed two stunning embalming workshops. During a press conference, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Urnes brooch is beautiful and eye-striking. Archaeologists have unearthed many Urnes-style brooches in Norway, and scientists say this type of jewelry was
Read More
Celtic Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An ancient myth says that at the beginning of time, there was a legendary king of the Picts, Cruithne (from the Gaelic word: 'An Cruithain'
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one's role in society belongs in the past. But was
Read More
Artifacts
AncientPages.com - [… who s]aw the Deep, […] the country, [who] knew […], […] all […] [… who] saw the Deep, […] the country, [who] knew […], […]
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For at least three million years, knapping stone has been practiced by hominin societies large and small, past and present. Thus, understanding knapping,
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A research team led by the University of Cambridge say it is the oldest example we have of this diarrhea-causing parasite infecting humans
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) makes a new technological appraisal of a northern gannet bone that displays complex
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have identified, for the first time, the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of
Read More
Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Approximately 200 million years ago, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa, India, and Australia in a single "supercontinent" called Gondwana. Paleontologists have
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have unearthed what could be the world's oldest known saddle. The well-preserved soft leather saddle recovered from the tomb of a female
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Not so long ago, the public was invited to participate in the Carlisle Roman bath excavation. The project, run by Wardell Armstrong, Cumberland
Read More
DNA
AncientPages.com - Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The medieval trading center of Rungholt, which is today located in the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage Site and currently the focus of
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When most researchers looked at a puzzling group of artifacts discovered at French archaeological sites, they presumed these to be ornaments or clothing.
Read More
Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A trip back through time in Alberta offers evidence to bolster a recent study suggesting non-avian dinosaurs were already waning over the 10 million
Read More
Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The gold bust of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius is so precious it has only been displayed a dozens of times and never in
Read More
News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you look at enough dinosaur fossils, you'll see that their skulls sport an amazing variety of bony ornaments, ranging from the horns
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This fragment of a fine marble statuette of Heracles, about half a meter high, that was discovered a few years ago at Horbat
Read More
DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Multiple burials of possible women warriors have been unearthed in sites associated with the Scythians, Sauromatians (a tribe nation ruled by women), and Sarmatians.
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is not the first time Betej Gabriel, an amateur archaeologist from Gorj in Romania, has made an incredible find using his metal
Read More
