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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study reveals that Nerja is the European cave containing Paleolithic Art with the most confirmed and recurrent visits during prehistory. For
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering land bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An unusual blinking fish, the mudskipper, spends much of the day out of the water and provides clues as to how and why
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early human foragers may have relied on eating the partially digested vegetable matter, called digesta, found in the stomachs and digestive tracts of
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are so many striking historical similarities between Ivar the Boneless and Ímar that some scholars suggest these two Vikings were the same
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This isn't the first time the price of eggs has skyrocketed. During the mid-19th-century gold rush, San Francisco's population ballooned from around 800
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd– AncientPages.com – It’s difficult to say where we can find traces of the world’s oldest civilization because many ancient underwater ruins still await our discovery. There
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recently declared a treasure, it takes one look to realize this Bronze Age ring is unusual. The ancient gold ring was found by
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - We now know more about the diet of a prehistoric creature that grew up to two and a half meters long and
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed for the first time by scientists
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Some things are not always what they appear to be, and sometimes the answer to a mystery can be a real surprise. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A group of metal detectorists examining a field near the Viking castle Fyrkat have discovered two remarkable treasures. The two Viking treasures were
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Polynesian peoples are renowned for their advanced sailing technology and for reaching the most remote islands on the planet centuries before the Europeans
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar, a device that uses radio waves to map out what lies below the surface of the ground, have discovered
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There are places where you can literally "feel" you're moving back in time. One such place is Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. Built
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Maya produced some of the most durable lime plasters on Earth, yet how this was achieved remains a secret. With its magnificent
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We encounter Hervör in the Saga of Hervör and Heidrek, which originates from the thirteenth century and combines elements from several older sagas.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An almost 1,000-year-old Native American canoe has been recovered from Lake Waccamaw in southeastern North Carolina, United States. The canoe was accidentally discovered
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In Vinoř, an area on the outskirts of Prague, Czech Republic, a mysterious 7,000-year-old circular structure has fascinated archaeologists for many years. Scientists
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - You never know when and where you'll find something of archaeological value do you? Some people can come across priceless ancient treasures without
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team led by the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, has successfully completed the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The coastal town of Exmouth in Western Australia is due to experience one of the most spectacular astronomical phenomena on April 20 2023—a total solar eclipse.
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How much do we know about the Neolithic lifestyle? According to a Professor, the stereotypical view of how Neolithic men and women lived is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the Casas de Turuñuelo archeological site in Guareña, Badajoz, Spain, have unearthed five remarkable life-sized stone busts that reveal for
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have been interested in El Mirón cave for a long time, and over the years, many fascinating finds have been reported from
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cupid/Eros is no doubt the most popular of all the Greek gods. Eros's Roman counterpart is Cupid. We believe we know the genesis of
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Something as simple as a grass can fundamentally change the understanding of life in the prehistoric world. Studies published in the journal Science document the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historical records have long suggested that Medieval Norse colonists on Greenland (AD 985–1450) relied on imported materials such as iron and wood. Until
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered the buried remains of a Roman fortlet that once stood next to the Antonine Wall in West Dunbartonshire, the frontier
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Codex Atlanticus is one of the most extensive and fascinating collections of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and writings. Its preservation is a
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - About 100 to 66 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, the climate was warmer than the present. Many new species appeared
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Geology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Through global-scale seismic imaging, scientists have discovered massive ancient ocean floor surrounds the Earth's core. Near this dense, thin, sunk ocean floor,
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncietPages.com - We don't know what it was or how it happened. According to newspapers and journals, it suddenly 'arrived' quickly from the West and did
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - If you could travel back 100,000 years in time, you'd find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals,
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Vikings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings occupied Greenland from roughly 985 to 1450, farming and building communities before abandoning their settlements and mysteriously vanishing. Why they disappeared has
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DNA
AncientPages.com - Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilizations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent. We have now shed more light
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Recent excavations at the Villa of the Quintilii uncovered the remains of a unique winery just outside Rome. The mid-third-century CE building located along the Via Appia Antica portrays a
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Several beautiful Bronze Age and Medieval artifacts unearthed in Wales, UK, have been declared a treasure. Four magnificent objects were discovered across Wrexham,
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - The 300 million-year-old Tully monster is one of the weirdest animals scientists have encountered. Researchers have previously said that the ancient animal
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleolithic people living in very cold environments depended on tight-fitting garments to survive. What tools and techniques were used to produce such clothing
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000
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