A 900-Year-Old Crusader Sword Discovered Off The HaCarmel Coast, Israel
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – About 900 years ago a crusader knight who was present in the Holy Land lost a magnificent sword. Today, we can admire this precious ancient artifact that gives us the opportunity to travel back in time and a catch glimpse of important historical moments. On October 16, 2021, Shlomi Katzin […]
World’s Oldest Depiction Of A Ghost Discovered On 3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Unlike many other ancient civilizations, people in believed something unpleasant was awaiting the deceased on the other site. Our knowledge about the Mesopotamian afterlife beliefs comes from literary texts recorded on cuneiform clay tablets. Based on this historical information, scientists have learned that people in Mesopotamia considered the Underworld a gloomy, […]
Can Peptide Droplets Explain The Emergence Of The First Living Organisms On Earth?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by two researchers in Japan to represent the evolution of chemistry into biology. “Chemical evolution was first proposed in the 1920s as the idea that life first originated with the formation […]
Ancient Mystery Of The Village Where All Residents Vanished Overnight
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There are many ghost towns and villages worldwide, and they all have their exciting history. Among them is one particular story that is different due to the unexplained events that occurred in this place. People do vanish, and we all know that, but how can an entire community disappear without […]
Dramatic Life Story Of Queen Marie Antoinette Executed By Guillotine During The French Revolution
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Marie Antoinette is today known as the French Queen, executed by the guillotine during the French Revolution. Much has been said and written about her, and modern historians agree her life was a mixture of pleasure and genuine horror. There is no doubt Marie Antoinette was beautiful when she was […]
Artificial Intelligence Reveals The Out Of Africa Expansion Is More Complex Than Previously Thought
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers from Estonia and Italy developed an innovative method by combining neural networks and statistics. Using this newly developed method, they refined the “Out of Africa” scenario. The researchers claimed that the African dynamics around the time of the Out of Africa expansion are more complex than previously thought. Archaeologists […]
Startling 3,000-Year-Old Gold Bowl Decorated With A Sun Motif Discovered Is A Truly Unique Artifact
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A Polish archaeologist has made the find of a lifetime discovering a startling 3,000-year-old gold bowl decorated with a sun motif. The ancient bowl was unearthed by dig director Dr. Michał Sip and his team at a prehistoric settlement used as a place of worship in Ebreichsdorf, Austria. It was found […]
Early Homo Sapiens From Southeast Asia Could Adapt To A Rainforest Environment
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Traditional ᴀssumptions have often seen tropical rainforests as a barrier to early Homo sapiens. However, growing proof shows that humans adapted to and lived in tropical rainforest habitats of Southeast Asia. Some researchers also suggest that, in the past, other human species, like Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis, became extinct because they could not […]
142,000-Year-Old Shell Beads Found In A Cave Are The Oldest Known Evidence Of Human Communication
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The necklace, nametag, earrings or uniform you chose to put on this morning might say more than you realize about your social status, job or some other aspect of your idenтιтy. Anthropologists say humans have been doing this — finding ways to communicate about themselves without the fuss of conversation […]
Mystery Of Giant Gogmagog’s Hidden Treasure Beneath Castell Dinas Bran
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Like most ancient castles in Wales, the Medieval castle Castell Dinas Bran is rich in history and surrounded by a flair for mysticism. Located high above the small town of Llangollen, on the top of a great mountain, Castell Dinas Bran is also referred to as the Crow City Castle. The […]