Ancient Coin Reveals Name Of Unknown British Iron Age King – Who Was ‘Esunertos’?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A metal detectorist has made an extraordinary discovery that re-writes the history of ancient Britain. In March this year, after receiving permission from the owner, Lewis Fudge was investigating a field in the Test Valley, Hampshire, UK. Fudge discovered an ancient gold coin that is smaller than a fingernail and […]
Challenging Prehistoric Gender Roles – Women Were Hunters Too – Not Just Men
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It’s a familiar story to many of us: In prehistoric times, men were hunters and women were gatherers. Women were not physically capable of hunting because their anatomy was different from men. And because men were hunters, they drove human evolution. But that story’s not true, according to research by […]
Dingoes Given ‘Almost-Human’ Status In Pre-Colonial Australia – Archaeological Study Finds
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It’s said that a dog is a man’s best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always have been the case though, with new research led by experts at The Australian National University and The University of Western Australia suggesting that dingoes were buried—and […]
Earliest Baltic Amber In Western Europe Found On The Iberian Peninsula 5,000 Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of scientists from the Universities of Granada and Cambridge, as well as the Government of Catalonia, have identified the oldest pieces of Baltic amber ever found on the Iberian Peninsula. The discovery reveals that this luxury material used in jewellery and handicrafts around the world was already being […]
Long-Lost Legendary Ancient Temple Discovered On San Miguel Hill In Mexico
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Locals in the city of Atlixco in central Mexico have long told stories of an ancient temple that once stood on the top of San Miguel Hill before the arrival of the Spaniards and the construction of the current Catholic chapel dedicated to the archangel Michael at the site. However, […]
Major Breakthtrough – Ancient Herculaneum Scroll Deciphered For The First Time
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – After almost 2,000 years, the first full word from the Herculaneum scroll has been deciphered by a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Nebraska. On the morning of August 24, 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii. At the time of the destruction, […]
Roman Coin Hoards Found In The Conwy Valley Declared Treasure
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The two Roman coin hoards were discovered by metal-detectorists David Moss and Tom Taylor in Caerhun Community, Conwy, during the winter of 2018-2019. Larger Roman coin hoard found in ceramic vessel. Credit: Museum Wales The larger hoard (Treasure Case 19.01) was found in a ceramic vessel. It contained 2,733 coins, […]
Paradox Of Stasis – Lizard Study Challenges The Rules Of Evolutionary Biology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. If evolution is always causing things to change, they asked, then how is it that two fossils from the same species, found in the same location, can look identical […]
New Dating Of Intriguing Cave Art Reveals History Of Puerto Rican People
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In the karstic caves of Puerto Rico, cave art paints the rock walls. Previous research has ᴀssigned ages to this art based on the ages of nearby archaeological artifacts within the caves, but these ages are relative and may not reflect the true timing of the art creation. Now, a […]
Unique 2,000-Year-Old Decorated Roman Sandal Lost By Well-Cleaner Found In Spain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – About 2,000 years ago, a Roman man tried to clean a well and lost a sandal. The well-preserved ancient shoe was discovered during archaeological excavations at Lucus Asturum (modern-day Lugo de Llanera in Asturias, northern Spain). Mentioned by astronomer, mathematician, and geographer Ptolemy in his work Geography Lucus Asturum was […]