Evidence Of Increased Violence When The First Mesopotamian Cities Were Built
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized administration, trade and culture then caused the ratio of violent deaths to fall back again in the Early and Middle Bronze Age (3,300 to 1,500 BCE). This […]
Ancient Maya Reservoirs Can Solve Today’s Water Crises – Scientists Say
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There is much to be learned from many ancient civilizations. Ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water, ‘can serve as archetypes for natural, sustainable water systems to address future water needs,’ according to a new study. Tikal, Grand Plaza. Credit: Adobe Stock – Matyas […]
Intriguing Beautiful Medieval Key Discovered In Claverham Village, UK
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This beautiful little key was recently recovered by our Kemble field team from a Newland Homes site near Claverham, North Somerset. Medieval key from Court De Wyck. Image source The excavation was situated immediately adjacent to the former location of a medieval manor house, Court De Wyck. During the fieldwork, the researchers we uncovered a series […]
Medieval Manor Of Court De Wyck – Re-Discovered
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Earlier this year our Kemble fieldwork team undertook a small excavation at the edge of Claverham village, North Somerset, for Newland Homes. The excavation area was immediately adjacent to the 19th-century manor house of Court De Wyck, intending to uncover evidence for the former medieval manor of the same name. Will and Beth record the […]
Diver Says He Found Mysterious Underwater Ancient Tomb, Ruins And Artifacts Of An Unknown Advanced Civilization
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Not all archaeological discoveries reach the press. There are intriguing finds made by people who did not report their curious discoveries to the media or authorities. They later revealed their findings to family members, friends, or some researchers who wrote about these astonishing archaeological discoveries in books. In such cases, […]
Discovery Of Half-Million-Year-Old Wooden Structure Shows We’re Wrong To Underestimate Our Ancient Relatives
AncientPages.com – To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In today’s fast changing world, older technologies, even those from a few years ago, are often described dismissively as “Stone Age.” Such terms serve to disconnect us from […]
Extraordinary Archaeological Discovery In Spain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new decorated stela has been found in context, in the 3000-year-old funerary complex of Las Capellanías, in Cañaveral de León (Huelva, south-west of Spain). It is thought that late prehistoric stelae in Iberia were created to commemorate important personages. Durham University Archaeology students have been part of an extraordinary archaeological discovery […]
Expressive Beautiful And Celebrated Bowls Created By Mimbres Artisans From Distant Past
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – For nearly 1100 years, in the area of the present state of New Mexico, in the mountains of Mogollon, lived a tribe of the Ancestral Mogollon people (Mimbres), one of the significant prehistoric Southwestern cultural divisions, whose lands stretched north of the Gila forest, west into Arizona, and south into […]
Evidence Of The Biggest Ever Solar Storm 14,300 Years Ago – Found In Ancient Tree Rings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analyzing ancient tree-rings found in the French Alps. Tree rings of a buried subfossil tree in the Drouzet river. Image credit: Cécile Miramont The radiocarbon spike was caused by a mᴀssive solar […]
Darwin Or Kimura? Natural Selection Or Pure Chance? New Attempt To Clarify A Heated Debate
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Some of nature’s mysteries have kept scientists busy for decades—for example, the processes that drive evolution. The question of whether certain differences between and within species are caused by natural selection or by chance processes divides evolutionary biologists even today. Now, an international team of researchers has teased apart a […]