Ancient Wooden ‘Coptic Dolls’ May Have Been The Ancestors Of Today’s Barbie Dolls
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For as long as anyone can remember, children loved to play with various toys, but kids living a long time ago did not have parents who could walk into a shop and buy something entertaining. Yet, there is archaeological evidence our ancestors did take the time to carve and build […]
Mysterious Tiny 1,400-Year-Old Gold Foil Figures Found In Pagan Temple
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As many as 35 beautiful 1,400-year-old gold figures were discovered at a site where a Pagan temple was once located outside Lillehammer, Norway. They are the size of a fingernail and thin as paper, often square, and stamped with a motif. Usually, they depict a man and a woman in […]
Can Pollen Analysis Solve The Ice Age Mystery How And When Homo Sapiens Migrated Across Europe And Asia?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have long tried to solve a complicated Ice Age mystery, and they now suggest pollen analysis may be the answer to this enigma. When and how did the flow of Homo sapiens in Eurasia happen? Did a cold snap or a warming spell drive early human movement from Africa […]
16-Million-Year-Old Spider Fossil Is The Largest Ever Found In Australia
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Found at McGraths Flat, NSW, a fossil site known for its iron-rich rock called “goethite,” the new genus of spider is the first ever spider fossil of the Barychelidae family to be found. The discovery was made by a team of Australian scientists led by Australian Museum (AM) and University of New South Wales […]
Remarkable Early Medieval ‘Govan Warrior’ Stone Discovered In Glasgow, Scotland
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists made a remarkable new find during an archaeological dig at Govan Old Churchyard in Glasgow, Scotland. Led by y the University of Glasgow’s Professor Stephen Driscoll and Clyde Archaeology, the research team uncovered an early Medieval carved stone of a warrior figure. Scientists say the stone is quite unlike […]
Cuneiform Tablet With New Indo-European Language Discovered In The Capital Of The Hitтιтes
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Boğazköy-Hattusha in north-central Turkey have discovered a new Indo-European language. This was once the capital of the Hitтιтe Empire, one of the great powers of Western Asia, during the Late Bronze Age (1650 to 1200 BC). At this excavation site at the […]
Surprising Discovery Of Box Filled With Neanderthal Bones From Cova Simanya Donated To Museum
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many years ago, in 1986, the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia in Spain received a box. The gift was a donation from amateur paleontologist Miguel Aznar, who, back in the late 1970s, had collected bones and several artifacts in a cave known as Cova Simanya, located in a park just outside […]
What Is The Meaning Of Ankh – Ancient Egyptian Symbol
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Different people have different religions. Each religion has its symbols and characteristic signs. Egyptian Ankh. Image credit: Nachbarnebenan – Public Domain Just as the symbol of Christianity has become the cross, known in several variants, and before it was a fish sign, so is the Ankh, a symbol of the ancient religion […]
Ancient Human Remains Buried In Spanish Caves Were Subsequently Manipulated And Utilized
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Caves served as sites for burial and later modification of human remains for thousands of years in the Iberian Peninsula, according to a new study. The use of caves as burial sites is a cultural phenomenon with a broad distribution in both space and time. In the southern Iberian Peninsula, this practice became particularly […]
Brochs: Ingeniously Engineered Windowless Iron Age Structures Of Atlantic Scotland
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Already three centuries ago (in 1726), John Toland wrote that brochs or the so-called ‘Pictish Towers’ “are apt all over Scotland to make everything Pictish, whose origin they do not know.’ Broch in Dun Carloway. Image credit: Morris R. Maciver – CC BY-SA 2.5 It is estimated that at least seven […]