Unique Pig-Shaped Figurine Found In East China Was Probably A Child’s Toy 6,000-Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A unique hog-shaped pottery item – probably a child’s toy approximately 6,000 years ago, was unearthed in east China’s Jiangsu Province. The pottery pig was found during excavations at a Neolithic site of the Ma’an Relics in the city of Wuxi. This pH๏τo taken on June 2, 2023 shows the pottery […]
1,700-Year-Old Statue OF Greek God Pan Unearthed In Istanbul
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A fragment of a statue depicting the Greek god Pan, has been unearthed during the excavations in Istanbul’s Saraçhane Archaeological Park. It is a new artifact recently discovered in this area of archaerological excavations that restarted tby he Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s Heritage Department in June 2022. A fragment of the statue of Pan, the Greek […]
Three Roman Shipwrecks Discovered Off Tunisian Coast – One Is 2,000-Year-Old
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It’s impossible to say how many ancient shipwrecks can be found throughout the Mediterranean. Many civilizations, such as Egyptians, Phoenicians, Romans, and Greeks, were constantly present in the Mediterranean, either trading and exploring or they were engaged in marine battles. One of the new shipwrecks discovered on the Skerki Bank. […]
Humans Used Shells As Body Ornaments 30,000 Years Ago – Discovery In Malaga’s Cueva de Ardales Reveals
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered that shells were essential to our ancient ancestors on several occasions. Shells are one of the oldest ways humans have adorned and expressed themselves, with examples of deliberately-collected shell ᴀssemblages at human sites dating as far back as 160,000 years ago found across North Africa, South Africa, […]
Huge Rare Runestone Found Under The Kitchen Floor In Randers Investigated
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A couple in Denmark found a huge runestone under the floor while renovating the kitchen in their house in the village Mosekær just outside the city of Randers. Experts are currently examining the rune stone, but there is no doubt it is a great historical and archaeological find that is […]
Medieval Music Wasn’t Only Supposed To Be Beautiful To Listen To – A New Study Suggests
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Medieval religious music is often perceived as being simple, and not particularly flashy or lavish. It often had a function that goes beyond simply being pleasant to listen to, says a University of Oslo researcher. ‘Nuns Convent of the Sacred Heart in Rome’, painted by Karl Bryullov. PH๏τo: Wikiart. “In […]
Newly Discovered Dinosaur, ‘Iani,’ Was Face Of a Changing Planet
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species’ “last gasp” during a period when Earth’s warming climate forced mᴀssive changes to global dinosaur populations. Iani smithi. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez The specimen, named Iani smithi after Janus, the two-faced Roman god of change, was an early ornithopod, a group […]
Incredible Ancient Extinct World Of Unknown Organisms Discovered
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Newly discovered biomarker signatures point to a whole range of previously unknown organisms that dominated complex life on Earth about a billion years ago. They differed from complex eukaryotic life as we know it, such as animals, plants and algae in their cell structure and likely metabolism, which was […]
Ancient Genomes Suggest Farming In Africa Was Ignited By Oversea-Migrants From Iberia 7,400 Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from Morocco in northwest Africa revealed that food production was introduced by Neolithic European and Levantine migrants and then adopted by local groups. A research team from Sweden, Spain and Morocco present their results in Nature on June 7th. View of the site […]
Surprising Discovery Of Oldest Decoratively Carved Wood In Britain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It was a chance discovery. The piece of wood could have easily gone onto the bonfire or been treated as trash. Luckily, Derek Fawcett, landowner, and retired urological surgeon, decided to take a closer look at the wood. The Boxford Timber discovered in Berkshire. At more than 6,000 years old, […]