Earliest Evidence Of Wine Consumption In The Americas Found In Caribbean
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found what they believe to be the earliest known evidence of wine drinking in the Americas, inside ceramic artifacts recovered from a small Caribbean island. Forty ceramic sherds were examined in the first study to have used molecular analysis techniques—Gas Chromatography and Mᴀss Spectrometry—to investigate 15th century pottery […]
A 500-Year-Old Funerary Bundle And Pottery Probably Belonging To Ychsma Culture – Unearthed Near Lima, Peru
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists unearthed a 500-year-old funerary bundle and pottery during work on a natural gas line near Lima’s central coastline. The bundle, wrapped in mats and tied with ropes arranged in a geometric pattern, is thought to belong to the Ychsma culture. The tomb contains remains, offerings, and the funerary bundle […]
X-Ray Images Reveal Hidden Text On Ancient ‘Cursed’ Mount Ebal Tablet
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – About 40 years ago, an ancient tablet was found on Mount Ebal, close to the city of Nablus and roughly 50 kilometers north of Jerusalem, Israel. Little was known about the tablet then, but the artifact has now undergone x-ray tomographic measurements, and scientists discovered something surprising. XCT reconstruction of the […]
A Giant New Species Of Long-Necked Herbivorous Dinosaur Discovered By Argentine Paleontologists
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of Argentine paleontologists discovered a new herbivorous species of giant dinosaurs that lived about 90 million years ago. A team of Argentine paleontologists find giant fossil remains of herbivorous dinosaur. Image credit: La Nación (GDA) This gigantic animal lived in the forests with lakes and lagoons that were […]
Incredible 700-Year-Old Tombs With Beautiful Decorations And Carved Bricks Found In Shandong, China
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the province of Shandong, China, have unearthed 12 incredible tombs estimated to be around 700 years old. It is one of the most important finds ever made in the eastern Chinese province. According to experts, the tombs date back to the last years of the Yuan Dynasty […]
Human Ancestry Has Been Shaped By Mixing And Matching Alleles – New Study
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to gene flow between individuals from different populations. Admixture results in a blending of genetic lineages, leading to increased genetic diversity within populations. In addition to admixture among […]
Dark And Light Sides Of Pax Romana: Great Political Slogan Introduced After Civil Wars
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Pax Romana (“Roman Peace”) was a political slogan of great importance. It was introduced after the civil wars but not immediately after the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. The map depicts the Roman Empire in 117 C.E., at the height of the Pax Romana. Image credit: ushistory.org The “Roman Peace” […]
Who Was Shimon, Whose Name Appears On A 2,000-Year-old Hebrew Inscription?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In excavations carried out on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the City of David, within the Jerusalem Walls National Park, and funded by the City of David Foundation, a small fragment of a stone tablet was discovered, bearing an inscription that was produced for financial purposes. PH๏τography: Kobi Harati, […]
Roman Shipwreck Carrying Enormous, Rare Cargo Of 1,800-Year-Old Marble Artifacts Found
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An enormous, rare cargo of 1,800-year-old marble artifacts, borne in a merchant ship that was shipwrecked in a storm, was uncovered in the coastal waters of Moshav Beit Yanai, north of Netanya. This is the oldest sea cargo of its kind known in the Eastern Mediterranean, composed of Corinthian capitals […]
Mystery Of Ancient Vanishing Lakes In South Africa Solved?
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New evidence for the presence of ancient lakes in some of the most arid regions of South Africa suggests that Stone Age humans may have been more widespread across the continent than previously thought. Research jointly led by the University of Leicester argues that more archaeological work in the […]