Varggrottan: Mysterious ‘Wolf Cave’ Was Home To Neanderthals 130,000 Years Ago – Oldest Human Dwelling In Scandinavia
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In Finland, many unexplored ancient caves hold many secrets. One of them is called Varggrottan, which means Wolf Cave in English. When archaeologists explored the mysterious cave, they found several artifacts that suggest this place was home to Neanderthals 130,000 years ago. The entrance to the Wolf Cave – Varggrottand. […]
Underground Hellenistic Necropolis With Tombs With Frescoes, Reliefs Unearthed In Naples, Italy
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The underground of the city of Naples has no doubt many undiscovered secrets. The remains of the ancient necropolis of Neapolis- located about 10 m below the current street level at the Health District – represent one of them. The Greeks built it between the end of the fourth and the […]
Human Ancestors Preferred Mosaic Landscapes And High Ecosystem Diversity – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study published in the journal Science by an international team finds that early human species adapted to mosaic landscapes and diverse food resources, which would have increased our ancestor’s resilience to past shifts in climate. Artist illustration of hominins arriving in a multi-biome mosaic landscape. Such environments were […]
Sensational Discovery: 300,000-Year-Old SnapsH๏τ – Oldest Human Footprints From Germany Found
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In a study published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, an international research team led by scientists from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment presents the earliest human footprints known from Germany. Potential hominin footprint discovered in Schöningen 13 II-2 Untere Berme. […]
Magnificent 2,000-Year-Old Treasure Found In Wales Could Point To An Unknown Roman Settlement
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Several magnificent Iron Age, Roman, and post-Medieval artifacts found in Monmouthshire, a county in the southeast of Wales, have been declared a treasure. According to experts, some Roman finds could suggest a previously undiscovered settlement in the area. The Llantrisant ox bowl handle was excavated. Credit: National Museum Wales Metal […]
70,000 Years Ago Something Happened That May Solve The Enduring Mystery Of Language Evolution
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have tried to solve the enduring mystery of language evolution, and it seems something that happened 70,000 years ago may shed light on this ancient enigma. According to the hypothesis called Romulus and Remus and coined by Dr. Vyshedskiy, a neuroscientist from Boston University, A genetic mutation that slowed […]
Giants Of The Jurᴀssic Seas Were Twice The Size Of A Killer Whale – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than 20 years ago, the BBC’s “Walking with Dinosaurs” TV documentary series showed a 25-meter-long Liopleurodon. This sparked heated debates over the size of this pliosaur as it was thought to have been wildly overestimated and more likely to have only reached an adult size of just over six meters […]
7,000-Year-Old Underwater Road Discovered In Adriatic Sea Off Korcula Island
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Visitors to the beautiful island of Korcula, the supposed birthplace of Marco Polo in Croatia, can admire wonderful dense pine forests, beautiful buildings, small squares, and marvelous monuments in the medieval Old town. As the sixth-largest Adriatic island, Korcula is a popular tourist attraction, but the island has more to […]
Copper Artifacts Reveal Changing Connections In Prehistoric Europe
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The geochemistry of copper artifacts reveals changes in distribution networks across prehistoric Europe, according to a study published May 10, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jan Piet Brozio of Kiel University, Germany, and colleagues. Copper axe from Frömkenberg (Germany) in the Scanning Electron Microscope of the Insтιтute […]
Silent Witnesses: Further Dark Secrets Of Batavia Shipwreck – Uncovered
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – “The loss of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia in 1629 on the Houtman Abrolhos off the west coast of Australia and subsequent mutiny is one of the most dramatic events in the history of European encounters with Australia, and was widely popularized in 17th-century publications,” write researchers in their […]