Evidence Americas’ Oldest Mine In Wyoming Was Used By Paleoindians 13,000 Years Ago Has Been Found!
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeological excavations led by Wyoming’s state archaeologist and involving University of Wyoming researchers have confirmed that an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming was used by humans to produce red ocher starting nearly 13,000 years ago. This complete Clovis point was recovered from the Powars II site. Credit: Spencer Pelton That […]
Unique Ancient Artifacts Discovered In Melting Ice Patches In Norway
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One day more than 3,000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. The owner probably considered the shoe to be lost for good, but […]
Huge Unknown Ancient Lost World Discovered Inside Giant Sinkhole In China
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The discovery of a giant sinkhole in China and a huge, ancient unexplored world beyond our feet is extraordinary in many ways. The sinkhole located in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is 630-foot deep, 1,000-foot long, and 490-foot wide. It is one of 30 known sinkholes located in Leye […]
Evidence Europeans Used Slash-And-Burn Methods 9,500 Years Ago For Agriculture Purposes
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As early as 9,500 years ago, people in Europe used slash-and-burn methods to make land usable for agriculture. This is shown by environmental data generated by scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (S-HEP) at the University of Tübingen on the basis of two drill cores from […]
New Study Sheds Light On The Phenomenon Of Female Jewish Slavery And Uncovers Gang Rape In Livorno’s Slave Prison
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Historian Prof. Tamar Herzig, Vice Dean for Research at Entin Faculty of Humanities, exposed previously unknown evidence of organized gang rape of a group of enslaved Jewish girls and women from North Africa in the Italian city of Livorno at the beginning of the 17th century. The rape was organized by […]
Strangest Maps Ever Created – You Have Never Seen Our World Like This!
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In ancient times, people saw the world in a very different way. This collection of maps must be one of the strangest representations of world depictions ever created. Some of these maps are fantasy. As you can see, the shapes of the countries and continents are odd representations of figures […]
A Mission To Alpha Centauri Within A Human Lifetime Has Just Become More Realistic
It will take thousands of years for humanity’s fastestspacecraft to reach even the nearest stars. The BreakthroughInitiatives have been exploring the possibility of reducing this todecades, potentially allowing the…
Uncovering history An ancient 2300yearold tomb in Istanbul revealed a partially cremated body shedding light on centuriesold traditions and practices.
A rare 2,300-year-old tomb in Istanbul holds a partially cremated body A 2,300-year-old brick tomb contains the cremated remains of an individual whose body was likely placed…
Girl’s Ancient Tooth Solves One Of The Biggest Mysteries Of The Denisovans
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Denisovans are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. These ancient humans disappeared about 50,000 years ago. Denisovans are known from few physical remains, and, consequently, most of what is known about them comes from DNA evidence. Credit: Adobe […]
Etruscan City Of Cerveteri With Magnificent House-Like Tombs Decorated With Scenes From Life And Death
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Today, the town of Cerveteri is particularly famous for the numerous Etruscan cemeteries located on the surrounding hills. Etruscan necropolis Cerveteri Rome Province, Italy. Credit: Adobe Stock – Mᴀssimo We know about the Etruscan civilization, after being conquered by Rome, thanks to its tombs that exist in mᴀssive necropolises outside […]