60-Meter Longhouse Discovered Near Viking Ship At Gjellestad, Norway
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – At Gjellestad in Norway, archaeologists from the Norwegian Insтιтute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) have found a 60-meter longhouse. There is no longer a doubt that Gjellestad, where the same team discovered a Viking ship in 2018, has been a central place in the late Nordic Iron Age. In the […]
Rare Roman Mosaic Depicting The Adventures Of Greek Hero Achilles Discovered In Rutland, UK
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK. A rare Roman mosaic and surrounding villa complex have been protected as a Scheduled Monument by DCMS on the advice of Historic England. The decision follows archaeological work undertaken by a team from University of Leicester Archaeological […]
Beware Of The Shapeshifting Gaelic Bodach Who May Be Difficult To Trick
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – When darkness falls and the days get colder, we gather around the fireplace to embrace the warmth. In the old days, when there were no radiators, the chimney was a treasure that helped survive cold winters. Folklore stories tell the chimney was appreciated and feared because it is also home […]
Ancient Graffiti On Sacred Mountain Reveals Secrets Of North Korea
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The elites of premodern Korea carved their names into rocks in the sacred mountains of Kŭmgangsan for much the same reason that today’s graffiti taggers wield cans of spray paint: reputation and control. And while University of Kansas art historian Maya Stiller notes several important distinctions, her new book, “Carving Status […]
Stunning Gold Jewelry And Artifacts From The Time Of Neferтιтi Found In Bronze Age Tombs In Cyprus
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg have concluded an excavation of two tombs in the Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus. The finds include over 150 human skeletons and nearly 500 objects—including gold jewelry, gemstones, and ceramics—from around 1350 BCE. Egyptian lotus jewelry with inlaid stones (ca. […]
Secret Ancient Knowledge Of Portals Leading To Unknown Realms -The Arrival And Departure – Part 1
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Quantum physicists are exploring Everett’s Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI), according to which several invisible worlds can exist at the same space and time as our own. This fascinating theory suggests our world can be surrounded by countless realms invisible to our naked eye. If such worlds do exist, there must be […]
Mysterious Footprints In Tanzania Made By Early Humans Not Bears
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The oldest unequivocal evidence of upright walking in the human lineage are footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1978, by paleontologist Mary Leakey and her team, dated to 3.7 million years ago. Another set of mysterious footprints was partially excavated at a nearby location, known as site A, in 1976 […]
The Oldest Denisovan Fossils Ever Discovered Shed New Light On Early Hominins As They Spread Across Eurasia
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team, led by researchers from the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and the Max Planck Society, has identified five new human fossils from the key site of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The remains, which include three Denisovans and one Neanderthal, were found in a secure and well […]
Superfood Of Ancient Andeans Reconstructed – What Helped To Fuel The Tiwanaku Civilization 2,500 Years?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What if Indigenous diets could save our politically and ecologically strained planet? The answer may lie in the success of an ancient civilization high in the Andes Mountains, where not much grows. UC Berkeley archaeologists reconstructed the diets of ancient Andeans living around Lake тιтicaca, which straddles Bolivia and Peru […]
Rare Ancient Caribbean Skull Shows Evidence Of Leprosy
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A skull unearthed on an uninhabited Caribbean island is a rare find: It’s one of just a few examples of leprosy identified on a skeleton in the western hemisphere. And it’s the only one that’s been directly dated using radiocarbon, by analyzing a fragment of the skull itself rather than […]