Hidden Ancient Citadel In The Mayan City Of Tikal Discovered By LIDAR
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have been excavating the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in modern-day Guatemala, since the 1950s—and thanks to those many decades spent documenting details of every structure and cataloging each excavated item, Tikal has become one of the best understood and most thoroughly studied archaeological sites in the […]
The Oseberg Tapestry And Other Artifacts Show Intense Colors Were A Viking Symbol Of Status And Wealth
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – If you were a Viking warrior, you didn’t paint your shield with just any color. Picking the right color was not a matter of taste. It was a decision based on careful selection because the stain revealed a Viking’s status and wealth. Credit: Adobe Stock: Fotokvadrat Rich Vikings liked showing off using […]
Ancient Tools Used In Religious Rituals In Honor Of Goddess Hathor Discovered In Egypt
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have unearthed several interesting artifacts that were used in religious rituals for goddess Hathor. The ancient tools were discovered at the Temple of the Pharaohs (Boto) in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate north of Cairo. Credit: Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities Goddess Hathor, one of ancient Egypt’s greatest […]
Ancient DNA Of Segorbe Giant Reveals A Brutal Event In Medieval Spain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international group of scientists has studied a genome sequence of a unique individual known as the Segorbe giant and his DNA reveals a brutal event that occurred in Medieval Spain. The individual, who was discovered in an eleventh century Islamic necropolis from the city of Segorbe, near Valencia in […]
Intriguing Phenomenon Sheds New Light On The Etruscans
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Etruscan civilization, which flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy, has intrigued scholars for millennia. With remarkable metallurgical skills and a now-extinct, non-Indo-European language, the Etruscans stood out from their contemporary neighbors, leading to intense debate from the likes of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus on their geographical […]
Bacho Kiro Cave: Early Homo Sapiens Groups In Europe Faced Subarctic Climates
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Max Planck researchers show that human groups belonging to an early wave of dispersal of our species into Europe were faced with very cold climatic conditions while they occupied […]
Milk Enabled Mᴀssive Steppe Migration – A New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Already in the Bronze Age, pastoralists covered long distances across the Eurasian steppes – presumably thanks to their consumption of milk. The Yamnaya, one of the earliest pastoralist populations of the Eurasian steppe, began expanding out of the Pontic-Caspian steppe more than 5000 years ago. These migrations resulted in gene […]
23,000-Year-Old Footprints Are Earliest Evidence Of Human Activity Found In The Americas
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer insight into life over 23,000 years ago. The footprints were formed in soft mud on the margins of a shallow lake that now forms part of Alkali Flat, a […]
Strange And Scary Encounter With Ancient Giants In North America
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There are many interesting and well-documented encounters with ancient giants in North America and today it is time to present one such case. This meeting took place in the vicinity of Tampa Bay and many who came in contact with these aggressive giants died, but some managed to survive and […]
Ancient Maya People Used Volcanic Ash To Build Pyramids When Huge Eruption Occurred
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have studied how ancient people responded to catastrophic natural events and discovered ancient Maya people used volcanic ash to build some of their pyramids. According to Akira Ichikawa, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado Boulder excavation and radiocarbon data reveal the Maya survivors and/or re-settlers made considerable efforts […]