Evidence Of Beer Drinking 9,000 Years Ago In Southern China Discovered
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Beer has been a popular beverage for as long as anyone can remember. Ancient people enjoyed beer just as much as many of us do today. A roughly 5,000-year-old cuneiform stone tablet that has been classified as the world’s oldest paycheck reveals ancient Sumerian workers were paid in beer. Ancient […]
Trajan’s Column – A Roman Triumphal Column In Ancient Rome
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Pillars of victory, also known as memorial columns, were occasionally erected to memorize the triumphs of victorious achievements of an emperor. They were built to honor an emperor and are generally described as a great victory because the Emperor won in the name of the Roman Empire. They thus acted […]
Controversial Ruler Tsar Boris Godunov’s Exact Date Of Birth Determined By Scientists
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.om – The controversial ruler Boris Godunov (1552–1605) has unwillingly become an unpopular character in Russian history. His biography is full of ambiguities and gaps. Some have attributed non-existing names to him, others have blamed him for the death of almost all the last Rurikids—not only Tsarevich Dmitry, but also Ivan the […]
Australia’s Submerged Indigenous Sites – New Discoveries And Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New archeological research highlights major blind spots in Australia’s environmental management policies, placing submerged Indigenous heritage at risk. The study area relative to the main terrestrial and offshore regions of Australia, based on state and marine bioregions. Contains GEBCO 15 ArcSecond raster data (Public Domain) and Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries […]
Never-Before-Seen Archaic Shell Rings Left By Indigenous People Revealed By Remote Sensing And Machine Learning
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Deep in the dense coastal forests and marshes of the American Southeast lie shell rings and shell mounds left by Indigenous people 3,000 to 5,000 years ago. Now an international team of researchers, using deep machine learning to ᴀssess remote sensing data, has located previously undiscovered shell rings. The researchers […]
Population Pressure And Prehistoric Violence In The Yayoi Period Of Japan
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A continuous rise in the global population has led to fears that conflicts and war will become more frequent as resources dwindle. But this widespread belief has not been quantified based on actual Japanese archaeological data, until now. Researchers from Okayama University have now examined the skeletal remains of people […]
Neanderthal Hunting Camp Discovered In The Center Of The Iberian Peninsula
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -Researchers undertook a zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of the Neanderthal Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), some 76,000 years old, whose results indicate that these Neanderthals mainly hunted large bovids and cervids. Fauna remains. Credit: Abel Moclán Thanks to the taphonomic study, it has been possible to characterize the […]
‘Impossible’ Ancient Knowledge Of The Gods’ Star – First Observations – Part 1
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There are countless examples of how the modern world regularly underestimates our ancestors’ knowledge. Not only were ancient civilizations much more advanced than previously thought, but some of them were also aware of celestial objects we have only recently discovered. How could ancient people be familiar with stars and planets […]
Hundreds Of Exceptional Bronze Age Artifacts Discovered In France Were Probably Offerings
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in France have unearthed hundreds of exceptional Bronze Age artifacts that were most likely offerings. The still-well-preserved 3,00-year-old artifacts include jewelry and weapons that were found at the prehistoric site in Gannat in Allier. Some of the Bronze Age items have “already been analyzed, revealing women’s or children’s jewelry, […]
Who Were The Satraps Of The Achaemenid Empire?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – They may not be often mentioned, but the Satraps played an essential role in ancient history. Satraps were governors of provinces of the Achaemenid Empire, and later its successors the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic Empire. Satraps had similar responsibilities to the vizier, who next after the Pharaoh was the […]