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 […]
Roman Naval Base of Haltern in Germany Was Rebuilt Four Times 2,000 Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Since autumn 2021, archaeologists of the Regional ᴀssociation of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) have been excavating the area of the former Roman shore fort on the Lippe in Haltern am See. The ground marks show that two posts stood unusually close together here. This is a special structural case for which there […]
Map Of Hidden NT Landscape Where First Australians Lived More Than 60,000 Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists at Flinders University have used sub-surface imaging and aerial surveys to see through floodplains in the Red Lily Lagoon area of West Arnhem Land in Northern Australia. These ground-breaking methods showed how this important landscape in the Northern Territory was altered as sea levels rose about 8,000 years ago. […]
Stone Tools Reflect Three Waves Of Migration Of The Earliest Homo Sapiens Into Europe
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first modern humans spread across Europe in three waves during the Paleolithic, according to a new study. The archaeological record of Paleolithic Europe leaves many open questions regarding the nature of the arrival of modern humans into the region and the nature of how these newcomers interacted with the […]
Oldest Cyrillic Inscriptions Dated To The Time Of King Simeon the Great – Discovered
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -Archaeologists have discovered one of the oldest Cyrillic inscriptions from the time of King Simeon the Great This important discovery was made in the “Balak Dere” fortress near the Ivaylovgrad village of Huhla (Khuhla), Bulgaria, dated to the 10th century. Image source The team unearthed an ancient amulet (a lead plate), […]
‘Spectacular’ New Find: Roman Military Camps In Desert Found By Archaeologists Using Google Earth
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology. Oblique view of the western camp from the south-west. Possible rectilinear internal divisions are visible on the bottom and left of the enclosure (APAAME_20221123_RHB-0055, taken by […]
Digesta: An Overlooked Source Of Ice Age Carbs
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Early human foragers may have relied on eating the partially digested vegetable matter, called digesta, found in the stomachs and digestive tracts of bison and other large game herbivores. Image courtesy: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Bison skulls excavated from an archaeological site near Roswell, New Mexico. Pictured […]
What The Egg Crisis Reveals About Our Food System
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This isn’t the first time the price of eggs has skyrocketed. During the mid-19th-century gold rush, San Francisco’s population ballooned from around 800 to more than 20,000, creating a scarcity of chicken eggs that hiked their price to nearly $1 per egg—the equivalent of $30 per egg today. Image credit: […]
Stone Artifacts Reveal Long-Distance Voyaging Among Pacific Islands During The Last Millennium – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Polynesian peoples are renowned for their advanced sailing technology and for reaching the most remote islands on the planet centuries before the Europeans reached the Americas. 1827 depiction of Tahitian pahi double-hulled war canoes. Engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N° 86; after an earlier artist. Through swift eastward migrations that are […]
Unique Finds Discovered In Oman – Rub’al-Chali Desert Reveals Its Secrets
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team led by the Insтιтute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, has successfully completed the third excavation season in Oman. Excavation of a Neolithic tomb at Nafun, central Oman. Source: A. Danielisova, ARU Prague/ARDUQ project Thanks to the unique findings, scientists will, […]