Ancient Maya Stela Carved On Both Sides Unearthed ‘In Situ’ In Uxmal, Yucatan Peninsula
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the National Insтιтute of Anthropology and History (INAH) led by the archeologist José Huchim Herrera, unearthed an elaborate stele with reliefs on both sides, in the Archaeological Zone of Uxmal, in the Yucatan peninsula. It is of great value that the stele was found ‘in situ’ (in the […]
Paleolithic Workshop Unearthed In The İnkaya Cave In The Turkish Western Province Of Çanakkale
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Excavations in the İnkaya Cave revealed a workshop that provides a valuable information on human migrations in the northwestern province of Çanakkale during the Paleolithic period. Image source İnkaya Cave, located within the borders of Bahadırlı village in the Çan district, was found during the Muğla and Çanakkale Provinces Survey […]
Geomagnetic Fields Reveal The Truth Behind Biblical Narratives
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A joint study by TAU and the Hebrew University, involving 20 researchers from different countries and disciplines, has accurately dated 21 destruction layers at 17 archaeological sites in Israel by reconstructing the direction and/or intensity of the earth’s magnetic field recorded in burnt remnants. Burnt mud brick wall from Tel […]
Scotland’s First Farmers Didn’t Need Manure To Fertilize Their Fields – The Land Was Still Very Productive
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Early farming in Scotland was a less smelly affair than elsewhere, as new research shows they did not need to use manure to fertilize their fields—unlike their counterparts in other parts of the British Isles and on mainland Europe. A house at Braes of Ha’Breck, one of the sites studied by […]
Ancient Indigenous Carvings On Boab Trees – Time To Rescue Ancient Art Before Trees Disappear
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth, to document ancient art in the bark of Australia’s boab trees. Carvings in the boab trees tell the stories of the King Brown Snake (or Lingka) Dreaming […]
Shrine Discovered In Egyptian Temple And Evidence Of Previously Unknown Rituals
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Sikait Project research team, directed by Professor Joan Oller Guzmán from the Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies at the UAB, recently published in the American Journal of Archaeology the results obtained from the January 2019 excavation season at the ancient seaport of Berenike, located in Egypt’s Eastern […]
Societies In Iberian Peninsula Deployed Escape Economics 4,000-Year-Old
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the University of Barcelona have analyzed settlement dynamics of the communities of the central-eastern Iberian Peninsula that existed 4,000 years ago. The fortified settlement of La Bastida (Totana, Murcia). This is one of the largest and best excavated settlements of El Argar. Credit: ASOME-UAB Using a Big Data […]
Ancient Colorful Nile-Scene Mosaics, Plastered Walls, Water Cistern Unearthed On The Shore Of The Sea Of Galilee
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using geomagnetic surface surveys and successful hands-on digging, archaeologists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) made very interesting discoveries in the area, in which the caliph’s palace of Khirbat al-Minya was built on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Researchers found stone structures made of basalt dating to various […]
Mystery Of The Neanderthals – Search For Traces Of Neanderthals’ Lives And Hints Of Their Demise
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Who were the Neanderthals and what caused their demise? For more than 350 000 years, Neanderthals inhabited Europe and Asia until, in a sudden change by evolutionary standards, they disappeared around 40 000 years ago. This was at around the same time the anatomically modern human Homo sapiens emerged from […]
Gruesome Discovery Of Headless Bodies In Vráble, Slovakia – Remains Of Stone Age Cult Victims Unearthed
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Slovak-German team of archaeologists researching one of the largest Central European Stone Age settlements in Vráble in western Slovakia, have unearthed the remains of three dozen headless bodies of people who may have been killed in cult ceremonies. Image credit: Ivan Cheben, SAV The remains probably belong to Stone Age cult […]