Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers of China’s Tsinghua University have published the results of new research focused on five sets of bamboo slips, in which the rites regarding the ritual music system and high official’s meals dated more than 2,000 years ago were recorded. This image depicts the bamboo slips deciphered by scholars at […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have used radiocarbon dating to analyze the oldest true wooden frame saddle in East Asia, revealing how advances likely aided the rise of Mongolian steppe cultures in equestrian technology. A saddle built from a wooden frame is sturdy on horseback, facilitating the addition of stirrups. As such, it is […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces in an intricate puzzle of ancient world geography. Trilobites are extinct sea creatures with half-moon-shaped heads that breathed through their legs. A 100-page monograph in the British journal offers […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists report discovering the oldest human fossil ever unearthed in Vietnam. The skeletal remains that date back 10,000 years were found during an excavation by the Vietnam Insтιтute of Archaeology at the Tam Chuc Pagoda Complex in Kim Bang District. “This is the first-time human remains dating back 10,000 years […]

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Silla was one of the three kingdoms of Korea and the most successful one. In the 7th century, Silla conquered the other kingdoms: Baekje in 660 and Goguryeo in 668. Gold Crown from Silla, Korea. source After the conquest, this critical period in the country’s history that lasted from 668 […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state authority, finds a new study by University College London researchers. PH๏τo of in situ water pipes leading to a drainage […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For the first time, researchers have developed a model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain their body temperatures on the cold, harrowing ocean journey from Southeast Asia. Credit: Adobe Stock – Hatia Results showed that people making the first voyages from Tahiti […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The saying “there is nothing new under the Sun” seems appropriate when we learn that sanitary hardware was invented long ago. Scientists have unearthed fragments of a 2,400-year-old flush toilet and a bent flush pipe among the ruins of a palace in the Yueyang archaeological site in the central city […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have recovered and studied archaeological evidence of an ancient stringed musical instrument crafted from deer antler in southern Vietnam. Lead researcher and Ph.D. student Fredeliza Campos from The Australian National University (ANU) said the artifact is at least 2,000 years old—dating from Vietnam’s pre-Óc Eo culture along the Mekong River. Credit: Antiquity (2023). […]