Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Sometimes, when archaeologists look for one thing, they find something entirely different. This is exactly what happened in Switzerland when researchers were excavating, hoping to find an ancient Roman brick workshop, but they unearthed a previously unknown Bronze Age settlement instead. The excavation in Heimberg, on the right edge of […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The site of Beg ar Loued on the island of Molène Finistère, France, makes it possible, for the first time on the European Atlantic coast, to document the culinary practices of the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age thanks to the good preservation of lipids […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com –  Seven impressive Bronze Age swords and a large hoard of Slavic coins have been unearthed by volunteer archaeologists in Germany. The find was made in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs announced in a press release that the seven swords were found in fragments […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For the last 80 years, farmers in the Shanxi-Shaanxi Plateau, China, have encountered many Bronze Age artifacts in the fields. Many locals sent these ancient objects to authorities, and several artifacts can be seen in museums. Still, archaeological experts have long wondered where these beautiful 3,000-year-old jade objects originated. Part […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com –  There are still many unknown ancient structures in Europe. Due to their hard-to-reach location, some prehistoric buildings can only be detected from the air using an ultra-compact, drone-deployed Lidar that can penetrate the environment. Archaeologists using satellite images and aerial pH๏τography have uncovered a previously unknown network of mᴀssive sites […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A magnificent Bronze Age treasure has been discovered in Switzerland. The adventure started when Franz Zahn examined a freshly harvested carrot field in Güttingen with his metal detector. When he found several Middle Bronze Age decorative discs, he immediately contacted the Office of Archaeology, which arranged the excavation and documentation […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When Britannia Archaeology experts started excavating near Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK, they thought it would be a short project, but they were wrong. The scientists have been digging at the site for nearly a year, and the research team has found evidence that people have occupied this place for thousands of […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The diversity of family systems in prehistoric societies has always fascinated scientists. A groundbreaking study by Mainz anthropologists and an international team of archaeologists now provides new insights into the origins and genetic structure of prehistoric family communities. Researchers Jens Blöcher and Joachim Burger from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have long been drawing conclusions about how ancient tools were used by the people who crafted them based on written records and context clues. But with dietary practices, they have had to make ᴀssumptions about what was eaten and how it was prepared. A new study published in the […]