Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new decorated stela has been found in context, in the 3000-year-old funerary complex of Las Capellanías, in Cañaveral de León (Huelva, south-west of Spain). It is thought that late prehistoric stelae in Iberia were created to commemorate important personages. Durham University Archaeology students have been part of an extraordinary archaeological discovery […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Research into ancient hunter-gatherer populations of the Iberian Peninsula has mainly focused on coastal regions, with relatively little investigation into the inland. A classic hypothesis has been that the cold and dry conditions of inland Iberia would have been too harsh for such populations to inhabit during the coldest periods of […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While searching for a missing gold ring with a metal detector, a family in Norway found, to their big surprise, something entirely different in their garden on the island of Jomfruland. Jan Erik Aasvik has a metal detector he almost never uses, but he thought he would try it to […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It does not happen often archaeologists find an ancient unlooted Roman sarcophagus. When it happens, like it just did in France, it is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the past. “It’s quite exceptional, it’s the first time that we have found a tomb intact and which has not […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As many as 35 beautiful 1,400-year-old gold figures were discovered at a site where a Pagan temple was once located outside Lillehammer, Norway. They are the size of a fingernail and thin as paper, often square, and stamped with a motif. Usually, they depict a man and a woman in […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists made a remarkable new find during an archaeological dig at Govan Old Churchyard in Glasgow, Scotland. Led by y the University of Glasgow’s Professor Stephen Driscoll and Clyde Archaeology, the research team uncovered an early Medieval carved stone of a warrior figure. Scientists say the stone is quite unlike […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An intriguing 1,300-year-old grave belonging to a Merovingian warrior has been discovered during an archaeological survey of an early Medieval cemetery in Ingelheim, Germany. It is an exceptional and surprising find because the grave remains intact despite being between two looted graves. Somehow, looters must have missed this one. When […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A tunnel discovered under the ruins of the Saxon Palace in Warsaw is the most mysterious place on Piłsudski Square, says the Pałac Saski company spokesman Sławomir Kuliński. The tunnel, located at the depth of about four meters, is not on any plans we have, he adds. Credit: PAP Archaeological […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com –  Another fascinating ancient treasure has been discovered in Norway, but this one is something truly exceptional. Experts say it is the largest gold treasure of it is kind found in the country! The lucky finder was 51-year-old Erlend Bore from Sola, who came across this priceless ancient treasure by chance […]