Major Discovery Reveals Neanderthals In Italy Engaged In Plant Food Processing
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and now there’s new evidence they did so long before scientists previously thought. Published in Quaternary Science Reviews, an Italian-led study of five ancient grindstones from around 39,000 to […]
Ancestor Of Italian Pizza Depicted On Fresco In Pompeii
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 2,000-year-old fresco discovered on the wall of a house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii depicts what could be described as a distant ancestor of modern Italian pizza! Italy’s Culture Ministry said in a press statement it is not a pizza, strictly speaking, given that some of the […]
19th Century Mᴀss Grave With Hundreds Decapitated Vampires Discovered In Polish Village
Conny Waters – AncientPages – People have long believed in the existence of vampires. Ancient people were convinced these scary blood-sucking creatures were extremely dangerous. Accounts of vampires occur in mythology and folklore worldwide, and there are also some historical as well as archaeological accounts relating how people dealt with those they believed rose from […]
Unusual Rock With Ancient Paintings Discovered By Hiker In Norway
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Tormod Fjeld was hiking with his family in the Moss area when they stopped for a rest break near a boulder, Viken County Municipality. Fjeld is no stranger to looking for past traces, which is probably why he quickly spotted there was something strange about the rock. He examined the […]
4,000-Year-Old Stonehenge Of The Netherlands Reveals Its Secrets
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Dutch archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable ancient structure that has been nicknamed the Stonehenge of the Netherlands”. Scientists say the intriguing 4,000-year-old structure includes a burial mound that served as a solar calendar. Inside the burial mound, archaeologists came across the remains of some 60 men, women, and children had […]
Unusual Archaeological Object Reveals Traces Of Prehistoric Settlements Mikołajki
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Mikołajki, Poland, have made a surprising discovery. Researchers announced they had encountered an unusual archaeological object providing traces of prehistoric and late Medieval settlements. The Warmia and Mazury Conservator of Monuments announced archaeologists, during excavations in the city center at Orzyszowa Street, discovered a granite stele that […]
First Discovery Of A 127-Million-Year-Old Side-Necked Turtle Fossil In UK
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first side-necked turtle ever to be found in the U.K. has been discovered by an amateur fossil collector and paleontologists at the University of Portsmouth. The fossil remains are the earliest of a so-called side-necked pan-pleurodiran turtle, named as such because they fold their neck into their shell sideways when threatened. […]
Evidence Of Millennia-Old Textile Manufacture And Rare Ancient Eagle-Bone Pin Discovered In Oxfordshire
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at the site of the A40 Science Transit park & ride at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, have made some interesting discoveries. During excavations, the Cotswold Archaeology research team unearthed a Middle Iron Age settlement and an important Early Bronze Age cremation burial of a child containing an eagle-bone pin. […]
Unusual Discovery Of A Viking Age Phallic Stone In Tystberga, Sweden
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – As an archaeologist, you can expect to find some surprises everywhere. That’s what happened during recent excavations on a hill in Tystberga outside the city of Norrköping, Sweden, where scientists unearthed something eye-catching. A new railroad will be constructed, so scientists excavated the site from May to June this year. […]
Over 2,000 Clay Figurines Discovered In The Ancient City Of Kythnos
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient city of Kythnos on the Aegean Sea island has long fascinated archaeologists. The site, first inhabited about 10,000 years ago, has some of the oldest prehistoric settlements in the Cyclades. An aerial view of the hilltop ancient sanctuary in Vryokastro, on the Aegean Sea island of Kythnos. Credit: Greece’s […]