AncientPages.com –  Orkney in the north of Scotland is renowned for its remarkably well-preserved monuments. Many of these are Neolithic (10,000 BC to 2,200 BC) and consist of stone circles and chambered tombs, which are still highly visible in the landscape. Chambered tombs are monuments built of stone with a chamber area designed to hold the remains […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Contemporary humans carry in their cells a small amount of DNA derived from Neanderthals and Denisovans. “Denny,” a 90,000-year-old fossil individual, recently identified as the daughter of a Denisovan father and a Neanderthal mother, bears testimony to the possibility that interbreeding was quite common among early human species. But when, […]

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com –  Not all archaeological discoveries reach the press. There are intriguing finds made by people who did not report their curious discoveries to the media or authorities. They later revealed their findings to family members, friends, or some researchers who wrote about these astonishing archaeological discoveries in books. In such cases, […]

AncientPages.com – When and how humans first settled in the Americas is a subject of considerable controversy. In the 20th century, archaeologists believed that humans reached the North American interior no earlier than around 14,000 years ago. But our new research found something different. Our latest study supports the view that people were in America about 23,000 years ago. […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Namibia is rich in hunter-gatherer rock art from the Later Stone Age (LSA); this is a tradition of which well-executed engravings of animal tracks in large numbers are characteristic. Hidden panel of the RAS 8 rock art site. The narrow corridor RAS 8-N, with engravings on both sides which extend […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – After 13 years of absence due to the civil war in Libya, archaeologists from the University of Warsaw return to study Ptolemais, a large ancient city on the Mediterranean coast. One of their tasks will be to recreate the original coastline of the local port. Polish archaeologists in Ptolemais Ptolemais […]

AncientPages.com – Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. It’s reᴀssuring to imagine that complex bodies and brains like ours are the inevitable consequence of evolution, as if evolution had a goal. Unfortunately for human egos, a recent study comparing over a thousand mammals – the […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In 2007, a pᴀsserby discovered a scarab seal at Tel Gerisa, located in northern Tel Aviv, bearing the image of a walking lion. Image credit: Israel Antiquities Authority “Since time immemorial, lions have been a symbol of strength, power and authority,” says Dr. Amir Golani, an expert in ancient jewelry […]

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com –  Some discoveries can be so strange you lack words to describe what you have seen. Rational people can encounter mysterious objects and beings who are out of the ordinary in all possible ways. You may even think you know what you just saw, but did you, or did your eyes […]