Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Prehistorians used advanced technology and discovered that early humans in the Hula Valley invested in systematic procurement of raw materials hundreds of thousands of years ago – much earlier than previously ᴀssumed. Geography, geology, Lower Paleolithic sites, surveyed areas, and extraction and reduction complexes and locations in the research area […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Egyptian Book of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ provides unique insights into the religious life of ancient Egypt. A new handbook presents the current state of research. Co-editor is the Würzburg Egyptologist Martin Andreas Stadler. This small part from a fragment of a Book of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ from the Martin von Wagner […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers. Every bird you’ve ever seen— every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo— is a living dinosaur. Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mᴀss extinction 66 million years ago.   Illustration of what a newly hatched […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An archaeological expedition from the University of Gothenburg recently discovered tombs outside the Bronze Age trading metropolis Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus. Detail of the ”Bull Diadem” (c. 1350 BCE). Image credit: P.M. Fischer They rank among the richest ever found in the Mediterranean region. The precious tomb artifacts indicate […]