AncientPages.com – Visitors to Richborough Roman fort near Sandwich in east Kent will now find a major new addition to the site: a reconstructed Roman fort gateway in timber, flanked by stretches of an earthwork rampart. The gate has been built on
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a “polishing boulder” in the Valley of the Stones near Dorchester, UK. The discovery was made in the designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty during a heritage project run by community interest
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study reports the discovery of hundreds of mummified bees inside their cocoons. These cocoons, produced almost 3,000 years ago, were discovered in a new paleontological site discovered on the coast of Odemira, in
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – A place must not be of great size to have a long and rich history. Munkholmen is certainly proof of that. Munkholmen Isle, Trondheim, Norway. Image credit: Diego Delso – CC BY-SA 4.0 and Olav
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Would you like a personal assistant to help with your daily routine? Most of us have to cope with everyday duties on our own. Not many can afford such a luxury; frankly, some would even
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When scientists discovered a massive, underground anomaly at Nava Fort in County Armagh in Northern Ireland, they suspected they may have encountered something of archaeological and historical importance. It has previously been suggested that Iron
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved in Europe before
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists continue excavating the remains of the St. Polyeuktos Church, considered one of the most important structures of the Eastern Roman Empire. This historically valuable landmark was built approximately 1,500 years ago in Istanbul’s Saraçhane
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When archaeologists recently carried out an excavation at Vinjeøra in southern Trøndelag County, they made a surprising discovery that they had only dreamed of finding. Archaeologist and Project Manager Silje Elisabeth Fretheim made a bold
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It does not often happen that archaeologists can discover massive ancient structures and huge, intact, vaulted passageways you can just walk through. Once in a while, scientists come across prehistoric buildings and monuments that make
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For the first time, a group of researchers have successfully extracted ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. Currently housed at the National Museum of Denmark, the clay brick originates from the palace of Neo-Assyrian
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During the excavations at Inkaya Cave in the Turkish western province of Çanakkale, archaeologists discovered traces of human life dating back 86,000 years. In the layers of the cave, the team also unearthed a number
