Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Medieval sword was found in the sea off the Carmel coast, and it probably fell into the water during a naval battle approximately 800 years ago. Swimmer Shlomi Katzin with the sword from the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Excavations by a University of Kansas paleontologist working in a treasure trove of fossils called the “Spence Shale Lagerstätte” have revealed an ancient sea worm unknown to science until now. When she found the fossil,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Early colonial settlers likely survived the harsh frontier conditions of 17th-century Delaware because they banded as family units to work alongside enslaved African descendants and European indentured servants, a new study says. Achaeologists have uncovered
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a Neolithic ornate necklace in a child’s grave in Jordan. According to a new study, this single accessory provides new insights into the social complexity of Neolithic culture. Body adornments are powerful
AncientPages.com – Science fiction is rife with fanciful tales of deadly organisms emerging from the ice and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting human victims. From shape-shifting aliens in Antarctica, to super-parasites emerging from a thawing woolly mammoth in Siberia, to exposed permafrost in Greenland causing a viral
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Coal has long played a crucial role in the life of human civilizations. Records of systematic coal fuel exploitation date back to the late third millennium B. P., and there is no evidence the systematic
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography “Moon and Rainbow” in which he recounted his ancestors’ stories. Among them was a story telling of a time when the North Wellesley Islands
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During a search for artifacts made of meteoritic iron, archaeologists accidentally found a Bronze Age arrowhead stored in the Bern History Museum’s collection. Fig. 1. a–b. a) Overview of the Mörigen arrowhead. Note adhering bright
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Exeter, UK, have made several intriguing finds this season. For the first time in 150 years, scientists have the opportunity to conduct archaeological excavations in the Quire area of the 900-year-old Exeter
AncientPages.com – Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins. It’s difficult to imagine why our early ancestors would have mated with them. Neanderthals were a
