Archaeology

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Periods of prosperity can contain the roots of future collapse. In ancient Troy, ambition led to environmental strain long before modern industry. While today we associate environmental destruction with oil rigs, coal plants, or plastic waste, ancient societies also pushed their ecosystems to the limit. Pottery vessels are the most patient […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – As populations expanded in Medieval England, key changes occurred in the use of cattle and sheep to produce food and materials, according to a new study. During Medieval England, shifts in population and trade led people to change how they used animals for meat, milk, and farming. North Devon : Cattle

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The surprisingly large Germanic Iron Age Village, believed to have been an important trade center and dating to the 2nd to 5th centuries AD, sheds new light on close trade relations with the Roman Empire. The excavation team is documenting and digging out the former pit fills in the ground;

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Denmark’s largest known Viking Age silver treasure was recently discovered in a private garden in Rebild, in northern Denmark. Image credit:  Photo: Nordjyske Museer The impressive find, dated to the 10th century, was placed in a clay vessel and consists of approximately 700 objects and fragments. The treasure weighs 18.5

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New research by Dr Christopher Moore, a Research Fellow and former PhD student at the University of Kent, revealed evidence indicating that stone from Henry VIII’s long-lost Sandown Castle was reused in the Victorian extension at Constable’s Gate, Dover Castle. Dover Castle, Kent, UK. Constable’s Gate. Image credit: Michael Coppins –

Conny Waters –  AncientPages.com – Vichama is the Inca god of death, vengeance, and fertility, and the son of Inti, the sun god. The name also refers to a significant archaeological site: the Caral city north of Lima, which flourished between 1800 and 1500 BCE. Archaeologists have uncovered 3,800-year-old artifacts there, revealing stories of struggle

Jan Bartek  – AncientPages.com – People have used meteoritic iron to make tools, jewelry, ritual items, and even magical objects throughout history. The Inuit in northern Greenland made knives and scrapers from the Cape York meteorites. In pre-Columbian America, some meteorites were buried in rituals or turned into jewelry. In Egypt, a meteoritic iron talisman