Scientists have uncovered the bones of four key members of Virginia’s Jamestown colony. Jamestown was settled near the Chesapeake Bay in 1607. Named for England’s King James I, this colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America. All
The oldest case of acute decompensated heart failure has been found in 3,500-year-old mummified remains, researchers have just announced. Consisting of just a head and canopic jars containing internal organs, the remains were found in a plundered tomb by the
At a site near the Southwest Alaska village of Quinhagak archeologists have unearthed Yup’ik artifacts and the old village continues to reveal artifacts that give a glimpse into the daily lives of Yup’ik people hundreds of years ago. The most
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Nearly a year ago, a sacrificial altar dedicated to an unknown Pagan god, Porobonus, was discovered in Bulgaria. The limestone artifact, dating back to the first half of the 3rd century AD, was unearthed at
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Cahuachi – once the capital of the Nazca culture and a major ceremonial center from the period 450 BC- 450 AD – is located 30 km (19 miles) western of Nazca City, Peru. The site
According to reports, researchers have discovered that the pigment Egyptian blue was used in Roman-era Egyptian mummy portraits. The pigment could not be seen with the naked eye. It was used as a material for underdrawings and for changing color.
Decades ago, the world’s oldest footwear was discovered in a cave in remote central Oregon. Now archaeologists will revisit this fascinating cave, in the hope of shedding new light on the spread of early human settlement through the Americas. University
AncientPages.com – Amateur archaeologists have made a sensational find of Viking Age silver coins in a field in Errested near Haderslev in south Jutland. So far, a total of 165 coins, dating back to the beginning of the 11th century,
Sixty bodies were found on Sunday in a mass grave dating back to Roman times in a field in the Central Anatolian province of Kütahya by a farmer plowing the field with a mule. The remnants, which were discovered near
Polish conservators have just ended the first season of restoration of the oldest villa in the ancient town of Stabiae. The city of Stabiae, next to Pompeii and Herculaneum, is one of the cities that were completely destroyed during the
Previously unknown rock paintings, covering rock shelters in the Kondoa district in central Tanzania, have been discovered by Maciej Grzelczyck, archaeologist from A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland and winner of the Ministry of Science programme “Diamond Grant”. Grzelczyck also
AncientPages.com – Ministry of Antiquities launches fundraising campaign to buy a 4,500-year-old statue sold last year in London, and stops archaeological cooperation with the Northampton Museum for selling it. Egypt’s antiquities minister Mamdouh Eldamaty launched on Saturday a fundraising campaign
