Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Vikings were not a uniform phenomenon in ancient Scandinavia. They were part of a complex system of plunder economy that existed in Europe
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – The Viking Gjermundbu helmet is one of the most valuable Viking Age artifacts ever discovered. Over the years, archaeologists have discovered many precious Viking
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A groundbreaking study in prehistoric archaeology at Tel Aviv University provides evidence for high cognitive abilities in early humans who lived 170,000 years
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A once-in-a-lifetime archival discovery reveals that a rare map hiding behind a false identity in Washington D.C. was the work of William Clark,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Ancient Indigenous people in Peru had a unique response to the looting and destruction of their ancestors’ graves during the European colonial period,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have discovered a 1.5 million-year-old human vertebra in Israel’s Jordan Valley. According to a new study, ancient human migration from Africa to
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – The rapid decline of the Hopewell culture about 1,500 years ago might be explained by falling debris from a near-Earth comet that created
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagl.com – The Judean Desert is a unique time capsule for archeologists: thanks to the arid conditions that prevail there, its caves preserve ancient artifacts
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Egyptologists have recovered more than 18,000 inscribed sherds in ancient Athribis—the remains of vessels and jars that served as writing material some 2,000
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – This important discovery sheds much light on cacao cultivation, religion, power in the region. For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in recent research. It reveals new radiocarbon dates
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Horses have been intrinsically entwined with human history for the past five millennia, acting as an early means of rapid transport and playing
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A team of scientists examined the remains of a previously submerged fisher-hunter-gatherer camp on the shores of the Sea of Galilee from around
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards human-like traits is often
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the “Gold Mask of Agamemnon”, but
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – King Amenhotep III, also known as Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During his reign, Egypt successfully managed to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists excavating in Aswan, Egypt has unearthed 20 mummies in ancient burial chambers. According to Ahram Online, “The first part
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In Japan there are several interesting megalithic tombs that have long interested scientists. Known as Kofun (“ancient grave”), the structures were “constructed between
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Bronze Age Maikop kurgan is one of the most richly furnished prehistoric burial mounds in the northern Caucasus. Excavations conducted in the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It’s a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon: would you rather be running after tasteless wild berries, or curled up on your couch with
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered the first insights
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity’s earliest agricultural
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Many ancient civilizations have used alcohol, beer, and hallucinogens. The world’s oldest paycheck reveals ancient Sumerian workers were paid in beer, and this
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of
