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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Odin is a god of war, death, poetry, and wisdom in Norse mythology. He often spoke in beautiful poems. But before he became the god of poetry, he had to steal and consume the Mead of Poetry, also known as 'Mead of Inspiration', 'Kvasir’s Blood', 'Suttungr’s Mead' and 'Dwarfs’ Drink,' […]

Conny Waters - Ancientpages.com - Hidden within the thick forests of the Balam Kú Biosphere Reserve are the ruins of El Yesal, one of the biggest cities in the Central Mayan Lowlands. This site has now been formally studied for the first time, thanks to a project led by Professor Ivan Šprajc from the Research Center […]

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have extracted and analyzed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential all-female burial site. The study, published in Cell, suggests that South Africa’s Rising Star Cave system may be the first known sex-specific burial site attributed to a non-human species. Homo naledi, an extinct […]

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A well-preserved Roman relief depicting a protective guardian spirit was found at Vindolanda in northern England, where it had been hidden beneath a barrack floor for over 1,600 years. The third generation of the Birley family of archaeologists uncovered it, making this not only a significant archaeological find but also a […]

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Experts have uncovered information concealed for two centuries in a navigational chart created for 18th-century seafarers navigating the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The beautiful paper scroll demonstrates that seafaring communities in the region developed an effective navigation system that supported trade among India, Arabia, and the Horn of [R...