Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of researchers can now show that early humans of the Middle Paleolithic had a more varied diet than previously assumed. The analysis of a site in the Zagros Mountains in Iran reveals that
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new genetic study reveals indigenous Mexicans migrated to California 5,200 years ago. Researchers have found evidence hunter-gatherers who came from Mexico spread unique languages from the south about 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
AncientPages.com – Elagabalus ruled as Roman emperor for just four years before being murdered in AD 222. He was still a teenager when he died. Despite his short reign, Elagabalus is counted among the most infamous of Roman emperors, often listed alongside Caligula and Nero.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed the largest floor mosaic in İncesu district, Örenşehir District, Köy İçi locality, in the Cappadocia region. Archaeological excavations in İncesu district, Örenşehir District, Köy İçi locality, under the supervision of Kayseri Museum
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Something strange and unexplained happened on the Træna islands in Nordland county, Norway. Why was the entire local community wiped out? One would suspect war and violence led to the death of those people, but
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In a landmark collaboration between Wiradjuri people, NSW State government and archaeologists, new research has revealed the deep-time hidden story of Wiradjuri carved trees (marara) and burials (dhabuganha) in Southeast Australia. Led by a collaborative effort between
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In folklore, the famous 34-meter-long crevice cave known as Pirunkirkko, or Devil’s Church in English, was known as a place where local sages would meet to contact the spirit world. The national park of Koli
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have spent much time working on the examination and conservation of a Medieval shipwreck wreck found near the Old City Harbour of Tallinn on Lootsi Street in Estonia. Excavations of the Lootsi cog. Credit:
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at the ancient city Hattusa in Turkey keep making fascinating discoveries. Once the capital of the Hittite empire, the city of Hattusa is today an archaeological site of great importance, providing researchers with
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Fens of eastern England, a low-lying, extremely flat landscape dominated by agricultural fields, was once a vast woodland filled with huge yew trees, according to new research. Scientists from the University of Cambridge studied
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a new repeat gene cluster sequence that is exclusively expressed in humans and non-human primates. The discovery, detailed in a study published in Science Advances, is a breakthrough for human genome biology and has wide-ranging implications for
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the ancient city of Doliche in southeastern Turkey have uncovered more than 2,000 clay seal impressions. The seal impression, bullae, were small pieces of clay used in ancient times to sign documents
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new artificial intelligence (AI) software is now able to decipher difficult-to-read texts on cuneiform tablets. It was developed by a team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Mainz University of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Sumerians were an advanced ancient civilization fully aware of the dangers climate can pose. They naturally knew there was no survival without water, and when their magnificent city of Girsu became endangered, they decided to
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Crocodiles have a deep and varied evolutionary past. Now, researchers are peeling back the layers to find out how the surviving species came to be. Some ancient crocodiles, like Simosuchus, were doing things vastly different
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Today, there are no more than 1,088 Ket people left. Only a few of them are Native speakers who master the Ket language. The rest speak Russian. The Ket people, who have their home in
