Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team of Swedish and Norwegian paleontologists has discovered remains of the earliest known
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In part 1 of this series, we discussed an unusual birth and prophecy concerning an ancient Greek philosopher. Ancient scholars found the subject interesting and proposed theories explaining why this individual was not an ordinary
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A University of South Florida anthropologist has uncovered the first ancient DNA from the Swahili Civilization, which included prosperous trading states along the coast of East Africa dating back to the 7th century. The site
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – ‘Altar of Twelve Gods’, also called the Sanctuary of the Twelve Gods, depicts the twelve gods, who correspond to the Dii Consentes (‘The Harmonious Gods’), an ancient list of twelve major deities, six gods and six
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For the first time, researchers have pinpointed a date when elite Mongol Empire people were drinking yak milk, according to a study co-led by a University of Michigan researcher. By analyzing proteins found within ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Several severed hands have been discovered in three pits within a courtyard in front of the throne room of a 15th Dynasty (c.1640–1530 BC) Hyksos palace at Avaris/Tell el-Dab‘a in north-eastern Egypt. The severed right hands
Conny Waters – Ancientpages.com – Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study led by UCL researchers. Published in Science Advances, the collaboration between UCL geneticists
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Simon Fraser University researchers are learning more about ancient graffiti—and their intriguing comparisons to modern graffiti—as they produce a state-of-the-art 3D recording of the Temple of Isis in Philae, Egypt. Temple of Isis in Philae,
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Ancient 2-meter-long amphibians swam like crocodiles long before true crocodiles existed according to a new study. During the Late Permian Period, just over 250 million years ago, South Africa was home to rhinesuchid temnospondyls,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The continent of North America is where horses first emerged. Millions of years of evolutionary changes transformed the horse before it became the natural companion of many Indigenous Peoples and the flagship symbol of the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A text thought to be lost by the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century BC) has been discovered thanks to multispectral imaging, then deciphered and interpreted by two researchers from the Léon Robin Center (Sorbonne University/CNRS),
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating near Garforth in Leeds, UK, have made a “once-in-a-lifetime” find. Scientists report they have discovered multiple ancient burials. The hidden cemetery dating back 1,600 years, contains the remains of at least 60 individuals,
AncientPages.com – A recently discovered note, drawn up by Leonardo da Vinci’s father, Piero, in November 1452, shows that he emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina. The scholar who found the document (Carlo Vecce, a professor of Italian literature) has suggested that
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – People living on the ‘Swahili coast’ – the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa – have African and Asian ancestry according to new research on ancient DNA. One of the sites excavated along the coastline.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It sounds a little like Stone Age standup: A Denisovan and a human walk past a bees’ nest heavy with honeycomb. What happens next? According to a study led by University of Alaska Fairbanks biological
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It is called radiocarbon 3.0, the newest method in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the earliest human history, starting with the interaction between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals
