Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and the archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, both from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have published a paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology about the 1.5 million-year-old cranium
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using modern scanning technology, scientists have located a long, mysterious, never-before-seen tunnel in the Khufu Pyramid in Egypt. Named after its builder, a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C. they Pyramid
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Manannán mac Lir (or Manann) – “son of the sea”) – is a sea god in Irish mythology and the Welsh tradition; his other name is Manawydan. Stephen Reid’s illustration – Manannán’s boat – The
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While visiting the Tel Lachish National Park in south-central Israel, a hiker and his friend found a 2,500-year-old pottery shard, known as an ostracon inscribed with some letters. The potsherd discovered in Tel Lachish with
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers has analyzed ancient human DNA from several archaeological sites in Andalucía in southern Spain. The study reports on the oldest genome to date from Cueva del Malalmuerzo in southern Spain,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Modern humans began to spread across Eurasia about 45,000 years ago. Still, previous research showed that the first modern humans that arrived in Europe did not contribute to later populations. A new study published in Nature
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Some years ago, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales worldwide. Now, researchers in Australia think they may have found evidence of this behavior being described in ancient accounts of sea creatures recorded
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A study by an international and interdisciplinary team headed by University of Freiburg archaeologist Dr. Ralph Araque Gonzalez from the Faculty of Humanities has proven that steel tools were already in use in Europe around
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Easter Island’s large and impressive stone-carved statues have long intrigued scientists and the public in general. Many have long wondered how the ancient people who inhabited this tiny remote volcanic island in Polynesia built such
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists who study the origins and evolution of the plague have examined hundreds of ancient human teeth from Denmark, seeking to address longstanding questions about its arrival, persistence and spread within Scandinavia. In the first
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland’s religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge. A combination of scientific and historical research is shedding light on the physical and chemical properties of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – How could a 3300-year-old story be commemorated and published millennia before televisions, radios, or posts were invented? The Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I provides a concise guide. The large stele in the picture depicts King Seti
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – A frightening prophecy, battle with dangerous sea monsters, heroic deeds, and strange encounters with a shape-shifting troll are just some of the many adventures mentioned in the Örvar-Odds saga. Written in the 13th century by
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –More than 100 years ago, Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Smithsonian Institution was asked to examine strange star-shaped fossils with lobes hailing from the ~ 514-million-year-old Conasauga Formation in Alabama. Walcott described these odd fossils
AncientPages.com – A headline bound to get you up in the morning — a 2,000 year old dildo from ancient Rome has just been discovered. The 16-centimetre wooden phallus was originally uncovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in Northumberland in
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Wilhelm I Conqueror, also known as “William the Bastard” (ca. 1028 -1087), was King of England and Duke of Normandy. William was the son of Herleva and Robert I, Duke of Normandy, in what was
