Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The relationship between modern humans and neanderthals has been a subject of interest to anyone who wants to know more about our long-gone ancestors. A new study sheds more light on our understanding of the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The amazing survival strategies of polar marine creatures might help to explain how the first animals on Earth could have evolved earlier than the oldest fossils suggest, according to new research. These first simple
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Under the aegis of the University of Oslo, an international research team has extracted and analyzed plant DNA from the sediments of the Armenian “Aghitu-3” cave. About 40,000 to 25,000 years ago, the cave was
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeological excavations in Syria are currently difficult and dangerous, especially in zones occupied by rebels. The recent finding has already been hailed as a major archaeological discovery and shows that courageous scientists in Syria refuse
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Early farming in Scotland was a less smelly affair than elsewhere, as new research shows they did not need to use manure to fertilize their fields—unlike their counterparts in other parts of the British Isles and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth, to document ancient art in the bark of Australia’s boab trees. Carvings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Maps of climate in the distant past could provide insight into the future as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase. About 56 million years ago, volcanoes quickly dumped massive amounts of carbon dioxide
AncientPages.com – The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.” Credit: Adobe
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists announce an interesting discovery of a 1,800-year-old bronze medal bearing a Medusa head. In Greek mythology, a monster was also called Gorgo, and eye c0ntact with it would turn one immediately to stone. Ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – To gild sculptures in the late Middle Ages, artists often applied ultra-thin gold foil supported by a silver base layer. For the first time, scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have managed to produce
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The best way to prove some mythical stories were based on real events is through archaeology. On several occasions, myths and legends have been confirmed by modern science, and there is always room for discoveries
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Many years ago, several statues depicting unusually looking people were discovered in a remote corner of the world. Some said the statues were raised by a no vanished race and made in the image of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Crannogs are fascinating ancient artificial islands in Britain and Ireland. Previous studies have revealed hundreds of crannogs, mostly in Scotland, Ireland, and Northern Ireland. These structures are older than Stonehenge, and the purpose of the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –We rely on climate models to predict the future, but models cannot be fully tested as climate observations rarely extend back more than 150 years. Understanding the Earth’s past climate history across a longer period
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – To learn more about the cradle of civilization, scientists rely on archaeology, ancient history, paleontology, and the study of DNA that help researchers to understand the genetic history and movements of people across the globe.
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Pyramids are considered anonymous structures. Pharaohs built huge, well-constructed pyramids, tombs, and temples to glorify themselves and be forever remembered after death, but their bodies were never inside these structures. The Pyramid of Menkaure is the
