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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists say they have uncovered the first evidence of an unknown ancient ‘Silk Road’ in Israel. Scientists say they have discovered an unknown ancient Silk Road in Israel. Credit: Adobe Stock – Barbara The evidence
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For the first time in a century, archaeologists excavating in Egypt have discovered a 16 meters long ancient papyrus in the Saqqara area. Upon discovery of the ancient scroll, scientists thought it measured only nine
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Pronounced climate fluctuations and changed conditions for agriculture coincided with the rise and fall of the Persian Empires, according to an international study led by researchers at Linköping University. Konar Sandal – Credit: Pourjafari –
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The CENIEH participates in a study in which dental remains of Homo antecessor were analyzed using Micro-Computed Tomography: the results indicate that this thin enamel trait was already present in the genus Homo in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Crocodiles were mummified in a unique way at the Egyptian site of Qubbat al-Hawa during the 5th Century BC, according to a study published January 18, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Bea
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neanderthals in Combe-Grenal (France) preferred to hunt in open environments, and their hunting strategies did not alter during periods of climatic change, according to a study published January 18, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study led by Western biological anthropology professor Jay Stock, suggests that milk consumption in some regions between 7,000 and 2,000 years ago led to an increase in human body mass and stature. This
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers from a variety of Spanish institutions have managed to reconstruct the diet of some 50 individuals buried more than 3,000 years ago in the Cova des Pas’ necropolis in Menorca. The study, coordinated by
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The world’s oldest known runestone is currently on exhibition, attracting international attention among runic scholars and archaeologists. The stone has inscriptions up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – If you take a magnifying glass and a flashlight and look at your teeth very carefully in the mirror, in places you can spot a pattern of fine, parallel lines running across your teeth. These
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – With the help of new archaeogenetic data, scientists have obtained exciting insights into the social order of the Aegean Bronze Age. Life picture: Bronze Age family harvesting grain. © Nikola Nevenov When Heinrich Schliemann discovered
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A young girl has made the discovery of a lifetime! During a visit to Calvert Beach in Maryland on Christmas Day, nine-year-old Molly Sampson found an ancient tooth from a 50-foot-long megalodon. Molly shows the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists excavating in Luxor, Egypt, has announced the discovery of a mysterious ancient tomb. According to Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the tomb was unearthed by Egyptian and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Eight over-4,000-year-old, ostrich eggs were uncovered near an ancient fire pit in the Nitzana sand dunes in the Negev, in the south of Israel. This rare find, preliminarily dated between 4,000 and 7,500 years ago,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com -The analysis of ancient DNA allows scientists to trace human evolution and make important discoveries about modern populations. The data revealed by ancient DNA sampling can be valuable, but the human remains that carry this ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Slovakia have made an unusual find. The remains of 38 individuals were found in a ditch surrounding the settlement of Vráble. Their well-preserved skeletons were jumbled together and all of them were
