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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists propose a psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early humans to make cave art. Ortho-images (orthorectified image accounting for distortions in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Use-wear analysis of grinding tools unearthed at the site of Jebel Oraf in the Nafud desert, shows that the artifacts were used during the Neolithic time. It sheds new light on the subsistence and lifestyle
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North America thousands of years earlier than once thought. In September 2021, scientists
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Research into ancient hunter-gatherer populations of the Iberian Peninsula has mainly focused on coastal regions, with relatively little investigation into the inland. A classic hypothesis has been that the cold and dry conditions of inland Iberia
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found evidence suggesting the ancient use of ochre in Africa and Europe indicates that body painting, clothing decoration, and tattooing may date back to more than 300,00 years ago, or perhaps even 500,000
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While investigating a site at the southern edge of the Nefud desert in Saudia Arabia, archaeologists discovered remarkable ancient life-sized engravings of extinct camel species. The newly discovered rock art site of the Sahout area
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than 10,000 Pre-Columbian archaeological sites likely rest undiscovered throughout the Amazon basin, estimates a new study. Geographical distribution of known and newly discovered pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in Amazonia. (A) Map of previously reported and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During the ongoing restoration works of Esna Temple in Luxor , the Egyptian-German archaeologists additionally uncovered more original reliefs and engravings on the walls and the ceilings of the structure. Image credit: Ahram Online The
AncientPages.com – Our species, Homo sapiens, migrated out of Africa multiple times – reaching the Levant and Arabia between 130,000 and 70,000 years ago, as exemplified by human fossils and archaeological sites found at various locations. A general view of Wadi
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The remains of human bones with cutmarks, breaks and human chewing marks found across northern Europe show that some human groups living around 15,000 years ago were eating their dead not out of necessity, but
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists are puzzled by 5,000-year-old bear bones found on the Unalaska and Amaknak Islands in the Aleutians, Alaska. The ancient bones have been a decades-old mystery due to the fact that bears have never lived
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Cave of Letters in the Judean Desert, Israel, was discovered many years ago by Bedouin of the Ta`amireh tribe. When the cave was examined, letters and fragments of papyri from the Roman Empire period
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A rare 2,500-year-old Scythian bone sceptre has been found in a grave by archaeologists excavating in the prehistoric salt mining and urban center “Provadia – Solnitsata” in Northeast Bulgaria. Credit: Danail Voikov/BTA “The prehistoric complex
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Um Al-Qaab archaeological site in Abydos in Sohag Governorate, Egypt, have discovered hundreds of 5,000-year-old well-preserved wine jars and grave goods in a tomb belonging to an enigmatic woman known as Meret-Neith.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The cuneiform tablet unearthed in the Hittite city of Samuha points to the connection with the famous temple of the Goddess Sausga (also known as Šauška (Shaushka). The relief depicting the love and war goddess Sausga
