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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Today, there are no more than 1,088 Ket people left. Only a few of them are Native speakers who master the Ket language. The rest speak Russian. The Ket people, who have their home in
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Should you eat the food using five or three fingers? You should use a fork. At the beginning, a fork did not gain many enthusiasts in Europe. When forks first appeared, they caused a sensation.
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Catequil, revered in Inca mythology, was believed to create thunder by striking the clouds with his sacred spear and a formidable club. This powerful image not only embodies his command over the forces of nature but
AncientPages.com – How did our species, Homo sapiens, arrive in Western Europe? Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, our new study analyzes two skull fragments dating back between 37,000 and 36,000 years to conclude that our ancestors came from Eastern Europe and migrated
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – While excavating at the mountain, scientists discovered something ancient and unusual hidden inside an underground structure. Soon, all excavations were stopped. Is it an ancient unknown civilization or a priceless prehistoric treasure buried beneath the
AncientPages.com – The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human Y chromosome is degenerating and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless
AncientPages.com – When we think of Neanderthals, we often imagine these distant ancestors of ours to be rather brutish, dying at a young age and ultimately becoming extinct. But findings show that at least some of these ancient Neanderthals survived into
AncientPages.com – About 400 years ago, the European witch hunts were at their peak. Between the 15th and 18th centuries, an estimated 50,000 people, mostly women, were executed for witchcraft across Europe. Witches on broomsticks, featured in The History of
AncientPages.com – The languages in the Indo-European family are spoken by almost half of the world’s population. This group includes a huge number of languages, ranging from English and Spanish to Russian, Kurdish and Persian. Family tree of Indo-European languages
AncientPages.com – How much can the written records of ancient civilizations tell us about the animals they lived alongside? Published in Environmental Archaeology, Our latest research, based on the venomous snakes described in an ancient Egyptian papyrus, suggests more than you might
AncientPages.com – For generations, Neanderthals have been a source of fascination for scientists. This species of ancient hominim inhabited the world for around 500,000 years until they suddenly disappeared around 40,000 years ago. Today, the cause of their extinction remains
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Many years ago, a large granite boulder was found in Ireland. It is one of many intriguing ancient stones in the country, except that this one poses a true prehistoric mystery. The prehistoric boulder is
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The ancient city of Susa (modern-day Shush, Khuzestan Province, Iran) remains one of the world’s oldest cities. It has been continuously inhabited since about 4200 BC (or even 5000 BC). It is one of the
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Not all archaeological discoveries reach the press. There are intriguing finds made by people who did not report their curious discoveries to the media or authorities. They later revealed their findings to family members, friends, or
AncientPages.com – To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In today’s fast changing world, older technologies, even those from a few years
AncientPages.com – When and how humans first settled in the Americas is a subject of considerable controversy. In the 20th century, archaeologists believed that humans reached the North American interior no earlier than around 14,000 years ago. But our new research found
