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AncientPages.com - When Columbus landed in 1492, the Americas had been settled for tens of thousands of years. He wasn't the first person to discover the continent. Instead,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How frequent was violence in prehistoric human societies? One way to measure this is to look for trauma in prehistoric human remains. For
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The question of what makes modern humans unique has long been a driving force for researchers. Comparisons with our closest relatives, the Neandertals,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first European crusaders of the Holy Land were inspired by the fame and fortune awarded to the Norman conquerors in Europe, a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary discovery was made in the city of Jerusalem. A team of archaeologists unearthed an assemblage of ivory plaques from the First
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have uncovered a skeleton of a person who lived 31,000 years ago. According to a new study, the individual is missing its
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique document was returned to Israel. The document opens with the words: “To Ishmael send….” Whilst the text does not refer to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Cincinnati Art Museum turned to a scientist at the University of Cincinnati for help solving a mystery 1,300 years in the making.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many people living today have a small component of Neanderthal DNA in their genes, suggesting an important role for admixture with archaic human
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent discoveries in Bergama (Pergamon), the ancient city in West Anatolia are fascinating. Excavations in the ancient city of Pergamon (Pergamum of Mysia
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AncientPages.com - Neanderthals have served as a reflection of our own humanity since they were first discovered in 1856. What we think we know about them has been shaped
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using fossilized eggs in up to 2,500-year-old feces from Viking settlements in Denmark and other countries, researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Department
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals are the closest relatives to modern humans. Comparisons with them can therefore provide fascinating insights into what makes present-day humans unique, for
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The recent rescue excavation of a 2nd century BCE burial site in the southern Tuscany region of Italy is providing a previously unseen
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It really doesn't matter whether the person is young or older, it's a find of a lifetime. Still, to a youngster who is
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in central Turkey report they have come across traces of permanent settlement dating back at least 9,300 years. "We can say that
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One never knows what can be hidden in the ground of one’s backyard. That’s what a man in Norway realized after noticing two
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of Israeli archaeologists unearthed the gigantic tusk of a prehistoric elephant near Kibbutz Revadim in southern Israel. These enormous animals once
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Conny Waters- AncientPages.com - Strange mythical beasts appear in tales worldwide. In most cases, their description fits a specific category, and it's possible to define the nature of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hominin fossils discovered at the Toros-Menalla site in Chad’s Djurab desert have substantially contributed to scientists’ understanding of early human evolution in Africa.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Our ancestors dealt with large-scale environmental challenges thousands of years ago. Understanding their traditional practices may inform modern Europeans racing to adapt to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The pyramids of Giza constitute one of the world’s most iconic cultural landscapes and have fascinated humanity for thousands of years. How these
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair has been discovered in a woman's grave. The excavation team unearthed the chair
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2004, construction workers in Norwich, U.K., unearthed human skeletal remains that led to a historical mystery—at least 17 bodies at the bottom
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have investigated the importance of ancient Roman funerary meals focusing on what products were used to prepare the food offerings. "Ancient written
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As grave markers, tombstones offer a focus for mourning and commemoration. Typically made of stone and usually engraved with the deceased's name, date
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a curious, ancient inscription near the Sea of Galilee. The ancient Greek inscription uncovered by archaeologists from Kinneret College in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - US Agents in Memphis have seized a precious ancient artifact. The 3,000-year-old Egyptian artifact was hidden in a canopic jar lid of a
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![Microscopy picture of a dividing basal radial glial cell, a progenitor cell type that generates neurons during brain development. Modern human TKTL1, but not Neandertal TKTL1, increases basal radial glia and neuron abundance. Credit: Pinson et al., Science 2022 / MPI-CBG Left: Microscopy picture of a dividing basal radial glial cell, a progenitor cell type that generates neurons during brain development. Modern human TKTL1, but not Neandertal TKTL1, increases basal radial glia and neuron abundance. [less] © Pinson et al., Science 2022 / MPI-CBG; Right: Anneline Pinson is a researcher in Wieland Huttner's group. © MPI-CBG](https://www.ancientpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Brain12Neurons-220x162.jpg)
