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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Marina Ascunce, currently at the USDA-ARS, and colleagues, report these findings in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Credit: Adobe Stock - Gorodenkoff The
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This year, an archaeology expedition of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of the UK excavated shaft tombs from
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Ancient Mysteries
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
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Over 100 letters sent to French sailors by their fiancées, wives, parents and siblings -- but never delivered -- have been opened and studied
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have found that previous studies analyzing the genomes of people with European ancestry may have reported inaccurate results by not fully accounting
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings, traditionally depicted as primitive bearded warriors, had a fondness for some of life's precious things. In Europe, hundreds of buried hoards of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed a strange 1,000-year-old grave containing the remains of a woman and man. The most curious aspect of this discovery is
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This autumn, the Polish-Georgian Gonio-Apsaros expedition completed the 10th season of excavations at the Roman fort of Apsaros, south of Batumi on the
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Featured Stories
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The hunter-gatherers who settled on the banks of the Haine, a river in southern Belgium, 31,000 years ago were already using spearthrowers to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One does not need to be an art expert to recognize the value of the magnificent Golden Tree of Lucignano. Created by goldsmith
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Germany report discovering the largest building of its kind from the Nordic Bronze Age (circa 2200-800 BC). The spectacular find was
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The steamship Africa vanished without a trace on a stormy October night in 1895. For 128 years, many wondered what had happened to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers re-analysed more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain. They found that many of the individuals
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Evolution
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.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Earlier this year, scientists reported the discovery of a sophisticated 4,000-year-old steppe pyramid in Kazakhstan. Archaeologists have now found yet another pyramid located on
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from Tübingen have redefined a rhinoceros genus that had fallen into oblivion: Eochilotherium lived more than 5 million years ago and did
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Earth Changes
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of the bones and muscles in ancient fish gives new clues about how the shoulder evolved in animals – including
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists conducting surveys off the coast of Salamis have found an ancient Greek building and magnificent marble treasures. According to reports, it
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient Greek city of Assos on the Aegean coast of modern Turkey is an interesting place where many archaeological have been made.
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - Ancient Pages.com - Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, large, carnivorous aquatic lizards that lived during the late Cretaceous. With "transitional" traits that
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historians and archaeologists have, over centuries, explored the mysteries behind the Great Sphinx of Giza: What did it originally look like? What was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have opened an Etruscan tomb that has remained sealed for about 2,600 years. The double-chambered tomb located in the Osteria necropolis in
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A research team led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has identified the most widespread genetic contribution
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The story of the unique Late Bronze Age logboat started many years ago. It has taken scientists and other experts many years to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The world's oldest human statue has been unearthed in Karahan Tepe, Turkey. The 7.5-foot-tall statue is estimated to be about 11,000 years and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working in the western part of Racibórz, called Studzienna, Poland, have unearthed stone tools that are 130,000 years old, or possibly even
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