Surprising And Fascinating Finds On The Wreck Of The Lootsi Cog
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have spent much time working on the examination and conservation of a Medieval shipwreck wreck found near the Old City Harbour of Tallinn on Lootsi Street in Estonia. Excavations of the Lootsi cog. Credit: Estonian Maritime Museum Known as the Wreck of the Lootsi cog, the find is of […]
Rare 2,500-Year-Old Saw Discovered At The Ancient Hitтιтe City Hattusa
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at the ancient city Hattusa in Turkey keep making fascinating discoveries. Once the capital of the Hitтιтe empire, the city of Hattusa is today an archaeological site of great importance, providing researchers with valuable historical information about the once powerful and now-extinct Hitтιтe civilization. A rare 2,500-year-old saw […]
Mystery Of Sacred Groves Of Oshogbo And Its Remarkable Ancient Figures
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – If you haven’t seen these remarkable ancient figures before, prepare yourself for a surprise. Credit: Thierry Joffroy – CRA-terre Hidden in the dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove, we encounter many ancient, very puzzling odd-looking figures with huge eyes and strange features. Who were these beings? Where did they […]
Mysterious History Of Fenland: The UK’s Possible Link To A Megadrought That Led To The Collapse Of Civilisations Around The World
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Fens of eastern England, a low-lying, extremely flat landscape dominated by agricultural fields, was once a vast woodland filled with huge yew trees, according to new research. Scientists from the University of Cambridge studied hundreds of tree trunks, dug up by Fenland farmers while ploughing their fields. The team […]
DNA Breakthrough – New Human Gene Cluster Sequence Discovered
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a new repeat gene cluster sequence that is exclusively expressed in humans and non-human primates. The discovery, detailed in a study published in Science Advances, is a breakthrough for human genome biology and has wide-ranging implications for future research in transcriptional regulation, human evolution, and the study of repeтιтive DNA sequences, according to the […]
More Than 2,000 Seal Impressions Found In The Ancient City Of Doliche
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the ancient city of Doliche in southeastern Turkey have uncovered more than 2,000 clay seal impressions. The seal impression, bullae, were small pieces of clay used in ancient times to sign documents or containers (for example, storage jugs for agricultural produce collected as a tax) intended to […]
New AI Software Is Now Able To Decipher Difficult-To-Read Texts On Cuneiform Tablets
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new artificial intelligence (AI) software is now able to decipher difficult-to-read texts on cuneiform tablets. It was developed by a team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Mainz University of Applied Sciences. Ernst Stötzner during scanning. Image credit: Uni Halle / Maike Glöckner Instead of […]
Intriguing Ket People – The Last Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers Of Siberia
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 the Yenisei River basin, are the last nomadic hunter-gatherers of Siberia, a part of Asia […]
Sumerians Built A Huge ‘Anti-Drought Machine’ To Save Ancient City Of Girsu From Destruction
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Sumerians were an advanced ancient civilization fully aware of the dangers climate can pose. They naturally knew there was no survival without water, and when their magnificent city of Girsu became endangered, they decided to try to save it from destruction. At first archaeologists did not know what the ancient […]
Surprisingly Complex History Of Crocodiles – New Study
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Crocodiles have a deep and varied evolutionary past. Now, researchers are peeling back the layers to find out how the surviving species came to be. Some ancient crocodiles, like Simosuchus, were doing things vastly different to surviving species, such as eating plants. Image credit: ©Smokeybjb/Wikimedia Commons About 28 living species […]