Brief History Of Abortion – From Ancient Egyptian Herbs To Fighting Stigma Today
AncientPages.com – You might be forgiven for thinking of abortion as a particularly modern phenomenon. But there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that abortion has been a constant feature of social life for thousands of years. The history of abortion is often told as a legal one, yet abortion has continued regardless of, perhaps even in […]
DNA Reveals Unique Ancestry Of Inhabitants Of The Angolan Namib Desert
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Africa is the birthplace of modern humans and the continent with the highest level of genetic diversity. While ancient DNA studies reveal some aspects of Africa’s genetic structure before the spread of food production, issues concerning DNA preservation have limited the insights from ancient DNA. Credit: Adobe Stock – the_lightwriter […]
Hundreds Of Ancient Sealed Wine Jars Found In Mysterious Tomb Of Meret-Neith In Abydos
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. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Scientists hope the find can shed new light on […]
Cuneiform Tablet Unearthed In Hitтιтe City Samuha Refers To Love And War Goddess Sausga
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The cuneiform tablet unearthed in the Hitтιтe 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 from the sacred site of Yazilikaya near Hattusa, the capital of the Hitтιтes. Image credit: […]
Evidence Of 10,000 Years Of Violent Conflict Among The Hunter-Gatherer Societies In The Atacama Desert
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a new study. Archaeological research supports the notion that interpersonal violence and warfare have played an important role in the lives of hunter-gatherer groups over time, but many […]
Why Was Grette The Strong, Icelandic Poet And Warrior Afraid Of Darkness?
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Grettir’s saga is considered one of the Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This literary work of the unknown author is believed to include stories of events that supposedly took place between the ninth and the eleventh centuries in Iceland. Monument of Grettir the […]
Ancient Board Game Mancala Can Unlock Cutting-Edge Physics Discoveries
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The game mancala may have originated as far back as 6000 BCE in Jordan and is played around the world to this day. It consists of stones that players move between a series of small pits on a wooden game board. The point of the game is to get all the […]
Family Looking For Lost Gold Ring Finds Viking Age Artifacts In Their Garden On The Island Of Jomfruland
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While searching for a missing gold ring with a metal detector, a family in Norway found, to their big surprise, something entirely different in their garden on the island of Jomfruland. Jan Erik Aasvik has a metal detector he almost never uses, but he thought he would try it to […]
Could Arithmetic Be A Universal Truth Waiting To Be Discovered?
AncientPages.com – Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s true. By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues and I have recently shown that arithmetic has biological roots and is a natural consequence of how perception of the world around us […]
Byzantine Greek Inscription Of Psalms 86 Found In Hyrcania
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Koine Greek inscription paraphrasing Psalms 86 was discovered by archaeologists at the site of Hyrcania Fortress in the Judean Desert. Adorned with a cross, the Byzantine-era inscription was likely made by a knowledgeable monk and holds significance as a well-known prayer in the Masoretic text and Christian liturgy. Aerial […]