Arrowhead Made Of Meteoritic Iron From The Late Bronze Age Settlement Of Mörigen, Switzerland – Examined
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – During a search for artifacts made of meteoritic iron, archaeologists accidentally found a Bronze Age arrowhead stored in the Bern History Museum’s collection. Fig. 1. a–b. a) Overview of the Mörigen arrowhead. Note adhering bright sediment material. Remnants of an older label on the left of the sample number. Total […]
Ancient Tomb Of William The Conqueror’s Nephew Discovered In Exeter
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Exeter, UK, have made several intriguing finds this season. For the first time in 150 years, scientists have the opportunity to conduct archaeological excavations in the Quire area of the 900-year-old Exeter Cathedral. The work has already been hailed a success, and scientists report they have uncovered […]
Do Neanderthal Genes Determine Our Skin Color And Sleep Patterns?
AncientPages.com – Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins. It’s difficult to imagine why our early ancestors would have mated with them. Neanderthals were a different species to us after all, and the thought of it seems distasteful to us […]
DNA Of 10,000-Year-Old Luzio Solves The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Sambaqui Builders
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new DNA study reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral population that settled the Americas at least 16,000 years ago and gave rise to all present-day Indigenous peoples, such as the Tupi. Based on the largest set […]
New Species Of Plant-Eating Dinosaur Identified In Thailand
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new species of dinosaur was discovered in Northeastern Thailand, in 2012, and now, a team of multidisciplinary experts in paleontology led by Sita Manitkoon of the Palaeontological Research and Education Center of Mahasarakham University, Thailand, presents their research that have focused on this previously unknown species, later named Minimocursor […]
Bees Originated From An Ancient Supercontinent Millions Of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The origin of bees is tens of millions of years older than most previous estimates, a new study shows. A team led by Washington State University researchers traced the bee genealogy back more than 120 million years to an ancient supercontinent, Gondwana, which included today’s continents of Africa and […]
Curious Ice Age Figurine Of Unidentified Animal Species Puzzles Scientists
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – When archaeologists discovered the ancient figurine, they ᴀssumed it was a horse, but this is not the case. Scientists have now uncovered a new fragment that fits the Ice Age figurine. Obviously, it depicts another animal, but which one? The first archaeological find was made more than 20 years ago […]
Climate Change Likely Drove Early Human Species To Extinction – Scientists Say
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to survive. A study combining climate modeling and the fossil record in search of clues to what led to all those earlier extinctions of our ancient ancestors suggests […]
Extremely Rare And Tiny Medieval Sundial Discovered In Germany
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An extraordinary Medieval sundial has been discovered in the old town of Marburg, Germany. Students at Marburg University had been excavating the site of a church in the old town when they came across the pocket-sized sundial. An extremely rare sundial from the 1500s, found in a German town. It’s […]
King Tabnit’s Sarcophagus And Its Surprising Forever-Lost Secret
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The sarcophagus of Tabnit was unearthed in 1847. At first glance, it appeared as an ordinary ancient sarcophagus, but the inscription came with a warning. When the workers opened the ancient coffin, they understood this was an unusual archaeological discovery. Who Was King Tabnit? Tabnit was the Phoenician King of […]