Forgotten Ancient Ugarit: One Of The Flourishing And Oldest Cities Of Canaan
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The forgotten ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit was discovered in 1928 by a local farmer plowing his field. He was unaware that he accidentally came across the remains of an old seaport at its political, religious, and economic greatness around the 12th century BC. Artifacts from the ancient city of […]
2,000-Year-Old Skull Reveals Ancient Romans May Have Been The First To Breed Flat-Faced Dogs
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A 2,000-year-old skull unearthed in a tomb may offer evidence ancient Romans were the first to breed dogs with flat faces. Examination of the skull shows that the dog resembled a French bulldog. A 2,000-year-old skull of a dog resembling a small bulldog was found in a tomb. Credit: Wrocław […]
Remains at Crenshaw Site Are Local, Ancestors Of Caddo – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Hundreds of human skulls and mandibles recovered from the Crenshaw site in southwest Arkansas are the remains of ancestors of the Caddo Nation and not foreign enemies, according to a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. John Samuelsen conducting gradiometry survey at the Crenshaw site in southwest […]
Study: Paleo-Americans Hunted Mastodons, Mammoths And Other Megafauna In Eastern North America 13,000 Years Ago
AncientPages.com – The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed cat ready to pounce, or a group of elephantlike mammoths stripping tree branches. Maybe a herd of giant bison would stampede past. Animals that shared the landscape with […]
Riddle Of Asgardians – New Clues About Origin Of Complex Life Trace Roots To A Common Ancestor
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Thor, the legendary Norse god from the mythological city of Asgard, is not alone. According to groundbreaking research published in the journal Nature, we humans—along with eagles, starfish, daisies and every complex organism on Earth—are, in a sense, Asgardians. Analyzing the genomes of hundreds of different microbes called archaea, researchers at […]
Multiple Species Of Semi-Aquatic Dinosaur May Have Roamed Pre-Historic Britain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton (UK) studying a British dinosaur tooth have concluded that several distinct groups of spinosaurs — dinosaurs with fearsome crocodile-like skulls — inhabited southern England over 100 million years ago. The team, from the University’s EvoPalaeoLab, carried out a series of tests on the 140 […]
‘Viking Disease’ Hand Disorder May Come From Neanderthal Genes
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows that a condition known as Dupuytren’s disease is partly of Neanderthal origin. Researchers have long known that the disease was much more common in Northern Europeans than in those of African ancestry. Credit: Adobe Stock – Lazy_Bear Dupuytren’s disease is a disorder affecting […]
Laos Fossil Reveals Modern Humans Left Africa And Reached Asia Much Earlier Than Previously Thought
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do. When our early Homo sapiens ancestors first arrived in Southeast Asia on their way from Africa to Australia, they left evidence of their presence in the form […]
First Discovery Of A 127-Million-Year-Old Side-Necked Turtle Fossil In UK
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first side-necked turtle ever to be found in the U.K. has been discovered by an amateur fossil collector and paleontologists at the University of Portsmouth. The fossil remains are the earliest of a so-called side-necked pan-pleurodiran turtle, named as such because they fold their neck into their shell sideways when threatened. […]
‘Incredibly Rare’ Roman Tomb Unearthed Near London Bridge Station
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists report discovering an “incredibly rare” Roman tomb near London Bridge Station, UK. Last year, archaeologists found very largest Roman mosaics at the same site, and scientists understood something much bigger might be hidden beneath the ground. Excavations carried out by MOLA archaeologists on behalf of Landsec and Transport for […]