AI Is Helping Researchers To Read Ancient Mesopotamian Literature
AncientPages.com – [… who s]aw the Deep, […] the country, [who] knew […], […] all […] [… who] saw the Deep, […] the country, [who] knew […], […] all […] Reconstruction of the manuscript K.4981+ from nine discrete fragments previously transliterated in the Fragmentarium. Author provided This first quote represents the beginning of the Epic of Gilgamesh as […]
Early Humans Risked Life -Threatening Flintknapping Injuries – Long-Lasting Tradition
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For at least three million years, knapping stone has been practiced by hominin societies large and small, past and present. Thus, understanding knapping, knappers, and knapping cultures is fundamental to anthropological research around the world. Metin Eren, Ph.D., ᴀssociate professor and director of archeology at Kent State University, demonstrates flintknapping. […]
Early Toilets Reveal Dysentery In Old Testament Jerusalem
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A research team led by the University of Cambridge say it is the oldest example we have of this diarrhea-causing parasite infecting humans anywhere on the planet. The toilet seat taken from the House of Ahiel, excavated in the Old City of Jerusalem. A domestic building made up of seven […]
Fascinating Portable Art From Torre Cave, Gipuzkoa – One Of The Most Complete Specimens From The Entire Iberian Peninsula
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) makes a new technological appraisal of a northern gannet bone that displays complex peri-cylindrical decoration. Researcher Asier Erostarbe, in his laboratory at the University of the Basque Country. Author. Nuria González. Credit: UPV/EHU A study by the UPV/EHU offers a […]
Composition Of A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Perfume Identified For The First Time
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have identified, for the first time, the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of a small vessel of ointment in Carmona. Two thousand years ago, in the Roman city of Carmo (today’s Carmona), in the province of Seville, someone placed a […]
Fossil Tells The ‘Tail’ Of An Ancient Beast
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Approximately 200 million years ago, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa, India, and Australia in a single “supercontinent” called Gondwana. Paleontologists have long wondered about the unique mammals that lived only on this ancient supercontinent, including a particularly elusive group called Gondwanatheria, for which few fossils have been identified. […]
Has The World’s Oldest Saddle Been Found In China?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have unearthed what could be the world’s oldest known saddle. The well-preserved soft leather saddle recovered from the tomb of a female deceased at the Yanghai cemetery site in the Turfan Basin at the eastern end of the Tian Shan mountains. Researchers have now presented a detailed analysis describing […]
Unique And Priceless Large Roman Sculptures Found At Carlisle Cricket Club
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Not so long ago, the public was invited to participate in the Carlisle Roman bath excavation. The project, run by Wardell Armstrong, Cumberland Council and Carlisle Cricket Club, has received £56,700 in funding from the government. The community archaeology project has been a success. The excavations benefited people by increasing […]
DNA Reveals A Previously Unknown Phase Of Humanity’s Great Migration 30,000 Years Ago – What Was The Arabian Standstill?
AncientPages.com – Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. In new research published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, we have uncovered dozens of distinctive historical […]
Lost Since 1362: Researchers Discover The Church Of Rungholt – A Sunken Medieval Trading Place
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The medieval trading center of Rungholt, which is today located in the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage Site and currently the focus of interdisciplinary research, drowned in a storm surge in 1362. The researchers use sediment cores to record settlement remains and to reconstruct landscape evolution at selected sites on […]