Archaeologists Discover Ancient Mayan Board Game – Here’s What It Can Teach Modern Educators
AncientPages.com – Games have been played for thousands of years in cultures across the world. There’s the chequerboard game Senet, played in Egypt around BCE 3100. The African cup board game Mancala has been played since BCE 1400. Chess originated in India over 1,500 years ago. And the strategic game Go began in China 2,500 years […]
Why Was The Late Ordovician Mᴀss Extinction Event Odd?
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The Late Ordovician mᴀss extinction event (LOME) has long been viewed as odd compared to other mᴀss extinction events in Earth’s history. Contrary to nearly all other major extinction phases known from the fossil record it appears to be instigated by an ice age. A new study, however, shows […]
Humanity’s Earliest Recorded Kiss Occurred In Mesopotamia 4,500 Years Ago – New Study
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent research has hypothesized that the earliest evidence of human lip kissing originated in a very specific geographical location in South Asia 3,500 years ago, from where it may have spread to other regions, simultaneously accelerating the spread of the herpes simplex virus 1. But according to Dr. Troels Pank […]
Huge Never-Before-Seen Ancient Petroglyphs Discovered In Kville, Bohuslän, Sweden
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Many fascinating archaeological findings have been made in Sweden, but when it comes to petroglyphs, this is one of the biggest discoveries in a long time. Not only are the recently found petroglyphs large in size, but they are also unusual due to their vertical shapes, making it much easier […]
Oldest Human Made Architectural Plans Detail Mysterious Desert Megastructures
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The oldest scale plans of human made megastructures are reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE on May 17, 2023. The engravings, dated to between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, depict nearby desert kites, vast structures used to trap animals. Landscape of Saudi Arabia where the engravings have been found. […]
Early Humans In Europe Were Making Fires At Least 250,000 Years Ago – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Fire has played an important role in human life since the dawn of history. Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland have found that early humans in Europe were making and controlling fire at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. Credit: Adobe Stock – Gorodenkoff In a paper published in the […]
Surprising Diversity Of Ethnic Groups In The US Virgin Islands Before Columbus – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – When Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day US Virgin Islands on his second voyage across the Atlantic in 1493, the islands were already inhabited—but how and when the islands of St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas were originally populated remains uncertain. Source Now, a research team present a chemically-based […]
Fossil Of Mosasaur With Bizarre ‘Screwdriver Teeth’ Found In Morocco
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike those of any known reptile. Credit: Fossils (2023). DOI: 10.3390/fossils1010002 Along with other recent finds from Africa, it suggests that mosasaurs and other marine reptiles were evolving rapidly up […]
Different Approach Gives New Understanding Of Human Evolution In Africa
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But many uncertainties remain, and competing theories about where, when, and how. An international research team led by McGill University and the University of California-Davis suggest that, based on contemporary genomic evidence from across the continent, there were humans living […]
Earliest Sea Scorpion From China Found In End-Ordovician Anji Biota In Zhejiang
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata), normally known as sea scorpions, are an important extinct group of Paleozoic chelicerate arthropods. Life reconstruction of Archopterus anjiensis. Credit: Yang Dinghua A new Ordovician eurypterid, Archopterus anjiensis, from the latest Ordovcian (Hirnantian) Anji Biota of Zhejiang Province, South China, have been described by researchers led […]