Restorations At Stratonicea Ancient City Of Gladiators In Turkish Muğla Province

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An old city of Stratonikeia Stratonicea) has rich historical records going back 3,000 years. The council building at the ancient city of Stratonicea, in Mugla, Türkiye, May 6, 2023. Image credit: AA PH๏τo – via Daily Sabah It played host to many civilizations that left artifacts belonging to the Hellenistic, […]

A Surprising Relationship Between The Teeth And The Evolution Of Pregnancy – Study

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Humans have the highest prenatal growth rate of all extant primates, but how this exceptional rate came about has been a mystery up to now. Leslea Hlusko, a scientist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has participated in a study led by Tesla Monson, a […]

Manuscripts And Art Support Evidence That Syphilis Was In Europe Long Before Explorers Could Have Brought It Home

AncientPages.com – That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a mᴀssive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the past 50 years. Does a painting from 1400 depict one of Jesus’ torturers as suffering from ‘saddle nose,’ a common effect of syphilis? Detail of an Austrian […]

Did Human Middle Ear Evolve From Fish Gills? – Chinese Fossils Reveal

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear. The 3D braincase of Shuyu. Credit: IVPP Embryonic and fossil evidence proves that the human middle ear evolved from the spiracle of […]

Milk Enabled Mᴀssive Steppe Migration – A New Study

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Already in the Bronze Age, pastoralists covered long distances across the Eurasian steppes – presumably thanks to their consumption of milk. The Yamnaya, one of the earliest pastoralist populations of the Eurasian steppe, began expanding out of the Pontic-Caspian steppe more than 5000 years ago. These migrations resulted in gene […]

Researchers Sequenced 137 Human Genomes From The Middle East

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Middle East region is important to understand human evolution and migrations but is underrepresented in genomic studies. Whole-genome sequencing efforts around the world have offered important insights into human diversity, historical migrations, and the relationships between people of different regions—but scientists still don’t have a complete picture because some […]

Bronze Age Vatya Culture: ‘Urnfield’ Cemetery And Remains Of A High-Status Woman

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers analyzed human tissues of 29 individuals (26 urn cremations and 3 inhumations) from Szigetszentmiklós-Ürgehegy, one of the largest Middle Bronze Age urn cemeteries in Hungary. The site is located in the northern part of the Csepel Island (a few kilometers south of Budapest) and was in use between c. […]

New Type Of Early Previously Unknown Human Discovered In Israel

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have identified remains of a new, previously unknown type of ‘​Homo’ who lived in the region at the Nesher Ramla site side by side in the Levant for more than 100,000 years (200-100,000 years ago).  These people shared knowledge and tool technologies. Static skull & mandible & parietal orthographic. […]