Count Dracula: His Letters Helped Researchers Cast New Light On Health Of Legendary Figure
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler, was a 15th century prince and military leader who was so terrifying, he’s thought to have inspired the creation of the literary vampire, Count Dracula. Life-size portrait from the Esterházy ancestral gallery of Forchtenstein Castle/Burgenland. source – Public Domain Now, a scientific examination […]
Red Paint On 1,000-Year-Old Gold Mask From Peru Contains Human Blood Proteins
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Thirty years ago, archeologists excavated the tomb of an elite 40-50-year-old man from the Sicán culture of Peru, a society that predated the Incas. The man’s seated, upside-down skeleton was painted bright red, as was the gold mask covering his detached skull. Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research have […]
Neanderthal And Denisovan Blood Groups Deciphered And The Results Are Surprising
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Learning more about the Neanderthals and Denisovans is significant if we want to understand how these extinct species are related to modern humans. Scientists have now deciphered the blood groups of the Neanderthals and Denisovans and the results are quite surprising offering new insight into human’s evolutionary history. Left: An […]