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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live young, researchers from Nanjing University and University of Bristol have revealed. Until now, the hard-shelled egg was thought to be the key to the success of the amniotes—a group of vertebrates that undergo embryonic or fetal development within an […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of researchers, including a Virginia Commonwealth University professor, has discovered rare prehistoric instruments made from the bones of birds dating back more than 12,000 years, according to findings published Friday in the journal Scientific Reports. The seven aerophones discovered at Eynan-Mallaha. Credit: © Laurent Davin The seven flutes, […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A fragment of a statue depicting the Greek god Pan, has been unearthed during the excavations in Istanbul’s Saraçhane Archaeological Park. It is a new artifact recently discovered in this area of archaerological excavations that restarted tby he Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s Heritage Department in June 2022. A fragment of the statue of Pan, the Greek […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Medieval religious music is often perceived as being simple, and not particularly flashy or lavish. It often had a function that goes beyond simply being pleasant to listen to, says a University of Oslo researcher. ‘Nuns Convent of the Sacred Heart in Rome’, painted by Karl Bryullov. PH๏τo: Wikiart. “In […]