Mysterious Ancient Star-Shaped ‘Fossil’ Baffles Scientists – What Is It?
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –More than 100 years ago, Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Smithsonian Insтιтution was asked to examine strange star-shaped fossils with lobes hailing from the ~ 514-million-year-old Conasauga Formation in Alabama. Walcott described these odd fossils as jellyfish that likely floated in the middle Cambrian seas of what is now the […]
5 Traces Of Ancient Ancestors That Still Exist In All Human Bodies Today
AncientPages.com – Many of us are returning to work or school after spending time with relatives over the summer period. Sometimes we can be left wondering how on earth we are related to some of these people with whom we seemingly have nothing in common (especially with a particularly annoying relative). Credit: Adobe Stock – […]
In The Neanderthal Site Of Combe-Grenal, France: Hunting Strategies Were Unaffected By Changing Climate
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neanderthals in Combe-Grenal (France) preferred to hunt in open environments, and their hunting strategies did not alter during periods of climatic change, according to a study published January 18, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Emilie Berlioz of the CNRS/Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France, and colleagues, as part of research […]
Mystery Of The Man Whose Supernatural Abilities Still Captivate Scientists
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Being different from other kids, he was bullied as a child, and it took many years before he found a real friend. His unusual, unexplained abilities have long fascinated experts, and scientists still argue about what powers he possessed. He is one of the most mysterious people the world of […]
Green Comet Last Seen By The Neanderthals 50,000 Years Ago May Be Visible To The Naked Eye This Week
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The last time comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was spotted was during the Upper Paleolithic period. Our distant relatives, the Neanderthals, watched the comet pᴀss the Earth, but they wouldn’t have known what C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was. Maybe the early homo sapiens alive during the last glacial period or the […]
Mᴀss Production Of Stone Bladelets Led To A Cultural Shift In Paleolithic Levant
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Analysis of stone tools attributed to the Ahmarian, the first Upper Paleolithic culture of the Near East (dated approximately 40,000 to 45,000 years ago) shows that small, elongated, symmetrical objects (bladelets) were mᴀss-produced on-site. Such a standardized production is in line with what archaeologists have already suggested being linked to […]
A Scientific Surprise: Bering Land Bridge Formed Late During Last Ice Age
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – By reconstructing the sea level history of the Bering Strait, scientists found that the strait remained flooded until around 35,700 years ago, not long before humans began migrating into the Americas. Beringia—Bering Land Bridge during deglaciation period. Image credit: GifTagger – Public Domain A new study that reconstructs the […]
Unearthed Ancient Egyptian Tombs At Tel El-Deir Will Rewrite The History Of Damietta – Archaeologists Say
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating at Tel El-Deir in Damietta in Egypt have unearthed several ancient tombs that are simple yet highly significant. Tel El-Deir is an ancient site that dates to at least the Neolithic. Archaeologists have worked at this place for a long time. Some years ago, scientists unearthed stone sarcophagi […]
Intriguing Connection Between Viking Knots And Quantum Structure Discovered
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have shown how three vortices can be linked in a way that prevents them from being dismantled. The structure of the links resembles a pattern used by Vikings and other ancient cultures, although this study focused on vortices in a special form of matter known as a Bose-Einstein […]
Dinosaurs Were On The Up Before Asteroid Downfall – Study Finds
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have long debated why non-bird dinosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, became extinct—whereas mammals and other species such as turtles and crocodiles survived. The new study, led by an international team of paleontologists and ecologists, analyzed 1,600 fossil records from North America. Scientists have long debated why non-bird dinosaurs, […]