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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]