Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Everyone living outside of Africa today has a small amount of Neanderthal in them. The last Neanderthal died 40,000 years ago, but much of their genome lives and contribute to certain traits in modern humans.
AncientPages.com – Working in the area of the ruins of the Tomb of the Prophet Jonah, destroyed by Isil, archaeologists made a surprising discovery of a previously undiscovered and untouched 600 B.C palace, reports the Telegraph. The Nebi Yunus shrine is
AncientPages.com – On March 2, 537, during the Gothic War, the First Siege of Rome began and lasted for a year and nine days, from March 2, 537, to March 12, 538. The Ostrogothic army was under King Vitiges, an
AncientPages.com – A sanctuary dedicated to the god Mithra, the Indo-Iranian deity Mithra, has been just unearthed at a Roman site of Mariana, created around 100 BC and located on the Island of Corsica. A team of archaeologists led by Philippe
AncientPages.com – On March 1, 1854, Inman Line’s SS City of Glasgow left Liverpool harbor bound for Philadelphia just like she had for the last four years. It had 480 onboard, including 293 emigrants. SS City of Glasgow – the first Atlantic steamship that was
AncientPages.com – It was long believed that Egyptian temple culture was declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Egyptologist Carina van den Hoven who studied the ritual scenes depicted on the walls of
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have found a carefully carved toy in form of a wooden boat with a raised prow like a proud Viking ship, and a hole in the middle where a mast could have been stepped. The artifact was
AncientPages.com – Two fat woman figurines unearthed in the 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük represent elderly women, not the Anatolian mother goddess Cybele as was earlier believed. “These figurines symbolize old women that have high status in the society instead of
