Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – An influential Viking chief had many enemies lurking everywhere. To stay in power, he had to be protected. A hird consisted of hired professional warriors who guaranteed their leader’s safety day and night. They were
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Modern humans co-existed and interbred not only with Neanderthals, but also with a related archaic population, we known today as Denisovans. Researchers unexpectedly discovered two separate episodes of Denisovan genetic intermixing. They determined that the
Thalia Lightbringer – AncientPages.com – The Cherokee have many wonderful legends. Some of the most interesting stories involve people who looked just like normal Cherokee but were apparently supernatural beings called the Nunnehi (Nunne’hi). They were not nature spirits or
AncientPages.com – The history of Malta has been re-written. Scientists have evidence that the first people to inhabit Malta arrived 700 years earlier than previously thought. Analysis of ancient soils and DNA revealed that Malta’s first inhabitants came from different parts
AncientPages.com – Today, Sahara is a desert, but about 10,000 years ago this region of the world was green and fertile grassland. While excavating at a site named Takarkori in south-western Libya, archaeologists found as many as 200,000 seeds in small
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Peru have found thousands of stone objects that could offer more information about the first people who inhabited Peru. Based on the preliminary examination of the artifacts, researchers estimate the first settlers arrived in Peru between
AncientPages.com – Researchers in Argentina report they have discovered remains of a giant bear of the late Pleistocene, near Buenos Aires. It’s an extraordinary find and the skull and jaw of this giant bear are still almost complete. The discovery was made
AncientPages.com – While most of the ancient Bavarians looked genetically like Central and Northern Europeans, one group of individuals had a very different and diverse genetic profile. Members of this group were particularly notable in that they were women whose skulls
AncientPages.com – A set of five Ancient Roman mirror frames have been unearthed in the ruins of an intriguing Roman villa that belonged to a Roman military veteran, and is located near the town Pavlikeni, in Central North Bulgaria. The villa was also
AncientPages.com – While excavating at Fort San Juan, near Morganton, North Carolina scientists have made archaeological discoveries that reveal how early contact between Native Americans and European explorers shaped the history of the American South. Fort San Juan was discovered in 2013.
AncientPages.com – The fact that we use a language today is so obvious that most don’t contemplate when, where and how humans started using a language to communicate. However, the development of a language has long been a scientific puzzle.
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The history of ancient Egypt may sometimes seem very distant, but people living thousands of years ago had many problems and feelings that trouble us today. During the Fifth Dynasty (2,500 B.C. – 2,350 B.C), Egyptian
