Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study published in the journal Science finds that around 1.12 million years ago a massive cooling event in the North Atlantic and corresponding shifts in climate, vegetation and food resources disrupted early
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists has found evidence that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding shifts in climate and vegetation played a key role in determining when and where early human species interbred. Modern-day
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists, led by Egyptian researchers, has made a groundbreaking discovery of a new species of extinct whale, Tutcetus rayanensis, that inhabited the ancient sea covering present-day Egypt around 41 million years
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Genetic kinship analyses of human bones reach their limits if the DNA is poorly preserved or if destructive sampling is not possible. New research shows that in such cases, comparisons of the structure and shape
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A luxurious artifact carved out ivory dating from the time of the Kingdom of Judah period (9th–8th centuries BCE) was uncovered during an archaeological excavation carried out in the City of David National Park in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Around 150 so-called circular enclosures are known from the Central and Eastern European Middle Neolithic (first half of the 5th millennium BCE). Only a few of them have been extensively and systematically archaeologically examined. Aerial view
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many ancient cultures used so-called ‘magical mirrors’ to ward off evil forces. The belief in the power of the Evil Eye goes thousands of years back in time. As previously discussed on Ancient Pages, the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Arenaerpeton supinatus was discovered in rocks cut from a nearby quarry that were intended for the building of a garden wall. A 240-million-year-old fossil of an amphibian that was found in a retaining wall in the 1990s
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new DNA study has nuanced the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age and how certain groups of people were actually isolated. The study was carried out by researchers at
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers recently studied the remains of a modern human baby unearthed in the Grotte du Renne (“Reindeer’s cave”) located in Arcy-sur-Cure, Northeast France. The cave is considered as one of the most fascinating Paleolithic sites
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Cattle may seem like uniquely American animals, steeped in the lore of cowboys, cattle drives, and sprawling ranches. However, scientists have found evidence cattle didn’t exist on the American continents prior to the arrival of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a partial skeleton of a whale that lived about 40 million years ago. Researchers say it is possible this is the heaviest animal ever to have lived. Until now, Balaenoptera musculus, the
