AncientPages.com – In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with that of the 14th-century
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Iron Age in the highland region of Pang Mapha, northwestern Thailand, was characterized by a unique mortuary practice known as the Log Coffin culture. Between 2,300 and 1,000 years ago, individuals were buried in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new interesting DNA study reveals that the Blackfoot people trace their ancestry to a previously unknown genetic lineage that dates back approximately 18,000 years when humans first inhabited the Americas. Six Blackfeet Chiefs painted
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Emperor Wu, who reigned from 543 to 578, was a prominent figure in China’s Northern Zhou dynasty. He is most notably recognized for his significant contributions to strengthening the military forces, subduing the Turks, and consolidating
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – According to recent scientific findings, new DNA sequencing technologies have successfully identified the historical remains of George Washington’s grandnephews – Samuel Walter Washington and George Steptoe Washington Jr., and their mother, Lucy Payne Washington. The study
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Approximately 7,500 years ago, the last communities of hunter-gatherers in Western Europe came into contact with incoming Neolithic farmers. Over time, these hunter-gatherer populations were slowly replaced and absorbed by the farming communities. This period
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ruled by many Emperors, the mighty and vast Roman Empire covered territories that included Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Established in 27 B.C. following the demise of the Roman Republic, the first Roman Emperor,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the early 1990s, excavations took place at Huseby-Klev, an early Mesolithic hunter-fisher site on the Swedish west coast, where a piece of ancient chewing gum was found. The masticates were made out of birch
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new DNA study reveals contact with the Yamnaya people dramatically re-wrote Northern Europeans’ genetic story. The Yamnaya (c. 3300 – 2600 BC – also called Yamna) culture were Nomadic herders living in an area we
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One of the most intriguing archaeological pre-Columbian sites is Teotihuacán, which scientists still know relatively little about. Who were the people who built and lived in Teotihuacán? Established in the northeastern Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacán
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new computational tool detects up to second to third-degree cousins using ancient genomes. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Harvard in the USA have developed
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh and oxygen-poor conditions of the Tibetan Plateau. In the mountainous regions of Asia, yak and
