Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Excavating ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once thriving medieval Ashkenazi Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany. The findings in the Journal Cell show that the Erfurt
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Mating patterns could actually help explain many supposedly biological relationships between traits, researchers say Many estimates of how strongly traits and diseases share genetic signals may be inflated, according to a new UCLA-led study
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Andrew Nelson studies bioarchaeology, in part, because it allows him to understand how people lived thousands of years ago. And while he has traveled the world investigating ancient mummies, his latest adventure with King Tut
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Deep in the vaults at Nationalmuseet, Denmark, is a unique axe. The Medieval axe is unusual for many reasons. It was put in a box D234/1992, and more or less forgotten. No one bothered to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A monumental structure dating back to the 7th century B.C. has been unearthed during excavations at the Karmir Blur (Red Hill – also known as historical Teishebaini), now an archaeological site, but once the capital of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains evolved. A study published in Science—led by Nicholas Strausfeld, a Regents
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A rare and well-preserved bone flute has been unearthed in Kent, UK. Scientists discovered the flute dating back to the 13th-15th Century while excavating at an archaeological site near Herne Bay. The Medieval musical instrument
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new analysis of several Roman coins unearthed in 1713—long thought to be forgeries—suggests that they are authentic, providing evidence that the leader portrayed on one of the coins was indeed in power during the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Submerged below the waves of the English Channel lies an important scientific record of undiscovered Neanderthal artifacts dating back to the last ice age. Collecting them from beneath the channel’s cold waters is no easy
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The world’s major writing systems have tended to simplify over time, with a notable exception: New research shows that the Chinese writing system has become increasingly complex over the course of its 3000-year history. Chinese
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The well-preserved remains of an ancient winepress have been found near the Roman fort Apsaros (today’s Gonio near Batumi, Georgia). The Polish-Georgian team of archaeologists said that the installation almost certainly formed part of a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists report sonar images reveal an intriguing shipwreck resting at the bottom of Lake Mjøsa in Norway. Though this is Norway’s largest lake marine archaeologists say the lake is more like a miní-ocean or large
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A rather incredible discovery occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland, where a woman found a 135-year-old message in a bottle under her floorboards. Everything started in October 1877 when two local workers left a note under the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – More than 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. This linguistic diversity is passed on from one generation to the next, similarly to biological traits. But have language and genes evolved in parallel over the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – On the 81st anniversary of the sinking of the Australian warship HMAS Sydney (II) and the disguised German raider HSK Kormoran following a battle off the coast of Western Australia during WWII, Curtin University has
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The world’s first urban state societies developed in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, some 5,500 years ago. No other artifact type is more symbolic of this development than the so-called beveled rim bowl (BRB), the first mass
