Category: Ancient History

Ancient DNA Reveals History of Hunter-Gatherers in Europe A pair of studies offering the most in-depth look into the lives of Ice Age hunter-gatherers has revealed at least eight previously unknown groups of early Europeans. Until recently, much about the…

Scientists Hope to Solve the Mystery of 163 Child Mummies Discovered in Italy The 200-year-old secrets of the child mummies of the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo in northern Sicily are to be revealed by a British-led team of scientists using X-ray technology.…

518 Million-Year-Old-Rocks Suggest Animal And Human Life May Have First Emerged In China A new study based on an analysis of 518 million-year-old rocks that contain the oldest collection of fossils that researchers have on record. The researchers believe that…

Massive 20,000-year-old armadillo shells of the size of a CAR found in Argentina An extraordinary discovery has been made by a farmer in Argentina who was fortunate enough to stumble across the fossil remains of four enormous Glyptodon fossils in…

Some of the earliest humans in Britain can be identified by 600,000-year-old findings An overlooked archaeological site outside of Canterbury turned out to contain some of the oldest human-made tools in Britain. Many of the artifacts were found in the…

9,000-year-old Site near Jerusalem is the “Big Bang” of Prehistory Settlement A huge 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement — the largest ever discovered in Israel, say archaeologists — is currently being excavated outside Jerusalem, researchers said in mid-2019. This site, located near…

Genetics Cracks Origins of Two Mysterious People: Scythians and Basques Genetic analysis is all the rage and two separate studies have provided new insights into two peoples: the Scythians of yore, and the Basques of today. The story of the Scythians is one of…