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Neanderthal Hybrid
31 March, 2013 - 12:06 ancient-origins

Human-Neanderthal Hybrids discovered

In a recent scientific paper, a skeleton found in Italy is suggested to be a Neanderthal-human hybrid. Further analysis is to be done, but if correct then it will prove that humans and Neanderthals...
Ancient Sumerian Temple
31 March, 2013 - 09:08 ancient-origins

New breath-taking ancient temple discovered in ancient Sumeria

The ancient city of Ur was he last capital of the Sumerian empire and was first excavated in southern Iraq in 1930. At about 10 miles from the city, British archaeologists with the help of satellite...
Ancient Egyptian Pot
30 March, 2013 - 07:32 ancient-origins

More light shed into the ancient Egyptian port

Further research into the ancient Egyptian port which had the role of a gateway revealed more than 60 sunken ships, as presented at a recent conference in Oxford discussing the maritime life of...
Exodus Scientific Evidence
29 March, 2013 - 15:02 aprilholloway

The Exodus – Scientific Evidence

The story of the Hebrews departing from Egypt after ‘God’ cursed the Egyptians with ten plagues sounds like a fairy tale in which a vengeful God with superpowers punishes the Egyptians for not...
Ancient Sex Cult Objects
29 March, 2013 - 07:45 ancient-origins

Ancient Sex Cult Objects discovered in Israel

In Northern Israel archaeologists have discovered an ancient Stone Age village and while the findings show how agricultural revolution was happening in Stone Age, they have also discovered sex...
Ancient Medicine
28 March, 2013 - 11:47 ancient-origins

More than 20,000 years ago humans used plants for medicine

Even if archaeological research shows that the first farming of plants started about 11,000 ago in China, where we have the first evidence for cultivation of plants, new research shows that humans...
Social Networking in Ancient Times
28 March, 2013 - 08:52 ancient-origins

Social Networking in Ancient Times

Of course there was no internet back then … but the intrinsic need of humans for socializing was active back in 13 th Century in different forms. After studying ceramic and obsidian artefacts from...
William Bramley Interview - The Gods of Eden
27 March, 2013 - 17:04 ancient-origins

A very interesting Interview with William Bramley

William Bramley , author of one of the most popular books on ancient astronaut theory, Gods of Eden , has given an exclusive interview for the readers of Ancient-Origins. In this interview he...
Rocky Alien Planets
27 March, 2013 - 14:09 ancient-origins

Rocky Alien Planets May Contain Oceans

A new study carried out by the Carnegie Institution for Science has found that all rocky planets develop oceans shortly after forming, suggested that planets hosting life may be much more common than...
Prehistoric Indian Skull
27 March, 2013 - 11:31 ancient-origins

Prehistoric American Indian Skull Found in Kansas City

Two teenagers in Kansas City have stumbled upon the skull and tooth of a woman that is many centuries old. The discovery of the skull was initially believed to be that of a homicide victim,...
New Ancient Structures in Mexico
26 March, 2013 - 19:06 ancient-origins

New unknown structures found in Mexican archaeology zone

In Mexico city in the archaeological zone of El Tajin, a researcher has uncovered some ancient structures - two of them are unknown types of structures (referred to with the name ‘balconies’)...
Radio Telescope
26 March, 2013 - 08:40 ancient-origins

New radio telescope will be built to search for extra-terrestrial life

The creation of a new radio telescope called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is set to begin in 2017 and will be the most powerful radio astronomy telescope in the world. Its’ purpose is to search...
Life on Mars
25 March, 2013 - 18:28 ancient-origins

Life may have appeared on Mars before Earth

The recent discovery revealing that Mars could have supported microbial life raises the possibility that life could have evolved on Mars before it developed on Earth. According to researchers, the...
Alien Traits
25 March, 2013 - 13:58 ancient-origins

Could Aliens be among us?

Both Ancient-origins and myself just started following each other on Twitter and I asked a question on Ancient-origins twitter feed regarding whether aliens could be among us with trying to explain...
Million year human ancestors
25 March, 2013 - 08:52 ancient-origins

New discoveries surrounding 1.5 million-year-old human ancestor

Researchers studying ‘Turkana Boy’, a well preserved 1.5 million-year-old child or adolescent from the Homo erectus species, have discovered that he may not have had a congenital bone disorder such...
Hierapolis - Gate to Hell
24 March, 2013 - 16:12 ancient-origins

A gate to the ‘Underworld’ found in Turkey

In the ancient ruins of Hierapolis in Turkey, archaeologists have discovered an ancient ‘Gate to the Underworld’. In ancient Greek and Roman Mythology, there were many different places on Earth where...
DNA Mutation Rate
24 March, 2013 - 09:17 ancient-origins

DNA research challenges major dates in Human Evolution

A team led by Johannes Krause of Tuingen University has done research on genomes using samples from some of the oldest human fossils in Europe. The research has shown that hunters from before the ice...
Early Humans Footprints
23 March, 2013 - 15:59 ancient-origins

Early humans probably walked in a different way

In a recent research at the University of Liverpool in the UK publishes in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Karl Bates and a team of researchers have analysed how a footprint is associated...
Sundial Egypt Valley of the Kings
23 March, 2013 - 09:11 ancient-origins

Ancient Sundial Discovered in the Valley of the Kings

Archaeologists may have discovered the world’s oldest ancient Egyptian sundial, dating to the 13 th Century BC. The sundial, which is made of a flat piece of limestone divided into 12 sections, was...
Neaderthal genetic map
22 March, 2013 - 07:07 ancient-origins

Complete Genetic Map of a Neanderthal Revealed

Scientists from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have sequenced the entire genome of a Neanderthal using a toe bone found in a cave in Siberia. The research team used...

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