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  1. Madagascar Cave Art Reveals Captivating Africa-Asia Connections

    ... ancient connections to Borneo, an island in south-east Asia, combined with strong influences from continental ... IV Epiphanes ? This king of the Seleucid Empire (western Asia) in the Ptolemaic period built a large navy, conquered ... Cave Art Hints at Ancient Connections Between Africa and Asia ’ by David Burney was originally published on The ...

    ancient origins - 13/12/2023 - 21:56

  2. World’s Largest Geoglyphs Found in India’s Thar Desert

    ... study published in the journal Archaeological Research in Asia . The previous record was held by “The Marree Man” ... and Yohann Oetheimer / Archaeological Research in Asia ) The Immense Thar Desert Geoglyphs: Found With Drones ... and Yohann Oetheimer / Archaeological Research in Asia ) The Thar Desert geoglyphs lines are etched into the ...

    Sahir - 27/05/2021 - 22:47

  3. Puzzling Prehistoric Posts: The Enigmatic Spirit Poles of Eurasia

    Totem poles are often seen as quintessential features of the Northwest Coast of America. Simon Fraser University lists ten types of American totem pole, which indicate their diversity and how the term “totem” can be misleading when applied to them. Over in Eurasia, there is a similar idea – spirit poles.

    Alistair - 16/01/2019 - 23:00

  4. Where in the World are our Neanderthal and Denisovan Ancestors?

    ... visualization of the peak of Denisova proportion in South Asia. ( Sankararaman et al./Current Biology 2016 ) The ...

    ancient-origins - 31/03/2016 - 03:52

  5. The Year of the Four Emperors, Ancient Rome's Epic Saga

    The Roman emperor Nero was the last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. During his rule, he was disdained by his people because of his vanity and inadequacies as leader.  He had one wife executed and he murdered another with a fatal kick.  All this resulted in a great conspiracy against him, and he was compelled to commit suicide on June 9, AD 68.  What followed was the Year of the Four Emperors, a time of chaos as four different men of high social standing declared themselves emperor, each with his own army of loyal supporters.  They cl

    Miriam Kamil - 27/11/2023 - 13:57

  6. Smithsonian releases massive digitized collection of Asian treasures for public use

    ... public resource, called " Open F/S ", is available at open.asia.si.edu . ' Four Mandala Vajravali Thangka' (c. 1430), ...

    aprilholloway - 04/01/2015 - 01:02

  7. 2,000-Year-Old Unknown Kushan Language Is Finally Deciphered

    Since the 1960s, archaeologists in Central Asia have found rocks carved with a mysterious unknown ... language. Since the 1960s, archaeologists in Central Asia have found rocks carved with a mysterious unknown ... from the 1st to 3rd centuries AD. Spanning Central Asia and parts of South Asia, Kushan religion was influenced ...

    ashley cowie - 13/07/2023 - 23:00

  8. First Ice Age May Have Led to Epic Hominin Migration 900,000 Years Ago

    About one million years ago there was a mass exodus of hominin species out of Africa and into Eurasia. Human ancestors fled their home continent in droves, raising questions about why this would have occurred.

    Nathan Falde - 13/03/2024 - 16:55

  9. Scientists Say A Mystery Species Bred with Ancient Humans in Distant Past

    ... these people met and bred with a mystery hominin in south Asia or the Pacific region, who left their genetic legacy in ... the mystery species was Homo erectus, which was present in Asia between about  1.8 million and 33,000 years ago . ... have contributed to the unidentifiable DNA segments. “Asia is a bit of a nightmare in terms of the number of ...

    aprilholloway - 26/07/2016 - 02:58

  10. 17,000-Year-Old Skulls Discovered On Migration ‘Highway To Oz’

    ... into ancient human migration routes through Southeast Asia to Australia, but it also unveils a host of new avenues ... find in Australia and other parts of mainland Southeast Asia during the same period,” - where humans generally have ... migration into Europe and spreading across Asia and finally reaching Australia . Thus, according to this ...

    ashley cowie - 27/08/2019 - 14:04

  11. Did the Hyksos Pull Off a Peaceful Invasion of Egypt?

    ... Egyptians, but came from the East, most likely Western Asia.  The Hyksos were a dynasty of kings who ruled over the ... Egyptians, but came from the East, most likely Western Asia. Traditionally, the Hyksos are depicted negatively, and ... ‘Hyksos’ refers to a group of foreign rulers from West Asia, rather than to an ethnic group. Additionally, the word ...

    dhwty - 19/12/2019 - 13:45

  12. Magic Mirror With Hidden Image Discovered At Cincinnati Museum

    Hiding in plain sight – in the storage of Cincinnati Art Museum’s East Asian art collection, a seemingly unremarkable bronze mirror from the 15th and 16th century China.

    Sahir - 16/07/2022 - 18:56

  13. Unravelling the Mystery of the Maronite Mummies: Why Were Medieval Mummies Hidden in a Cave?

    When archaeologists found a cache of medieval mummies in a Lebanese cave, the amazing discovery took their breath away. The remarkably well-preserved bodies of eight people who were buried in Qadisha Valley opened the gates to a forgotten story. Imagine this meeting of living researchers and people who died centuries ago – although the faces of the deceased were still recognizable, their names and companions were already long gone.

    Natalia Klimczak - 19/01/2017 - 00:44

  14. Ajina-Tepa, Tajikistan – Abandoned Buddhist Cloister on the Famous Silk Road

    Although Central Asia is no longer inundated by tourists, in the past it was a ... cloister of Ajina-Tepa in Tajikistan. Although Central Asia is no longer inundated by tourists, in the past it was a ... and is regarded as the largest such site in all of Central Asia. The cloister has been added to a tentative list of ...

    Ed Whelan - 22/01/2020 - 01:35

  15. Unsolved Mystery: The Mysterious Origins of Hannibal's Elephants

    ... war elephants originate? Were Hannibal’s elephants from Asia or Africa? Join us on this exploration of a historical ... challenge. The distance between  Carthage  and Asia, as well as the region south of the Sahara where African ...

    mrreese - 04/12/2023 - 13:53

  16. The Enigmatic Cimmerians Crisscrossing The Caspian And Caucasian Steppes

    ... .” ( The Odyssey ) The Cimmerian migrations across West Asia, Assyria and into Europe ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Locating ...

    Willem McLoud - 02/08/2023 - 20:29

  17. Ancient shipwrecks, thousands of years old, may rewrite the history of South East Asia

    ... may force historians to rewrite the history of South-East Asia. The ships may predate the ancient city of Angkor Wat in ... back 4,500 years in Goa The city-states of Southeast Asia were known to the Ancient Greeks as Ptolemy had written ... may force historians to rewrite the history of South-East Asia. Screengrab image via YouTube, The Star Online. By Robin ...

    Robin Whitlock - 03/09/2015 - 15:16

  18. Skull Analysis Concludes the Americas Were Settled by More than One Wave of Migrants

    ... waves of dispersion into the Americas from northeast Asia over the course of several thousand years, with each ... now clear that people entered the Americas from northeast Asia via Beringia by at least 15,000 years ago, and dispersal ... at least two major sources of biological variation from Asia.” Underwater discovery in submerged Mexican cave ...

    Mark Miller - 23/02/2017 - 22:48

  19. Why Did 2,400-Year-Old Stone Idol in Siberia Undergo Racial Realignment to Look Less European?

    ... for this sculpture, the most northerly of this genre in Asia, underwent an historic version of plastic surgery ... Ust-Taseyevsky stone idol to other stone statues in Asia. Picture: Yuri Grevtsov 'The rich archeological material ...

    ancient-origins - 20/10/2016 - 14:49

  20. 2,700-Year-Old Horse Saddle in Chinese Tomb May Be World’s Oldest!

    ... this week in the journal  Archaeological Research in Asia , claims that radiocarbon dating determined the saddle ... Cultural Relics et al., 2019 / Archaeological Research in Asia Archaeological evidence suggests that in China horses ... most often associated with nomadic horse-riders in Central Asia, about the mid-first millennium BC. The Beauty of Loulan ...

    ashley cowie - 27/05/2023 - 14:56

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