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1. Out-of-Africa Yesterday, Australia Today and the Pleiades Tomorrow - Part 2

   Everything fitted perfectly, three times fifty or sixty thousand checked off nicely against the desired number of 150-200,000 years, or so it seemed, until Rebecca Cann decided to delve deeper and sample the Australian Original mtDNA genes herself (which is passed on from generation to generation by women). What she found literally turned the whole Homo sapien sapiens tree upside down.

   strong - 19/07/2013 - 07:16

2. Are Mermaid Myths Inspired by a Rare Medical Condition?

   Mermaids have occupied our imagination for thousands of years. The mesmerizing aquatic creatures, hybrid half-human and half-fish beings, have been spotted in seas around the world and appear in literature and folklore in diverse cultures.

   Joanna Gillan - 27/03/2021 - 00:53

3. Did the Portuguese Have Secret Knowledge about Brazil Before the Treaty of Tordesillas?

   Controversy surrounds the knowledge the Portuguese had about Brazil before they entered into the Treaty of Tordesillas. The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494, was a treaty between Castile (Spain) and Portugal, which divided the lands discovered in the New World.

   Clyde Winters - 27/10/2016 - 14:51

4. Did light-skinned, redheaded Neanderthal women hunt with the men?

   A team of Spanish researchers theorizes, based on grooves and nicks on the teeth of Neanderthals, that gender roles among that species were similar to gender roles of modern Homo Sapiens. Neanderthal men prepared the cutting tools and weapons, while women saw to the leather garments and clothing.

   But there was at least one duty that men and women may have shared: Neanderthal women, these researchers think, hunted big game with the men.

   Mark Miller - 21/02/2015 - 00:35

5. How Queen Artemisia I Won the Admiration of the King of Persia

   ... Caria was an ancient Hellenistic district of Anatolia, or Asia Minor, over which Persia took control around 546 BC. ...

   Mary Mount - 06/06/2021 - 23:00

6. Ancient artifacts and human remains surface as glaciers melt

   ... discoveries … from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Antarctica,” the journal says. In 2013 ...

   Mark Miller - 22/01/2015 - 00:27

7. Mysterious Map Emerges at the Dawn of the Egyptian Civilization and Depicts Antarctica Without Ice – Who Made it?

   On a chilly winter day in 1929, Halil Edhem, the Director of Turkey's National Museum, was hunched over his solitary task of classifying documents.  He pulled towards him a map drawn on Roe deer skin. As Halil opened the chart to its full dimensions (two feet by three feet wide or 60 X 90 cm) he was surprised by how much of the New World was depicted on a map which dated from 1513.

   ancient-origins - 22/07/2017 - 19:08

8. The Mystery Of Whale Bone Alley: Who Built It, And Why?

   ... Island lies 1.5 km (1 mile) off the coast of eastern  Asia , just south of the  Arctic  Circle. Its location at ...

   Bipin Dimri - 07/08/2021 - 18:31

9. Solar Goddess Amaterasu, Divine Ancestor of the Japanese Imperial Family

   ... She Met Shiva Magu: The Hemp Goddess Who Healed Ancient Asia Kobayashi Eitaku, Izanagi and Izanami, c. 1885. ( Public ...

   dhwty - 26/01/2021 - 11:26

10. Bodhisattvas – Selfless Saviors of Mahayana Buddhism

    ... in Chinese and Kannon in Japanese. Incidentally, in East Asia, this bodhisattva was transformed from a male into a ... only become a buddha when all hells are emptied. In East Asia, Ksitigarbha was transformed from a girl into a man. ...

    dhwty - 06/04/2020 - 23:01

11. Gallant Gauls: A Journey Through Ancient Europe

    ... ended with the Gauls being granted safe passage to Asia Minor where they settled in Central Anatolia. Once there ... I of Pergamum. The Galatians continued to pose a threat to Asia Minor even after their defeat by Gnaeus Manlius Vulso in ...

    Robbie Mitchell - 08/05/2024 - 18:07

12. Ancient Ruins of North Korea’s Old Capital Joins World Heritage List

    ... the transition from Buddhism to neo-Confucianism in East Asia.  ‘These valuable cultural relics are the pride of ...

    aprilholloway - 24/06/2013 - 09:51

13. Nine of the Finest: A Run Down of Recent Top Stories

    ... Tokyo ) A new paper published in the  Bulletin of the Asia Institute  argues that an ancient silver bowl found in ...

    ancient-origins - 23/04/2022 - 01:58

14. Ecuador’s Mummy of Guano is the Key to Understanding a Painful Global Disease

    ... conquest, however it was extremely rare in Europe and Asia until later. It is believed that rheumatoid ...

    Alicia McDermott - 31/01/2019 - 22:45

15. Look Up at the Super Blue Blood Full Moon Jan. 31 – Here’s What You’ll See and Why

    ... side of the Earth; this eclipse will be visible mostly in Asia, Australia, the Pacific and North America. But don’t ...

    ancient-origins - 26/01/2018 - 13:58

16. 1,400-Year-Old Chinese Tomb Provides Clues to Sui Dynasty Culture

    During excavations at Anyang, a city in central China’s Henan province, archaeologists from the Anyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology discovered

    Nathan Falde - 08/01/2021 - 17:51

17. Zhoukoudian Homo Erectus: Peking Man was an Evolutionary Dead-End (Video)

    Robbie Mitchell - 11/03/2024 - 23:37

18. Dancing Figurine from Ancient India Travelled Silk Road To Siberia!

    ... Silk Road  trade route became prominent in Europe and Asia roughly in the last two centuries of the BC period. ... “ trade route ” network. One way to travel from Asia to Europe, and vice versa, was  through the lands of ...

    Nathan Falde - 03/05/2021 - 22:57

19. Athens, Home of Democracy: From Antiquity to Modernity

    ... and become the new leader. In 466 BC, the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor were rebelling against the Persians. Seeking to ... League. They then took the fight to Persian territory in Asia Minor. Athenian general Miltiades fighting the Persians ...

    Robbie Mitchell - 19/08/2022 - 01:59

20. DNA Analysis Suggests Cats Chose to Be Domesticated

    According to an extensive DNA analysis of cat genes the domestic cat is descended from wild cats that were tamed twice; once in the Near East and then in Egypt. The study suggests that cats lived for thousands of years alongside humans before they were eventually domesticated.

    Theodoros Karasavvas - 22/06/2017 - 02:00

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