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1. Power Vacuum Caused by Extreme Drought Led to the Spread of Islam

   ... from the neighboring  kingdom of Aksum  (modern-day Ethiopia). This suggests a clear correlation between the ...

   Sahir - 18/06/2022 - 22:50

2. Scholar deciphers oldest known alphabet primer, in ancient Egyptian

   A Dutch Egyptologist recently deciphered the oldest known abecedary or alphabet-like primer on a 3,500-year-old shard of pottery from an Egyptian tomb excavated 20 years ago. The earliest alphabets go back to the 19^th century BC.

   Mark Miller - 28/10/2015 - 23:53

3. Archaeologists Find Hieroglyphics That Shed New Light on the Golden Age of the Meroitic Civilization

   A team of Italian and Russian archeologists says that they have made one of the most important discoveries connected with the history of Nubia. According to the Sudan Antiquities Service, the hieroglyphic inscription uncovered at Abu Erteila, may be the most important discovery in the last decade.

   Natalia Klimczak - 12/01/2016 - 14:54

4. The Colossi of Memnon: Why Did the Giant Statue Sing at Dawn?

   ... lived during the time of the Trojan War . As the King of Ethiopia , Memnon led his soldiers to Troy, where they fought ...

   dhwty - 21/11/2019 - 23:25

5. Archaeologists to seek remains of new human species in South African Cave

   ... a 2.8 million-year old skeleton discovered at Hadar in Ethiopia in 1974—still one of the most complete hominid ...

   aprilholloway - 08/11/2013 - 05:46

6. Five Surprising Things DNA has Revealed About our Ancestors

   Researchers recently used DNA from the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man”, one of Britain’s oldest skeletons, to unveil what the first inhabitants of what now is Britain actually looked like. But this isn’t the first time DNA from old skeletons has provided intriguing findings about our ancestors. Rapid advances in genetic sequencing over the past few decades have opened up a whole new window into the past.

   ancient-origins - 20/02/2018 - 13:57

7. As The Days of Noah Were: The Sons of God and The Coming Apocalypse

   ... we will explore stories from Babylon, Greece, Ireland, Ethiopia, and various other cultures around the world, to ...

   ancient-origins - 09/05/2019 - 22:40

8. 15 Leaps Forward in Our Understanding of Human Evolution in 2023

   2023 could likely be viewed as a coming-of-age story for our Neanderthal cousins, as they further shed their brutish image, revealing themselves as skilled hunters and surprising artisans. We learned so much about the Neanderthals capabilities, that some researchers even started to question whether they were really a separate species to us!

   There were also revelations about our own lineage stretching back further, blurring the lines between species and rewriting the timeline of our emergence.

   ancient origins - 01/01/2024 - 16:55

9. Cave Provides 78,000 Years of Cultural and Technological Evolution in East Africa

   An international, interdisciplinary group of scholars working along the East African coast have discovered a major cave site which records substantial activities of hunter-gatherers and later, Iron Age communities. Detailed environmental research has demonstrated that human occupations occur in a persistent tropical forest-grassland ecotone, adding new information about the habitats exploited by our species, and indicating that populations sought refuge in a relatively stable environment.

   ancient-origins - 10/05/2018 - 02:03

10. Royal Scandal in the Court of The Queen of Denmark-Norway

    During the latter half of the 18^th century, Denmark-Norway was ruled by a king by the name of Christian VII. His wife was Caroline Matilda of Great Britain. Christian’s reign, which lasted from 1788 until his death in 1808, was colored by the king’s insanity. Due to Christian’s mental illness, he was only nominally king, and power was in the hands of whoever controlled the court at the time. At one point of time, it was the king’s physician, Johann Friedrich Struensee, who was in charge of the affairs of state.

    dhwty - 01/06/2016 - 03:39

11. Yale Archaeologist Discovers Ancient Mancala Game Boards in Kenya's Highlands

    ... around 700 AD, with early evidence found in Eritrea and Ethiopia. It is thought its true origins could go back much ...

    Gary Manners - 03/02/2024 - 16:48

12. The Missing Prince And The Missing Papyri

    A strange mystery baffled Egyptologists when opening the tombs of kings who had been laid to rest in The Valley of the Kings.

    Calumy - 17/07/2020 - 21:34

13. The Immovable Ladder: Bizarre Feud Prevents Ordinary Ladder Being Moved for 3 Centuries

    The Immovable Ladder is an ordinary wooden ladder with an extraordinary history. It was placed under a window on the exterior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem and, due to a long-running feud, has remained there for close to three centuries.

    dhwty - 24/04/2021 - 01:58

14. The Maasai Legend Behind Ancient Hominin Footprints in Tanzania

    In 1976 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey and other scientists reported that they’d found ancient hominin footprints at a site in Laetoli, northeastern Tanzania. The footprints were frozen in volcanic deposits from the Pliocene, an epoch that lasted from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.

    ancient-origins - 01/07/2019 - 19:01

15. Fact or Fiction? The Obscure Origins of the Greek Alexander Romance

    ... an island in the Upper Nile that marked the boundary with Ethiopia, perhaps an early center of the ivory trade. ...

    David Grant - 04/11/2021 - 13:02

16. The Kilwa Sultanate: The Island State That Dominated Medieval East Africa

    The Kilwa Sultanate was a powerful and prosperous city-state that once dominated the Swahili coast of East Africa. For centuries, this kingdom thrived as a hub of international trade, connecting the African continent to the wider Indian Ocean world. Its rise to power was marked by strategic alliances, skilled diplomacy and a thriving economy, while its downfall was shaped by a combination of internal conflicts, external pressures and changing global trade patterns.

    Robbie Mitchell - 16/05/2023 - 14:54

17. Antarctica's Origins Update – Part One: Deglaciation Reveals More Amazing Secrets

    ... 'Lucy', an Australopithecus afarensis discovered in Ethiopia 40 years ago. Lucy was a rather lightly built ... ancestral line, albeit 'Lucy's skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia and the portrait of 'Luciana' (well, why not?) was ...

    William James Veall - 07/06/2018 - 18:57

18. Optical Illusions: The Challenge of Tracing Human Origins

    ... to at least a million years old. After new discoveries in Ethiopia, that number jumped to two million. The wide ...

    Tashi Javed - 04/10/2014 - 23:53

19. Blood-Stained Ivory: The Dark History of the Trade in Elephant Tusks

    ... BC, Indians were importing large amounts of ivory from Ethiopia. At the same time, ivory from Indian elephants was ...

    Robbie Mitchell - 26/03/2023 - 18:39

20. Subterranean ‘Water Tank’ Is Actually the Oldest Christian Church in Russia, Say Nuclear Physicists

    ... Religion: Abba Yohani and the Clandestine Cave Churches of Ethiopia Saint Lazarus Church and the Tomb of the Man Jesus ...

    ancient-origins - 13/07/2019 - 14:14

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