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The First Circumnavigation of the World Happened by Accident, Not Design
... for a trade route to reach the lucrative Maluku Islands of Indonesia, known as the Spice Islands. The Portuguese ...
Cecilia Bogaard - 22/09/2022 - 01:57
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New Evidence Confirms ‘Hobbit’ was Ancient Human Species
... floresiensis, were discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia and were dated to have lived between 95,000 and ...
aprilholloway - 17/07/2013 - 13:32
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Rice Goddesses - Earth Mothers who Influenced Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld
... who is also associated with the sky, clouds and water. Indonesia’s goddess Dewi Sri is associated with rice and ...
MartiniF - 18/12/2017 - 15:27
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‘Made in China’ Mark Names the Source of Java Shipwreck Cargo
... an unknown ship that sank in the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia. While the identity of the ship remains ...
Ed Whelan - 17/05/2018 - 22:55
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500 Years Ago Today Magellan and Elcano Set Sail to Conquer the World
... sail to the ‘Spice Islands’, now the Maluku Islands in Indonesia. 239 brave men boarded five ships, and to evade the ...
ashley cowie - 10/08/2019 - 12:54
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Conquering the Dark: Finding the Light Behind Paleolithic Cave Art
Fascinating scientific experiments at Isuntza 1 Cave in the Basque region of Spain have attempted to replicate Paleolithic lighting conditions. The work is inspired by a desire to understand and recreate how Paleolithic cave dwellers might have travelled, lived in, and created art in the depths of their caves.
Sahir - 19/06/2021 - 22:54
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Ketchup Actually Originated in… Ancient China?
... fish sauce made in China, which then spread to Vietnam and Indonesia. Remembered as a dark soya-like liquid sauce, ...
Cecilia Bogaard - 16/12/2022 - 22:03
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Atlantis: Examining the Legendary Tale of Plato
... or even in more exotic locations such as Antarctica and Indonesia. Of course more mainstream studies point to the ...
Christos Djonis - 25/05/2021 - 14:55
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Wild Men of the Ancient World: Legends Across the Globe Tell of a Humanoid Beast – Are They Real?
... in the remote forests on the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia, Almas in Mongolian folklore , the Bukit Timah ...
Sarah P Young - 13/08/2019 - 14:01
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Singing Dogs Study May Tell Us More About Human Vocalization
A new study of a rare, unique breed of domesticated dog, originally from Papua New Guinea and believed to be extinct decades ago, has found that they still exist in the wild.
Ed Whelan - 02/09/2020 - 00:00
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Last Hominin Standing: Extreme Adaptation of Late Pleistocene Humans
How is our species unique compared to other hominins? What did Late Pleistocene humans have that their neighbors lacked? They obviously interacted, but Homo sapiens survived when others could not. A new study shows evidence that a big plus for the survival of Late Pleistocene humans was their flexibility.
ancient-origins - 30/04/2020 - 13:59
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Making America Great Again, With Some Seriously Ancient Trash Talk
... Modern day mountain of garbage in Bantar Gebang, Indonesia , with excavators and trash treasure hunters. ( CC ...
ashley cowie - 02/10/2018 - 19:07
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The Rarely Told Story of Pre-Colonial Philippines
... islands were influenced by writing systems from India and Indonesia. Unfortunately, very few texts survive from that ... suggested that it might have been spread by merchants from Indonesia and India. It has also been proposed that some ...
Caleb Strom - 01/10/2018 - 23:04
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Prehistoric teeth found in China may point to mysterious new human species
... Denisovans in Asia and the "hobbit" Homo floresiensis in Indonesia: plus there was a mysterious fourth group from ...
lizleafloor - 27/01/2015 - 00:41
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Study Reveals Rare Aboriginal Rock Art’s Link With Sorcery and Magic
... have been found, one also in Australia and another in Indonesia. The images include some four doll-like human ...
Ed Whelan - 26/05/2020 - 00:15
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This Ancient Four-Limbed Fish Reveals the Origins of the Human Hand
... Funerary Fish Hooks Indicate Women Fished in Ancient Indonesia How (Most) Humans Lost Their Tails - From Fish to ...
ancient-origins - 19/03/2020 - 13:05
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Black Market Bounty: Experts Find Coins Sewn into Clothes at Shipwreck
... East India Company (VOC) that controlled much of modern Indonesia at this time. It set off with a cargo of silver to ...
Ed Whelan - 30/07/2018 - 22:52
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5 Incredible Human Species That Went Extinct (Video)
Robbie Mitchell - 20/01/2024 - 19:53
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Genetic Study Suggests Denisovans Were the Mythological Rakshasas
... combined the Malaysian peninsular with the islands of Indonesia through till the end of the last ice age. Portrait ... event involving Denisovans and indigenous peoples of Indonesia and the Philippines had previously been found ...
Andrew Collins - 08/12/2019 - 18:33
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Why and How Different Cultures Bury the Dead
... can be found lining cliffs also in the Philippines, Indonesia, and other regions. China.org quotes Li Jing, who ...
ancient-origins - 04/06/2014 - 00:05