Study reveals ancient humans migrated to the Levant from Europe 40,000 years ago
A study of ancient teeth belonging to modern humans and Neanderthals of the Aurignacian culture at Manot Cave in Israel is shedding new light on...
Human Origins
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Researchers find one of the last necklaces made by Neanderthals featuring eagle talons
An excavation in a cave occupied by Neanderthals in Spain has uncovered what is considered to be the last necklace ever made by our distant...
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Legends of the Menehune, mythological dwarf people of Hawaii who may still exist today
All across the world, there are stories about people of giant stature, and also of relatively small people. In the mainstream, these stories are almost...
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New study suggests Homo sapiens were not the first to use fire
For decades, archaeologists have agreed that Homo sapiens were the first to create and use fire some 400,000 years ago, marking a profound turning point...
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Scientists trace modern human lineage to Botswana in Africa, disappointing racists everywhere
It is generally accepted by scientists that modern humans, also known as Homo sapiens, migrated out of eastern Africa around 200,000 years ago. But a...
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Ancient astronaut theorists take note as scientists trace ancestral home of all humans to southern Africa
Mainstream scientists seem to have inadvertently given some support to the ancient astronaut theory again. Recently, we wrote about a “new” scientific discovery that unlocked...
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Priceless looted artifacts and tablets from Mesopotamia are slowly finding their way back home
When we examine the ancient texts of Mesopotamia and Sumer, we are talking about the location of modern-day southern Iraq. The tablets and artifacts found...
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A story of time dilation and an eagle that resurrects the dead that didn’t make the cut in most Bibles
Ancient texts and stories weave tales of time travel, thousands of years before science fiction movies would popularize the concept in the mainstream. They also...
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Are scientists catching on to ancient knowledge of how to change DNA?
One of the main tenets of the ancient astronaut theory is that ancient beings may have manipulated the DNA of humans and other lifeforms....
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Meet Australopithecus anamensis, one of humankind’s oldest ancestors
When “Lucy” the now-famous Australopithecine was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 by paleoanthropologists, researcher’s minds were full of questions, but the biggest question of all...
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Will the Natural History Museum ever release DNA test results for Queen Puabi?
Just four months before he died on October 9, 2010, ancient astronaut theorist Zecharia Sitchin, 90, was staking his life’s work on a DNA test....
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Alien-like elongated skulls discovered in Croatia similar to finds across the globe
Archaeologists were recently exploring in Croatia when the happened upon something that immediately caught their eye and has subsequently set off debate about what they...
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What caused the collapse of the ancient Peruvian pyramid cities?
At one time, they were majestic and massive, dotted across Peru: Great pyramids that rivaled those found in ancient Egypt. Cities were built around them...
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Study reveals complex genetic history of Amazonian peoples in South America
Geneticists are working to understand the complex genetic history of Amazonian peoples in South America, and their effort is already revealing some interesting information. Led...
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Long considered myth, the Amazons existed and were fearsome fighters
For centuries, the Amazons– a fearsome tribe of warrior women — were dismissed as little more than myth and legend. Now, however, new investigations and...
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Neuroimaging and ancient engravings are giving scientists insight into how prehistoric humans thought
Using advanced neuroimaging techniques to monitor the effect of prehistoric engravings on the brains of modern humans, researchers in France are gaining new insights into...
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Massive ancient tree reveals clues about polar shift that may have ended the Neanderthals
Recently, researchers have discovered that UV radiation caused by a polar shift may have taken out the Neanderthals. Scientists aren’t sure when the next big...
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Who built the mysterious stone circles of ‘African Stonehenge’ in Senegal and Gambia?
They are the largest group of megalithic complexes found in any region of the world, surpassing even their better know European cousin, Stonehenge, and yet...
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4 Biblical sites destroyed and looted by ISIS
In recent years, when ISIS destroyed and looted various sites in their stronghold of Syria and Iraq; important to almost every religion and culture...
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5 Biblical sites destroyed by looting in recent years
The cradle of civilization, known as Mesopotamia, the area between the Tigran and Euphrates rivers, what is now Syria and Iraq, is named as such...
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Paleoanthropologist discovers set of geometric signs used around the world 40,000 years ago
In 2007, paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher Genevieve von Petzinger decided to set out to study geometric signs found in caves and other sites,...
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Neolithic people made fake islands more than 5,000 years ago – But why?
Approximately 5,600 years ago in Scotland, Neolithic man constructed fake islands out of boulders, clay, and wood, according to a new study. These islands, known...
