Study of Ancient Skulls Sheds Light on Human Interbreeding With Neandertals Research has established that there are traces of Neandertal DNA in the genome of modern humans. Now an exploratory study that ᴀssessed the facial structure of prehistoric skulls is offering new insights and supports the hypothesis that much of this interbreeding took place in …

Strange ‘alien’ holes were discovered on the ocean floor Explorers have discovered a series of mysterious, “perfectly aligned” holes punched into the seafloor roughly 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometres) beneath the ocean surface, and they have no idea who or what made them. The strange holes were spotted by the crew of the National Oceanic and …

Activists urge archaeologists not to ᴀssume the gender of ancient human remains The Black Trowel Collective, a group of American archaeologists, claimed there are suggestions that many historical cultures had more than two genders and so archaeologists should be “wary of projecting our modern Sєx and gender idenтιтy categories onto past individuals”. The group claimed …

Early Humans Placed the Hearth at the Optimal Location in Their Cave 170,000 Years Ago Spatial planning in caves 170,000 years ago. Findings indicate that early humans knew a great deal about spatial planning: they controlled fire and used it for various needs and placed their hearth at the optimal location in the cave – …

The Jericho Skull – Face of 9,500-Year-Old Man Revealed for the First Time Archaeologists at the British Museum have accurately reconstructed the face of a man who lived 9,500 years ago in the ancient city of Jericho, allowing us to actually see what he looked like for the first time. The reconstruction was done using …

Ancient DNA in East Asia Linked to Native Americans For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published July 14 in the journal Current Biology, suggests that the mysterious hominin belonged to an extinct maternal branch of modern humans that might …

The Dispilio Wood Tablet – One Of The Oldest Written Texts In History According to conventional archaeology, writing wasn’t invented until 3000 to 4000 BC in Sumeria.  However, an artefact was found over a decade ago which contradicts this belief – and perhaps this is the reason why few people know about the discovery. The Dispilio …

Human Remains Recovered at Waterloo Battlefield New excavations on the battlefield of Waterloo have unearthed a human skeleton, amputated limbs and the remains of at least three horses. The discoveries were made at Mont-Saint-Jean farm, which was the main allied field hospital during the battle in which the Duke of Wellington defeated French Emperor Napoleon …

100,000-Year-Old Astronomical Map Discovered At Visoko I met Semir Osmanagich, three years ago, in Pescara (Italy) during a conference on Ancient Civilizations and we had several intriguing conversations that were the seeds of my study on the enigmatic stone found in the valley of Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In my opinion, Semir is working very …