Humans

You Wouldn’t Believe the Amount of Wealth Within These Royal Families

Though there are several royal families across the world, only a few actually have obnoxious amounts of wealth. People born into such families enjoy privileges only a few can ever attain. Interestingly, the top five richest families in the world do not belong to Europe. Wealthiest 5 royal families in the world 1. Thai royal ...

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A royal treasure.

Japan’s Famed Samurai Class Might Be Descendants of the Neglected Ainu

The Samurai, ancient Japan’s warrior class, have been one of the most celebrated groups of people in modern pop culture. Numerous movies, TV shows, and video games have been made, picturing them in a mythical, mysterious, and noble manner. However, Japan also has the Ainu people, a community that has been discriminated against throughout the ...

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A Japanese Ainu.

Reciting Sanskrit Mantras Might Increase the Size of the Brain

Sanskrit holds a special place in the hearts of linguists. This Indian language, which is thousands of years old, is often considered one of the most perfect languages. Hindus consider Sanskrit to be a language of the gods. Many chant Sanskrit mantras regularly and claim that it has a beneficial effect. And surprisingly, a recent ...

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Ancient DNA Unlocks Secrets of Ice Age Tribes in the Americas

Scientists have sequenced 15 ancient DNA genomes spanning from Alaska to Patagonia and were able to track the movements of the first humans as they spread across the Americas at “astonishing” speed during the last Ice Age, and also how these Ice Age tribes interacted with each other in the following millennia. The results have ...

Troy Oakes

Skulls and other human remains from Lagoa Santa, Brazil.

250,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Teeth Found to Have Lead Exposure

Using evidence found in two Neanderthal teeth from southeastern France, researchers from the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report the earliest evidence of lead exposure in an extinct human-like species from 250,000 years ago. This study is the first to report lead exposure in ...

John Andress

New Viking Discoveries Amaze Archaeologists

The history of Vikings has always been a topic of curiosity for the Western world. Over the past several months, archaeologists have discovered new remnants of Viking culture that provide a better understanding of this fascinating civilization. The longship Archaeologists recently unearthed a very rare Viking longship in Ostfold County of Southeastern Norway. The vessel ...

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A viking longship.

Humans Delayed the Onset of the Sahara Desert by 500 Years

The study by a team of geographers and archaeologists from UCL and King’s College London, published in Nature Communications, suggests that early pastoralists in North Africa combined detailed knowledge of the environment with newly domesticated species to deal with the long-term drying trend. This delayed the onset of the Sahara Desert by 500 years. It is thought ...

Troy Oakes

Study Confirms the Massive Scale of the Lowland Maya Civilization

Tulane University researchers, documenting the discovery of dozens of ancient lowland maya civilization cities in northern Guatemala through the use of jungle-penetrating Lidar (light detection and ranging) technology, have published their results in the prestigious journal Science. The article includes the work of Marcello Canuto, director of the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane, and Francisco ...

Troy Oakes

Meet the Sexist Matriarchal Khasi Tribe of India

India is often criticized for having a patriarchal society by liberals. Interestingly, there is a tribe in India that follows matriarchal practices where women hold a higher status than men. And though some feminists might call it a win for women, the fact of the matter is that many men are terribly discriminated against in ...

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Aboriginals Lived in Western Desert in Australia 50,000 Years Ago

Archaeologists from the University of Western Australia working with Traditional Custodians from the Birriliburru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) have recovered evidence that aboriginals lived in the Australian arid zone 50,000 years ago. This is 10,000 years earlier than previously understood for the interior deserts of Australia, and among some of the earliest known evidence of ...

Troy Oakes

Ancient Aboriginal desert sites.