ancient egypt, ancient wonders, egypt, prehistory

The Lost Name of the Ancient Empire of Egypt

Long before our current historic dating of the dynasties in Egypt, there was already a highly advanced civilization living in the region. According to the late knowledge keeper, Abdel Hakim, the members of this prehistoric civilization are the ones who actually built the pyramids and created the sphinx long before the time and dates officially ...

Nspirement

Woman walking down hallway in ancient Egyptian building.

Have Giants Ever Existed on Earth?

You may have read about creatures that resemble humans but are way too big in stature in fairy tales. Numerous fantasy movies have been made that include such creatures and their worlds. You may also recall poems like The Giant Toy by Adelbert von Chamisso mentioning them. However, have you ever thought about whether or ...

Jack Roberts

Promotional poster for the Quaker Giant and Giantess exhibited by Barnum's American Museum in New York in 1849.

Lucky Finds From Rabbit Hole Re-Write Prehistory of Skokholm Island

Chance finds of prehistoric stone tools and fragments of pottery, picked up from a rabbit hole by the wardens of Skokholm Island, have surprised experts and hint at new chapters in the prehistory of this famous island. Nicknamed “Dream Island,” Skokholm Island lies two miles off the south Pembrokeshire coast and is owned and managed by ...

Troy Oakes

Skokholm Island.

New Ancient Genomic Research Reveals Information About Human History in China

Newly released genomic research from Neolithic East Asia has unveiled a missing piece of human prehistory, according to a study conducted by Prof. FU Qiaomei’s team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The study, published in Science, reveals that population movement played a profound role in ...

Troy Oakes

DNA strands.

Archaeological Mysteries Solved by New PNG Research

New research that “fills in the blanks” on what ancient Papuan New Guineans ate, and how they processed food, has ended decades-long speculation on tool use and food stables in the highlands of PNG several thousand years ago. A recent research report detailing findings from the “Joe’s Garden” site in the Ivane Valley in the ...

Troy Oakes

Professor Glenn Summerhayes.

Earliest Interbreeding Event Between Ancient Human Populations Discovered

For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle, which seems to be the result of interbreeding. His research untangles millions of years of human evolution by analyzing DNA strands from ancient human species known as hominins. Like many evolutionary geneticists, Rogers compares hominin genomes looking for genetic patterns such as ...

Troy Oakes

Interbreeding between early groups.

The Earth Formed Much Faster Than Previously Thought

The precursor of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of approximately 5 million years, shows a new study from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation (StarPlan) at the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen. On an astronomical scale, this is extremely fast, the researchers explain. If you compare the solar system’s ...

Troy Oakes

Two vials of Cl chondrites.

Early Modern Humans Cooked Starchy Food 170,000 Years Ago

The discovery also points to food being shared and the use of wooden digging sticks to extract plants from the ground by early modern humans. Professor Lyn Wadley, a scientist from the Wits Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (Wits ESI), said: “The inhabitants of the Border Cave in the ...

Troy Oakes

Border Cave.

Mystery of How Early Animals Survived the Ice Age Unraveled

How did life survive the most severe ice age? A McGill University-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided a crucial lifeline to eukaryotes during Snowball Earth, when the oceans were cut off from life-giving oxygen, answering a question puzzling scientists for years. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the ...

Troy Oakes

Maxwell Lechte examines rock formations.

The Last Neanderthal Necklace

Eagle talons are regarded as the first elements used to make jewelry by Neanderthals, a practice that spread around Southern Europe from about 120,000 to 40,000 B.C. Now, for the first time, researchers have found evidence of the ornamental use of eagle talons in the Iberian Peninsula. An article published on the cover of the ...

Troy Oakes

A falange of an imperial .eagle