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Could this ancient burial site be the oldest lethal plague outbreak?
Graves of hunter-gatherers in Siberia point to a deadly disease outbreak dating to some 5,500 years ago, a new DNA analysis finds
Jerash Mass Grave mystery: The 6th-century plague that erased an entire city in days
Unusual Medieval Burial Discovered In Dabrówno, Poland, Puzzles Archaeologists
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists examining a medieval cemetery in the Old Town near Dabrówno have discovered an unusual burial: the deceased had an iron knife under h...
Power Line Construction In Germany Just Turned Up The 5,000-Year-Old Skeleton Of A Man Who Was Thrown Into A Kiln In A P...
A member of the Corded Ware culture that flourished in northern Europe during the Late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age, the man was about 25 years old when he died and had sust...
A Deadly Outbreak of Plague, Nearly 5,000 Years Before the Black Death
The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild.
Rare graves reveal a lost world of Bronze Age Europe hidden for 3,000 years
Scientists have uncovered remarkable new details about Bronze Age life in Central Europe by studying rare burials untouched by cremation. The research reveals communities experimen...
Giant Stone Urns Hint at the Death Rites of a Lost People in Laos
Thousands of mysterious containers lie scattered across northern Laos. These “death jars” may have provided a form of communal interment, archaeologists reported.
Rare Sealed Etruscan Tomb Unearthed At The San Giuliano Necropolis
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Another significant archaeological discovery has been made at the San Giuliano necropolis, approximately 70 kilometers northwest of Rome, Italy. L...
Baffling graves could be evidence of a deadly Stone Age plague
Ruairidh Macleod, University of Oxford & Stephen Shennan, UCL/The ConversationContinue ReadingCategory: Archaeology, Science...
27,500-year-old grave earliest example of ritual mourning
Layla Tiseo, Université de Montréal/ The ConversationContinue ReadingCategory: Archaeology, ScienceTags:
Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead
Scrape marks inside a skull and sharpened limb bones in a set of remains found in Scotland may be evidence of unusual Iron Age funerary rituals
Ancient Plague Killed Hunter-Gatherer Families in Siberia 5,500 Years Ago
Learn how DNA from teeth buried near Lake Baikal showed that plague was already deadly before the rise of cities, farming, and efficient flea-borne spread.
This Deadly Disease Was Wiping Out Humans 5,500 Years Ago
A new study suggests plague was already a deadly threat 5,500 years ago, striking small hunter-gatherer communities long before cities and agriculture emerged. For centuries, plagu...
Funeral Cache Discovered in Egypt at Heliopolis
CAIRO, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, an excavation of the mudbrick tomb of “Panehsy” […] The post Funeral Cache Discovered in Egypt at Heliopolis appeared first on Arc...
Ancient Chinese lord buried with bells meant to silence ancestral war rituals
Imagine, for a moment, that you lived in ancient China, with a rival state threatening your people’s very existence. In the quest for any advantage, one strategy might involve perf...
2,500-year-old tomb in Italy found with chariot, helmet and weapons
Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed a 2,500-year-old tomb of a pre-Roman warrior prince. This royal burial was found in Sirolo and belonged to the ancient Piceni civilization. T...
How Did People In Late Bronze Age Central Europe Live During The Urnfield Period, A Time Of Significant Change?
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new interdisciplinary study offers the first detailed biomolecular and archaeological insights into the lives of people in Central Europe during...
Skeletal Clues of a 9,000-Year-Old Woman Shaman Show How She Induced Ecstatic Behavior During Spiritual Rituals
Meet the Bad Dürrenberg shaman and how lavish grave goods help us paint a picture of shamanistic practices of the Middle Stone Age.
Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?
Archaeologists found apparent scrape marks inside a skull; long bones may have been sharpened into tools.
Ancient DNA reveals plague was already killing humans 5,500 years ago
Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually linked to historic outbreaks. By analyzing ancient DNA from...
Ancient DNA from a ruined tomb near Jerusalem reveals a hidden human story from 3,000 years ago
Ancient DNA provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak
Discovery in Siberia suggests bacterium from raw marmots devastated hunter-gatherer tribes about 5,500 years agoThe earliest evidence for an outbreak of plague has been uncovered a...
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