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The best AO articles from the same week last year .... View this email [in your browser]( [logo-en] [Sign up]( | [Website]( | [Contact](mailto:info@ancient-origins.net?subject=A%20year%20ago%3A%20What%20was%20trendy%20on%20Ancient%20Origins) [Somalia: The Ancient Lost Kingdom of Punt is Finally Found?]( [image?cs_ema...]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Secrets of Ancient Scroll of En-Gedi are Digitally Unraveled [Secrets of Ancient Scroll of En-Gedi are Digitally Unraveled]( University of Kentucky Professor Brent Seales and his team have further unlocked writings in the ancient En-Gedi scroll -- the first severely damaged, ink-based scroll to be unrolled and identified noninvasively. Through virtual unwrapping, they have revealed it to be the earliest copy of a Pentateuchal book -- Leviticus -- ever found in a Holy Ark. Seales and his team have discovered and restored text on five complete wraps of the animal skin scroll, an object that likely will never be physically opened for inspection. In a study published Sept. 21 in Science Advances, Seales and co-authors describe the process and present their findings, which include a master image of the virtually unrolled scroll containing 35 lines of text... [Read More...]( Evidence of Unknown Extinct Human Relative Found in DNA Study of Melanesians [Evidence of Unknown Extinct Human Relative Found in DNA Study of Melanesians]( Traces of long-lost human cousins may be hiding in modern people’s DNA, a new computer analysis suggests. People from Melanesia, a region in the South Pacific encompassing Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands, may carry genetic evidence of a previously unknown extinct hominid species , Ryan Bohlender reported October 20 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. That species is probably not Neanderthal or Denisovan, but a different, related hominid group, said Bohlender, a statistical geneticist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. “We’re missing a population or we’re... [Read More...]( [Ancient Origins Premium]( Devil’s Footprints: Who Descended the Side of an Erupting Volcano, Leaving an Ancient Trail Behind? [Devil’s Footprints: Who Descended the Side of an Erupting Volcano, Leaving an Ancient Trail Behind?]( Descending the side of the Roccamonfina Volcano in northern Italy, sets of humanoid footprints had long been considered the imprint of the Devil, for the footprints were most certainly made when the slope of the volcano was molten. And who but the Devil could walk on flowing lava without burning his feet? Since the ancient footprints’ discovery in the late 18 th century, the local people assumed that the Ciampate del Diavolo (Devil’s Footprints) were evidence of the demon coming out of hell through the crater of the volcano and joining mankind on Earth. This theory held for over two centuries until 2002, when two amateur archaeologists brought the trail to... [Read More...]( The Westcar Papyrus and the Miracle Stories of the Old Kingdom [The Westcar Papyrus and the Miracle Stories of the Old Kingdom]( The Westcar Papyrus has afforded us the earliest series of wonder tales known to exist in the world; but it has also yielded the hint of a sudden revolution in Egyptian history. So writes James Baikie in a 1913 article for the National Geographic Magazine at a time when public interest in Ancient Egypt was surging (nine years later, Howard Carter would discover King Tut’s tomb). While a great deal more has been revealed about Ancient Egypt and about the rest of the world in the 100+ years since the article was published, Baikie’s words still speak to the marvel this artifact evokes. Believed to have been written during the Hyksos period of Ancient Egypt- a chaotic time between the end of the Middle Kingdom and the start of the New Kingdom – the document is at least 3,500 years old... [Read More...]( You Might Like [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [Click here for accessibility]( You have received this email because you have subscribed to [Ancient-Origins.net](. Copyright © 2017 [Stella Novus Limited]( - [Ancient Origins]( Stella Novus Limited - Ancient Origins. 61 Saint Assam's Park, Raheny, Dublin 5, D05 W3C8, Ireland. Stella Novus Limited | 61 Saint Assam's Park | Raheny | Dublin 5 | D05 W3C8 | Ireland | +353 876 087 916 [Unsubscribe]( | [Report spam]( Sent with [ActiveTrail](?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=List&utm_campaign=NormalEnglish) software