An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers

Experimental Archaeology: Wise Jar - An Ancient Iranian Invention for Liquid Separation From 5thCentury A.H.(9th A.D.)

After advent of Islam especially through and after the reign of Abbasid caliphs; interest of scientists and engineers wasdrawn towards the” mechanical or ingenious devices”. The wise jar was originally designed by Ahmad ibnMüsä, thefamous Iranian scientist who lived in the 5th century A.H.(9th A.D). It consists of a jar with a mechanically intelligentmechanism inside, which is capable of separa...

Ancestry-constrained Phylogenetic Analysis Supports the Indo-european Steppe Hypothesis

Discussion of Indo-European origins and dispersal focuses on two hypotheses. Qualitative evidence from reconstructed vocabulary and correlations with archaeological data suggest that IndoEuropean languages originated in the Pontic-Caspian steppe and spread together with cultural innovations associated with pastoralism, beginning c. 6500–5500 bp. An alternative hypothesis, according to which Ind...

Ancient animal ancestry for nuclear myosin.

The identification of nuclear myosin I (NMI) has raised the possibility that myosin might have had an early functional role in the eukaryotic nucleus. To investigate this possibility, we examined the molecular evolution of the vertebrate myosin-I proteins. We found that myosin I has undergone at least five duplication events in the common ancestor of the vertebrates (vertebrate-specific duplica...

Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus: An ancient Iranian Immunologist King

Ancient Ancestry of KFDV and AHFV Revealed by Complete Genome Analyses of Viruses Isolated from Ticks and Mammalian Hosts

BACKGROUND Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus (AHFV) and Kyasanur forest disease virus (KFDV) cause significant human disease and mortality in Saudi Arabia and India, respectively. Despite their distinct geographic ranges, AHFV and KFDV share a remarkably high sequence identity. Given its emergence decades after KFDV, AHFV has since been considered a variant of KFDV and thought to have arisen fro...