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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The rope is one of the oldest human tools, and it played a crucial role in the daily lives of many ancient civilizations.
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Human Beginnings
AncientPages.com - The period between 50,000 to 40,000 years ago saw a crucial biological and cultural transformation for humans: this was the time when local groups of Neanderthals
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lusatian culture dates back to the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (14th-4th century BC), occupying the broadest range of central Europe.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There have always been several ways to prepare meals. Food can be cooked in different pots depending on the meal. Ancient people realized
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Seven impressive Bronze Age swords and a large hoard of Slavic coins have been unearthed by volunteer archaeologists in Germany. The find was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The 9,000-year-old shaman burial in Bad Dürrenberg, Germany, is one of Central Europe's most spectacular discoveries. Discovered in 1934 during construction works, the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Haltern, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, say they have made a "sensational" discovery. On the former Roman campsite, they
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many archaeological secrets exist in forests and mountains. Archaeologists can use imaging drones to capture sites from the air in hard-to-get areas. Sometimes,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed a strange 1,000-year-old grave containing the remains of a woman and man. The most curious aspect of this discovery is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Germany report discovering the largest building of its kind from the Nordic Bronze Age (circa 2200-800 BC). The spectacular find was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An intriguing 1,300-year-old grave belonging to a Merovingian warrior has been discovered during an archaeological survey of an early Medieval cemetery in Ingelheim,
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - About 9,000 years ago, an influential and respected woman was put to rest in a burial in Bad Dürrenberg, Germany. She was buried
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hailed as a sensation find, researchers report they have discovered the official entrance to an Ice Age cave near Engen, Germany, that nobody
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary Medieval sundial has been discovered in the old town of Marburg, Germany. Students at Marburg University had been excavating the site
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a study published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, an international research team led by scientists from the University of Tübingen
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Since autumn 2021, archaeologists of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) have been excavating the area of the former Roman shore fort on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists stumbled upon something extraordinary while excavating a Celtic grave. They discovered a pair of extremely well-preserved scissors and a strangely folded sword
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A research team has solved the mystery of a gold-plated pendant found in a Medieval refuse pit in the Old City section of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair has been discovered in a woman's grave. The excavation team unearthed the chair
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed a puzzling small figurine made in the image of an unknown individual. Researchers speculate people worshiped the small statuette as
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - According to a very controversial theory, our modern calendar is wrong because it misses 297 years. A German calendar skeptic claims he has
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Anyone traveling from the German city of Brandenburg via Berlin to Frankfurt an der Oder at the Polish-German border does so along an
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is still difficult to determine just how advanced the Neanderthals were but our extinct causing were much more sophisticated than previously thought.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Lady of Bietikow lived during the Neolithic period. All that is left of the woman who died more than 5,000 years ago are
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History
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Nazi photo album that was made out of the skin and hair of World War II Nazi death camp victims has been
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 1,000-year-old bronze coin was accidentally found by a little boy (now four-years-old) in Burglengenfeld in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, in the southeastern
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Life for Medieval musicians wasn’t easy, especially if their music wasn’t appreciated. Frankly, in those days, it was wise for untalented musicians to
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient legends of Perchta (also known as Berchta or Berta) are native to Austria, especially Salzburg, and the Alpine regions of Switzerland, and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - There is little information about these ancient ivory manikins that have been a bit of medical mystery until now. Ancient ivory manikins are
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Fredericka 'Marm' Mandelbaum didn't believe in hard, honest work. She wanted big money and fast. Her solution was simple. She opened a school
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a collection of 31 unusual objects that belonged to a Bronze Age warrior who died on the battlefield about 3,3000
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Featured Stories
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - To discover a magnificent Celtic burial like the Hochdorf chieftain's grave is a dream of every archaeologist. Celtic burial mound reconstructed. Credit: Detlef
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have presented a controversial idea suggesting humans evolved in Europe instead of Africa. They base their theory on an 8-million-year-old skull that could
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Russian national hero, Alexander Yaroslavich “Nevski” (1220-1263), was a younger son of Yaroslav, Prince of the Russian province of Vladimir, located about
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem (commonly the Teutonic Order) was first formed in 1192 in Acre.
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