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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first successfully sequenced human genome from an individual who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - More than 20 years ago, Dr. Heiko Prümers from the German Archaeological Institute and Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt from the University of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent's earliest humans consumed the eggs of a
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Carles Lalueza-Fox - AncientPages.com - November 26, 1922, marks what is arguably the most famous discovery in the history of archaeology. On that day, the British Egyptologist Howard
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Oral hygiene was important to the Maya who had remarkable dental skills. Scientists have discovered that the ancient Maya came with a special
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AncientPages.com - Domestic violence was endemic in the Roman world. Rome was a slave-owning, patriarchal, militarized culture in which violence (potential and actual) signaled power and control. Tragically,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Uncovering the past of historically under-represented communities sometimes means having to do a little digging, through newspapers, archives and even the ground. A
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Human Beginnings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - With the help of the world's most powerful supercomputer and new artificial intelligence techniques, an international team of researchers has theorized how
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered that humans domesticated cattle around 10,000 years ago in the Central Nile region in today's Sudan. The recent study conducted by
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During an archaeological survey of Castilly Henge, near Bodmin scientists uncovered a previously unknown stone circle inside a Cornwall scheduled monument. The remarkable and
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study carried out in the area around the Pego-Oliva Marshland Natural Park, between Valencia and Alicante, reveals how the rise in sea
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Trinity scientists, along with international colleagues, have explored the importance of sea travel in prehistory by examining the genomes of ancient Maltese humans
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique compound bow from the Bronze Age nearly 2 meters tall was reconstructed from authentic materials by SUSU specialists as part of
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Canadian First Nations leader Chief Crowfoot (1830 – 25 April 1890) of the Siksika Nation was famous for his bravery in battle and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations led by Wyoming's state archaeologist and involving University of Wyoming researchers have confirmed that an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One day more than 3,000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a giant sinkhole in China and a huge, ancient unexplored world beyond our feet is extraordinary in many ways. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As early as 9,500 years ago, people in Europe used slash-and-burn methods to make land usable for agriculture. This is shown by environmental
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historian Prof. Tamar Herzig, Vice Dean for Research at Entin Faculty of Humanities, exposed previously unknown evidence of organized gang rape of a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In ancient times people saw the world in a very different way. This collection of maps must be one of the strangest representations of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Denisovans are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. These ancient humans
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Today, the town of Cerveteri is particularly famous for the numerous Etruscan cemeteries located on the surrounding hills. Etruscan necropolis Cerveteri Rome Province,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - From the Middle Bronze Age, Egypt played a crucial role in the appearance of calcite-alabaster artifacts in Israel, and the development of the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wondered what an ancient Egyptian garden looked like? Now is your chance to find out! The world's first ancient Egyptian
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time in modern history, we are now able to see the colorfully detailed inscriptions on the ceilings and walls at
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