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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The composition of red and black inks in ancient Egyptian papyri from circa 100-200 AD, has been discovered by a team of researchers
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King (1638 – 1715) couldn’t stand bad table manners. The Sun King is today
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Tools made by some of North America’s earliest inhabitants were made only during a 300-year period, according to a new study. The findings
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It may be nothing than just pure coincidence, because pandemics have been around as long as humans, but it’s interesting to note a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study combines newly available analyses and methods from linguistics and genetics to tackle a long-standing topic in archaeological research, confirming the demographic
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, researchers had no evidence that Neanderthals lived in Scandinavia. There is enough evidence that Neanderthals were living in northern Germany
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed the main gate of the historical Harran Palace, in southeastern Turkey’s Şanlıurfa province Harran region. The city of Harran was
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During a pandemic is can be troublesome to conduct archaeological excavations, but it’s not always impossible. Archaeologists in Canada have discovered 35,000 unique
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Egyptian mythology, the god Shu was the god of air and of sunlight and represented a life-giving breath. In this function, he
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many ancient civilizations performed sophisticated cranial surgery. Ancient nomads of Siberia created a major skull surgery center about 2,300–2,500 years ago. “Archaeologists excavating
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Maya in the once-bustling city of Tikal built sophisticated water filters using natural materials they imported from miles away, according to new
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Ellen Lloyd- AncientPages.com - People occasionally experience something science cannot explain. This case is a perfect example of how little we still understand about the nature of reality.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Some may wonder how a giant geoglyph like this one hasn’t been noticed until now, but there is an explanation. Located about 400
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians prepared thoroughly for the afterlife and they were convinced that it was possible to be in the company of the gods,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We may soon get an even better glimpse into the remarkable life of the mighty conqueror, Alexander the Great. Being one of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent research suggests that most languages that have ever existed are no longer spoken. Dozens of these dead languages are also considered to be lost,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have studied settlement movements of Homo sapiens in the Levant 43,000 years ago. Using favorable climatic conditions on their long way from
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Patara - one of the six big cities of the Lycia Union - was one of Lycia's major naval and trading ports, located in the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Atlantean statues Of Tula are four anthropomorphic characters representing ancient warriors who followed a Mesoamerican god-king Quetzalcoatl, a feathered serpent. Quetzalcoatl represented Venus
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Glacier archaeology has become a sparking a brand-new field of research, and with good reason. Over the years, archaeologists have unearthed exceptional artifacts
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As time passes, every society changes one way or the other, but some things, like human behavior, will always remain the same, more
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Whether societies are ruled by ruthless dictators or more well-meaning representatives, they fall apart in time, with different degrees of severity. In the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ellora is world-famous for the largest single rock-cut temple, the Kailasa Temple, named in honor of the sacred mountain-dwelling place of Shiva in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During excavations at the Balatlar building complex in the northern province of Sinop, in northern Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed mosaics similar to those in the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - You don’t have to be an archaeologist to discovered something of great historical value. It seems indigenous residents may have found evidence of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early humans not only knew how to use fire, but they also developed sophisticated technologies for making tools. They may have had a
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Of the six species of early humans, only Homo sapiens have managed to survive climate change on Earth. Now, a new study
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We continue where we ended the story in part 1. When researchers opened the ancient tomb, they quickly realized something was very wrong
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two weeks ago, a team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered a burial well in Minya’s Al-Gharafa archaeological area of Tuna El-Gebel. The limestone coffin,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Named after Alexander the Great this legendary place remains as mysterious as fascinating. Locals call it Zendan-e Eskandar and the original purpose of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Today many modern parents visit shops to buy toys for children. Ancient people also wanted their kids to have something fun to play
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The fragments of various storage jars of different types and sizes had been uncovered over the years, and they played an important role
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Canadian woman has sent back to Italy five artifacts she stole from Pompeii in 2005, during her visit to Pompeii, the ancient
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Iranian archaeologists have found an ancient settlement in the northwestern part of the country, near Beygush Tepe, an archaeological site in Chaldoran county,
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