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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - According to legend, Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw from Nottingham, UK. Living in Sherwood Forest, he was famous for robbing the rich
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked by population declines,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Abusir near Saqqara, Egypt, have unearthed a unique tomb belonging to a military officer who commanded battalions made up of
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is a small bronze artifact in the Cincinnati Art Museum's East Asian art collection in Ohio. It is not particularly remarkable at
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The 15th-century French composer and singer Josquin des Prez, or "Josquin," as he is commonly known, achieved the Renaissance equivalent of rock star
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The sword was found in three pieces by two metal detector enthusiasts, independent of each other, in the Jåttå/Gausel area in Stavanger, already
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed an 8,000-year-old Yarmukian 'Mother Goddess' figurine at Sha’ar HaGolan in Israel. The 20-centimeter figurine was discovered broken in two pieces
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A tiny, prehistoric obsidian flake originating from a 45,000-year-old tool was discovered in Armenia and published by Ellery Frahm, an archaeological scientist in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists has unearthed bones of reindeer and woolly mammoth in the limestone cave hidden beneath Pembroke Castle. Wogan Cavern is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - What started three years ago as an ordinary study of some ancient ruins located around the San Pedro hermitage, known variously as El
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils discovered in Scotland represent some of the world's oldest salamanders, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The research
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Altamura Man lived more than 130,000 years ago when ice sheets were expanding from Antarctica and Greenland. His fossilized skeleton, imprisoned in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Fossil tooth analysis by Southern Cross University geochemist Dr. Renaud Joannes-Boyau has played a central role in an international collaboration that has properly
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AncientPages.com - That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a massive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An archaeological dig at a city park has uncovered what could be the earliest house found in Cardiff. The Caerau and Ely Rediscovering
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During routine construction works in the Defne district of southern Turkey's Hatay, workers accidentally discovered the remains of a Roman villa and a mosaic
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The same four factors that explain how people change their beliefs on a variety of issues can account for the recent rise in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient bone needles estimated to be 8,200 years old have been unearthed during excavations conducted in the Yeşilova and Yassıtepe mounds of western Turkey's Izmir.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Professor has announced he has deciphered a 3,500-year-old stone tablet discovered in Jerusalem. According to his study, the stone is inscribed with
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An unrecognized, hidden, and millennia-old subterranean world lies under the surface of our planet. Unknown ancient men once dug an underground world of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are currently exploring a mysterious passageway under the world's longest known cave system. Their mission has been successful so far and the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A perfectly preserved wooden sculpture was recently discovered at the Chan Chan archaeological complex in northern Peru. Wooden sculpture depicting a litter bearer of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed “decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of ‘founder of genetics.’” So concludes
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence the first humans to inhabit the Arctic appeared about 40,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Late Paleolithic.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from Bournemouth University have found the remains of prehistoric people and animal sacrifices in a recently discovered Iron Age settlement in Dorset.
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Zteve T Evans - AncientPages.com - The Chiloé Archipelago, off the coast of Chile, is inhabited by a mixture of Chono, Huilliche, and Cunco people, who brought their
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Located not far from the international airport, the Al Wathba region is home to a beautiful oasis-like wetland reserve that is enjoyed by
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists may have unearthed the oldest European human fossil to date. Found at the world-famous Atapuerca prehistoric archaeological site in northern Spain, scientists have
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