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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have located a unique Viking Age shipyard site at Birka on Björkö in Lake Mälaren. The discovery challenges previous theories about how
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Jan Barterk - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists had low expectations when excavations started at 35 Spaska Street in Kyiv in 2007. Two earlier archaeological surveys had been carried out
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Democracy is widely understood to have arisen in the Mediterranean world about 2,500 years ago before spreading through cultural contact to other parts
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 1347, the plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An artificial intelligence tool has spotted changes in flints from a 1-million-year-old ancient human site called Evron Quarry in Israel. A closer examination
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have just published a study of what may prove to be China's most ancient human fossil. Scientists at the Centro Nacional de
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On April 23, people in Ireland celebrate Brian Boru, one of their greatest heroes, who became famous for driving the Vikings out. Brian
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The troll is a fascinating mythological creature, well-known in Scandinavian countries. They were 'nature beings' because encounters with them usually took place in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Chickens are the world’s most numerous domestic animal. In order to understand when, where, and how they first became associated with human societies,
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Zteve T Evans - AncientPages.com - Nova Anglia, or New England, was alleged to have been a community of exiled Anglo-Saxon nobles and warriors who intended it to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A tomb of an upper-class female from the late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) has been excavated at the Taosibei cemetery site
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the greatest civilizations of Greek prehistory was the Mycenaean civilization, famous for its majestic architecture and monuments with a grand and impressive
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists at the University of Southampton have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While investigating the Three Bridge Mill located near the village of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, UK scientists discovered an early Roman rare wooden carved figure.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The spread of the grain from East Asia to Central Europe has been reconstructed by researchers at Kiel University. People were already living
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Countless ships have gone under since man took to the water. Many shipwrecks have never been found and their precise location has since been lost
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - An Egyptian-American team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new kind of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur, or theropod, from a celebrated
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Wallacean islands have always been separated from Asia and Oceania by deep-sea waters. Yet, these tropical islands were a corridor for modern
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient toilets and trash pits are like heaven to archaeologists. They might not have the glamor of a gleaming medieval jewel or intricate
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found that a tool, dubbed the "stone Swiss Army knife" of prehistory, was made to look the same in enormous numbers
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pi-Ramesse (Piramesse) is an example of an ancient city of great importance, which archaeologists surprisingly identified in two locations. It took a long
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Roman Empire relied on a network of cities that played a pivotal role in the administration, social organization, and economy of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Between 18 million and 12 million years ago, the Great Plains supported an unprecedented variety of hooved mammal species that browsed on leafy
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AncientPages.com - Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa. The continent is the cradle of human origins and ingenuity,
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AncientPages.com - At the 44th UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting held online on July 26, 2021, it was decided to record Arslantepe Mound, where the oldest city-state of
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AncientPages.com - Why did people think cannibalism was good for their health? The answer offers a glimpse into the zaniest crannies of European history, at a time when
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A burial monument from the late Hellenistic period, which is a first for Istanbul, has been unearthed during the excavations in the Haydarpasa
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Conny Waters - AncientPAges.com - Archaeologists excavating in Egypt are used to finding ancient mummies, but this discovery is different. An odd, half-mummy unearthed in the necropolis in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists admit it's a race against time if we want to save the precious and submerged Stone Age cave art few have ever
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