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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An archaeology team excavating in Saqqara, Egypt has announced the discovery of five magnificent, well-preserved engraved tombs belonging to high-ranking individuals. The Saqqara
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team with the participation of the University of Bern provides new insights into how the inhabitants of the "oldest city in the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating in south-central Connecticut, USA, archaeologists uncovered rare artifacts and a PaleoIndina camp offering vital clues that may shed new light on
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists are baffled because they cannot explain how this bow ended up underwater in Alaska. Where did it come from? Who used it?
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New details about tuberculosis’ evolutionary history in ancient South America point to a complex web of disease transmission in the pre-colonial period, researchers
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study shows preserving the memory of our ancestors has always been important to prehistoric humans. A first-of-its-kind study at Tel Aviv
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient history of human evolution just got a bit more complicated, or perhaps the answers are there but scientists must still put
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An abandoned mausoleum and silver extraction taking place on an industrial scale at a Roman site in rural Kent have left archaeologists with
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A surprising discovery of an ancient sarcophagus and several tombs at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France has been described as a great
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A person living in ancient Chaco Canyon with six fingers or six toes was considered special among the Pueblo people. Having an extra
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Dedicated to the goddess Hathor the Dendera Temple is one of the most beautiful temples in Egypt. Famous for its magnificent astronomical ceiling and huge
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists found evidence of ancient hybrid camels during the restoration of the so-called Temple of Allat at Hatra (second century AD). The temple
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating in the North West of England archaeologists were lucky to unearth a dazzling time capsule of over 5,000 artifacts, dated from
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Granada have discovered several menhir-sculptures on the outer wall of the Los Millares that about 5,000 years ago,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When the first humans reached The Great Plain, USA, remains unknown. There are several theories attempting to answer this historical question, but many
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Sometimes we encounter modern mysteries that may be solved if we explore the past. Today's story could be such a case. Something truly
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have identified a new species of softshell turtle that lived in North Dakota 66.5 million years ago at the end of the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hundreds of ancient finds, including rare bone and ivory artifacts from the biblical period, were seized during an operation by the Antiquities Authority’s
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered surprising evidence modern humans successively inhabited the Mandrin Cave in France within an interval of barely a year. Studies of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is still much to learn about what kind of beings walked the Earth 12,000 years ago. Scientists have studied puzzling depictions of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is much evidence the Incas were skilled in regard to water engineering. One of their greatest accomplishments is the Incamisana water temple
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia has long been regarded as the cradle of human civilization, and ruins of this important civilization are still being unearthed. Sumerians were
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After many years of hard, dedicated work, scientists have finally deciphered the longest Zapotec text of its kind known to exist in the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This underground tunnel, known as Qanat Firaun ('Canal Of The Pharaohs') or simply 'Pharaoh's Watercourse,' is an extraordinary example of the remarkable ingenuity
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - At present, more than 80% of the ocean remains unexplored. In recent years, underwater archaeologists have discovered magnificent, ancient ruins and startling prehistoric
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Anyone who is interested in underwater exploration will be thrilled to see the images of Shackleton's lost ship Endurance that has been discovered
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Something very strange and unexplained happened with European DNA about 5,000 years ago. For reasons totally unknown, the genetic markers of this first
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Location, location, location—it's the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it's been widely assumed that being close to resources drives
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Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - Examining the spines of Neanderthals, an extinct human relative, may explain back-related ailments experienced by humans today, a team of anthropologists has concluded in
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