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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Judean Desert is a unique time capsule for archeologists: thanks to the arid conditions that prevail there, its caves preserve ancient artifacts

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This important discovery sheds much light on cacao cultivation, religion, power in the region. For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in recent research. It reveals new radiocarbon dates

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – One of the most interesting events in the history of Scotland is the Jacobite Rebellion. Also known as the Forty-five Rebellion, this was

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists examined the remains of a previously submerged fisher-hunter-gatherer camp on the shores of the Sea of Galilee from around

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - Among many tales that survived from the era of northern Pakistan, which was the sacred Buddhist heartland of Gandhara, there was one dedicated

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the "Gold Mask of Agamemnon", but

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - King Amenhotep III, also known as Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During his reign, Egypt successfully managed to

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Why the mysterious Stone of Brutus was brought to London, UK, remains unknown. Several theories attempt to explain the Stone's enigmatic past, but

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Bronze Age Maikop kurgan is one of the most richly furnished prehistoric burial mounds in the northern Caucasus. Excavations conducted in the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique 4,000-year-old board game made of stone has been unearthed by archaeologists in Oman. Marked with ‘playing fields and cup holes’ the discovery

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As we discussed in part 1, everything the man witnessed that morning indicated the mysterious creatures were no ordinary human beings. Something was

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity's earliest agricultural

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Stories of encounters with mysterious little beings are always fascinating, especially when these reports come from credible witnesses, like the one we will

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of