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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Underwater archaeologists diving off the coast of Caesarea, Israel have recovered a magnificent treasure from two ancient shipwrecks. The treasure consists of hundreds

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Analysis of ancient DNA from one of the best-preserved Neolithic tombs in Britain has revealed that most of the people buried there were from

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What routes did Homo sapiens take on his way from Africa to Europe and Asia in the previous millennia? The climatic conditions changed,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Mobility shaped the human world profoundly long before the modern age. But archaeologists often struggle to create a timeline for the speed and

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New archeological study shows ancient connection between populations 3,000 km apart, and provides first direct link between climate change and ancient human social

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For decades, historians have debated whether an infamously violent Viking torture ritual ever really happened, or if it was a misunderstood or embellished

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first genome-wide ancient human DNA data from Sudan reveals new insights into the ancestry and social organization of people who lived more than

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Despite its prior status as a luxury commodity, silver became widely used for coinage in the Roman world from the 7th century BCE

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hunter-gathers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archeologists from Leiden University in collaboration

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ten thousand years ago, just after the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave. They

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rising as high as 20 feet, ancient stone monoliths in southern Ethiopia are 1,000 years older than scientists previously thought, according to a

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists from the University of Zurich examined a unique leather scale armor from the grave of a horseman in northwest China. The style and

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1, we discussed our ancestors' knowledge of mysterious gateways leading to other worlds. Though this may seem like an implausible scenario,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most people around the world agree that the made-up word 'bouba' sounds round in shape, and the made-up word 'kiki' sounds pointy --

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK. A rare Roman mosaic and surrounding villa complex have been