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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The beautiful ancient marble lions are one of the most eye-catching landmarks of the island of Delos. originally the marble guardian lions were
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The oldest known footprints of pre-humans were found on the Mediterranean island of Crete and are at least six million years old, says
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As previously mentioned in many of our previous articles, scientists have on several occasions made puzzling archaeological discoveries that have led them to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Several years ago, while analyzing ice core samples from Antarctica's James Ross Island, scientists Joe McConnell, Ph.D., and Nathan Chellman, Ph.D., from DRI,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New analysis of ancient writings suggests that sailors from the Italian hometown of Christopher Columbus knew of America 150 years before its renowned
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scholars at NC State University has recreated the sights and sounds of St. Paul's Cathedral and its environs in 1620s
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - English mathematician, occultist, astrologer, astronomer John Dee was one of the most learned men of his time. He lived when people were in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Heliopolis, a name that translates to "city of the Sun" or "city of pillars," evokes a sense of wonder about its historical significance
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Tomb of Nestor's Cup, a famous burial in Italy, contains not one deceased individual, but several, according to a new study. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory, known as the Acheulean, appears more than 1.5 million years ago in Africa and 1.2 million
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a recent announcement Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities told the press several magnificent ancient Egyptian artifacts will be sent on an
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Built on a vast plain surrounded by deep valleys and canyons the ancient city of Blandus was once a was a Roman episcopal
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As several previous archaeological excavations have proved there is no doubt the ancient Hittite Empire left a rich historical legacy for future generations.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Why did some ancient Khmer and Mesoamerican cities collapse between 900-1500CE, while their rural surrounds continued to prosper? Intentional adaptation to climate changed
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Ancient Mysteries
Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many religious and mythological stories worldwide speak of visitations of intelligent beings from outer space. In some ancient cultures, these beings were called
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Magnesia, located in the western province of Aydın’s Germencik district, have brought to light the entrance gate of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in India have come across a 2000-year-old Mauryan-era brick platform that may provide scientists with valuable information about the lost Ashoka
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sustainability is a 21st century buzzword, but a new interdisciplinary study shows that some communities have been conducting sustainable practices for at least
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How should we relate to the traditional historiography on ancient Sicily? The prevailing view has been that the indigenous population had neither territory,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have been excavating the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in modern-day Guatemala, since the 1950s—and thanks to those many decades
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Kali (in Sanskrit, "black") is, in Hindu beliefs, the goddess of death, destruction, fear, and horror who destroys ignorance, brings world order, liberates, and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have unearthed several interesting artifacts that were used in religious rituals for goddess Hathor. The ancient tools were discovered
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international group of scientists has studied a genome sequence of a unique individual known as the Segorbe giant and his DNA reveals
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Etruscan civilization, which flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy, has intrigued scholars for millennia. With remarkable metallurgical skills and a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Max Planck
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Already in the Bronze Age, pastoralists covered long distances across the Eurasian steppes - presumably thanks to their consumption of milk. The Yamnaya,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting and well-documented encounters with ancient giants in North America, and today it is time to present one such case.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have studied how ancient people responded to catastrophic natural events and discovered ancient Maya people used volcanic ash to build some of
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