AncientPages.com Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New archeological research highlights major blind spots in Australia's environmental management policies, placing submerged Indigenous heritage at risk. The study area relative to the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Deep in the dense coastal forests and marshes of the American Southeast lie shell rings and shell mounds left by Indigenous people 3,000
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A continuous rise in the global population has led to fears that conflicts and war will become more frequent as resources dwindle. But
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Researchers undertook a zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of the Neanderthal Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), some 76,000 years old, whose results
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are countless examples of how the modern world regularly underestimates our ancestors' knowledge. Not only were ancient civilizations much more advanced than
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in France have unearthed hundreds of exceptional Bronze Age artifacts that were most likely offerings. The still-well-preserved 3,00-year-old artifacts include jewelry and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Codex Telleriano Remensis, created in the 16th century in Mexico, depicts earthquakes in pictograms that are the first written evidence of earthquakes
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human movements like migrations and expansions played a major role in driving the spread of cultures and genes
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the most intriguing personalities in Irish mythology is Fintan Mac Bochra, the first man in Ireland. His relationship with the granddaughter
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered the skeleton of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago. It is a highly significant archaeological discovery
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists examining the Herculaneum skeletal remains of the victims of Vesuvius that erupted on the morning of August 24, 79 AD, and broke its centuries-long
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most swamps are regarded as places that are beautiful but downright scary, and one should know better than to visit them. The Manchac Swamp in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Israel have made another interesting discovery. This time while excavating in the Ramat Ha-Sharon region, just north of Tel Aviv they
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered an ancient statue of the mythological goddess Hygieia ("Hygiene", the goddess of cleanliness), who was one of the healing god
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Is ancient sacred wisdom of the gods kept in remote monasteries? Thousands of old manuscripts are stored at monasteries among the highest and
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Abbey Library of St. Gall in Switzerland is home to approximately 160,000 volumes of literary and historical manuscripts dating back to the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The theory ancient Carribeans were cannibals has long been debated, but there is no evidence supporting these claims. It was Christopher Columbus (1451
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist has discovered a magnificent, 1,400-year-old 'sword-pyramid' in Breckland, Norfolk, United Kingdom. An artifact like this one usually comes in pairs,
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Myths & Legends
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Birds have always been important in the mythologies of many cultures worldwide. Almost all beliefs of ancient people have myths and legends associated with
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today, only a few ancient ruins remain, but during the time of the Inca, Coricancha must have been a marvelous place to see. Coricancha
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Berkshire, UK have discovered a long-lost Anglo-Saxon monastery that belonged to one of the most powerful women of the Early
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New research shows changes in tides and hurricane activity played a part in upending the Maya civilization centuries ago. Changes to the water table
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There are many ways to investigate the ancient history of a particular region and the migration of people. The field of archaeogenetics has
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered an unusual and well-preserved skeleton of a man in the ancient city of Pompeii. The find was made during excavations of
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - International research by Tel Aviv University, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, and the University of California San Diego uncovered
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 we discussed several ancient legends describing how a massive continent was destroyed by an ancient cataclysm several hundred thousand years
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Ireland have retrieved a curious 1,600-year-old wooden Pagan idol from a bog in Gortnacrannagh, a few kilometers northeast of the prehistoric
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - King's research has helped uncover new evidence showing the portrayal of the execution of captives in the arena by throwing them to lions.
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