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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As they watch the Olympic Games in Japan, a group of University of Toronto students is learning about the origins and historical significance
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - People in Kerala, India, have a long and impressive metal-casting tradition. Among the many beautiful objects produced in this part of the world
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that "stressed poetry," the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - What makes the Tarascans an intriguing pre-Columbian civilization? The Tarascans, well-known for their outstanding musical and artistic abilities, are, first of all, famous for
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Understanding the environmental conditions under which early humans dispersed out of Africa is important for understanding the factors that affected human evolution. This
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is still difficult to determine just how advanced the Neanderthals were but our extinct causing were much more sophisticated than previously thought.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from the Uppsala University have uncovered the remains of an Iron Age warrior in Sweden. The find made during excavations in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Djoser was possibly the founder of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom in Egypt. The Old Kingdom began with the third dynasty
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists in Denmark say they have struck gold, they do really mean it! One of the biggest gold treasures ever discovered in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the most interesting archaeological sites is Qumran in West Jordan. This is where scientists in 1947 unearthed clay pots filled with
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As discussed in part 1, the scientists who visited the tribe were told about strange and mysterious beings who once came to this
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Core samples taken from a stand of old growth Douglas-fir trees in the South Beach area just south of Newport showed reduced growth
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two hundred fifty-two million years ago, much of life on planet Earth was dying. In an event that marked the end of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Native Americans who occupied the area known as Poverty Point in northern Louisiana more than 3,000 years ago long have been believed
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Medieval manuscript fragments discovered in Bristol that tell part of the story of Merlin the magician, one of the most famous characters from
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When stories about the mysterious Old Leather Man started circulating, many wanted to know more about the unusual man. People reported seeing a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Beer has been a popular beverage for as long as anyone can remember. Ancient people enjoyed beer just as much as many of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.om - The controversial ruler Boris Godunov (1552–1605) has unwillingly become an unpopular character in Russian history. His biography is full of ambiguities and gaps.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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