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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study from archaeologists at the University of Sydney and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence to answer
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Myths & Legends
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The story of how Pandora, out of curiosity, opened a box and unleashed all kinds of misery on our world is a well-known
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the Old Testament, Ashurbanipal is mentioned in the Book of Ezra, 4:10 - "and the other people whom the great and honorable
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have recreated three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems (torches, grease lamps, and fireplaces) to better understand how Paleolithic cave dwellers might have
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Boker Tachtit archaeological excavation site, in Israel’s central Negev desert, holds clues to one of the most important events in human history: the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -As AncientPages.com reported in 2014, while exploring Lake Huron, one of the five Great Lakes of North America, underwater archaeologists found traces of an
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 1,000 years ago, two Vikings from the same family traveled abroad to fight. One of the Viking warriors went to England where
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History
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Greatly overshadowed by his son, Ramesses II, today hailed as the greatest Pharaoh of all time, Seti I did more for ancient Egypt than
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study co-authored by University of Central Florida researchers shows that pre-Columbian people of a culturally diverse but not well-documented area of
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Kanishka Casket (known as the Kanishka reliquary) is a beautiful Buddhist treasure of gilded copper. The relic dates back to the first
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Sometimes, when you look for something, fate tends to point you in another direction, and you end up finding something else that is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of North Florida archaeology team is fairly confident they have located the lost Indigenous Northeast Florida community of Sarabay, a settlement
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Over the last 200 years, Antarctic narratives have been of those carried out by predominantly European male explorers. However, a research project led
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek -AncientPages.com - An unexpected archaeological discovery sheds new light on the arrival of the first people in North America. Scientists suggest people reached North America more
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the Stone Age, some 8,000 years ago, people danced often and in a psychedelic way, according to a new study. Elk teeth
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Edzná is an ancient place populated in 400 BC and abandoned c. 1500 AD. It is a Maya archaeological site in the north
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New detailed surveys of Viking age ship settings in Hjarnø, Denmark have been completed by archaeologists examining the origins and makeup of the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working in the district of Tübingen in southwest Germany have discovered the region’s earliest gold object to date. The gold wire spiral
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia is widely accepted today as the cradle of civilization, and there is scientific evidence that the ancient Sumerians changed the world in
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Featured Stories
Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Egyptian mythology, Wadjet is a goddess depicted as a cobra and worshiped in Lower Egypt. Wadjet was represented as a cobra-uraeus. The
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Ancient Mysteries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Who was the first explorer to visit the Arctic? That is a question one cannot answer quickly. The lack of historical references dealing
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It's incredible how something so huge could go unnoticed for so long, but one can only be thankful these stunning drawings have finally
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research has questioned theories that a mysterious group of hunter-gatherers from Indonesia interacted with Aboriginal Australians thousands of years ago and provides a basis for future understanding of the people who made tiny, but
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Since its discovery in the 1960s, the Jebel Sahaba cemetery (Nile Valley, Sudan), 13 millennia old, was considered to be one of the
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Egyptian Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Edfu temple is one of the most sacred buildings in Egypt. Known today as Idfu, the ancient city of Edfu located in
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among many ancient weapons, we find their most unusual shapes. One such weapon is the bronze khopesh, a sickle-shaped sword, usually described as
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Very few complete genomes older than 30,000 years have been sequenced which is why this particular study sheds new light on the theory
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We have seen countless examples confirming what many long suspected: ancient people were much more advanced than previously thought. Sumerians, Babylonians and the
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological human remains from the Battles of Himera provide unique opportunities to test early written history. The study contradicts certain claims made in
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