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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While studying ancient paintings within Buddhist temples in northwestern China’s Mogao Caves, researchers detected ‘an ancient mistake’ in the artwork. The Mogao Grottoes, near
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have made a stunning reconstruction of the faces of the Siberian Tutankhamun and his Queen who died 2,600 years ago. Skeletons of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - By modern definition, a tyrant is a cruel and oppressive ruler hated by most people. Peisistratos was a tyrant, but this doesn’t mean
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The medieval treasures including coins and jewelry that could possibly belong to a Ruthenian princess and sister-in-law of 12-century Polish king Bolesław the Wrymouth
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - Ancient Pages.com - Archaeologists have found an ancient stone vessel that reveals the location of a long-lost tomb of a Chinese Emperor in the Eastern
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Homo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300 thousand years ago, where their fossils are found with the earliest cultural and technological expressions of our
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A six-foot-tall statue of a female figure who may represent an elite woman rather than a goddess, or some mixture of the two,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Yoruba say that the planet Earth was nothing but an enormous expanse of water and marshes in the beginning. Yoruba people have
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - All around the world, there are magnificent ancient structures that show our ancestors have always been interested in studying the skies. Our interest
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A stone bearing a Greek inscription dated to the end of the Byzantine period (the late sixth–early seventh centuries CE) was recently discovered
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Tartu in Estonia have discovered a Medieval city dating back to the Great Northern War. Tartu, the oldest city of Estonia
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near the city of Capua, Italy have unearthed two ancient tombs. One of the discovered sarcophagi still remains sealed. The find
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of Turkish scientists and archaeologists discovered the remains of A 2,500-year-old Aphrodite Temple in the Urla-Cesme peninsula in Turkey's west. A
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - These people are a medical mystery. They have been encountered worldwide and examined by numerous specialists, but no-one has been able to explain
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 12,000 years ago, people developed a sophisticated technique for making a play dough-like material from mammoth ivory. This prehistoric technique enabled
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Four previously unknown and interconnected cisterns have been unearthed during archaeological excavations carried out at the ancient city of Metropolis, an important city
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many treasure hunters spend years searching for something valuable, but sometimes the most precious ancient objects can be discovered by those who don’t
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stealing ancient artifacts has become a common crime these days and authorities are doing all they can to retrieve antiques that are often
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers examined the prehistoric, 350,000-year-old stone tool that was used to grind food and other materials, and to make the hard life of
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A large number of artifacts dated back to the Bronze Age were found hidden in a truck with Romanian license plates, driven by a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Underwater excavation suggests a massive paleo-tsunami struck near the ancient settlement of Tel Dor between 9,910 to 9,290 years ago. Tel Dor was
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting stories of people who experienced something unexplained, but few incidents are, as out of the ordinary as the accounts
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The two-meter-long Roman mosaic dating back to the city’s Roman occupation between 60 BC. and AD 300 was uncovered under a municipality building
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A total of 49 works of ancient art that had been looted and smuggled out of Iran some four decades ago have recently
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers led by Harvard Medical School's David Reich analyzed the genomes of 263 individuals in the largest study of ancient
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Excavations in Pompeii have never ended and for the first time ever archaeologists can report they have discovered an entire thermopolium. Thermopolium, the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient tomb site on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has been excavated by Chinese archaeologists. Wooden figurines discovered at the tomb site may provide
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Was there once an advanced Polar civilization that suddenly vanished without a trace millions of years ago? Can some perplexing anomalies clearly contradicting
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Remote sensing technology has revealed more about one of the Roman Empire's most infamous conflicts. The discovery of dozens of new Roman Army
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