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AncientPages.com - Archaeological discoveries keep reminding us of Peru’s remarkable ancient history. Many places in Peru are still shrouded in mystery and we can look forward to interesting archaeological

AncientPages.com - There was no reason to think the mummified remains were anything but a bird. It was listed in Maidstone Museum’s inventory as EA 493 Mummified Hawk, Ptolemaic Period and

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have identified three new genes that may explain why humans got such big brains. The evolution of larger brains in the last

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Starting about 7,000 years ago, something weird seems to have happened to men: Over the next two millennia, recent studies suggest, their genetic

AncientPages.com - An intact mummy in especially good condition has been unearthed by a team of researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles's centre for archaeological research (CReA-Patrimoine), excavating an

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near the Temple Mount, Jerusalem, have discovered three extremely rare and tiny Biblical coins. The silver coins dating from the 4th century B.C. are only

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we started to discus encounters with the unusual strange, white men with glowing eyes. We read about

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com  - Throughout history, the ancient Egyptians believed in life after death and that Osiris, the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead,

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As we continue to admire many marvelous ancient monuments across the world, we often ask ourselves - how did our ancestors build these

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Was the ancient Maya civilization much more advanced than previously thought? More than 1,000 years before Europeans landed on the shores of the Americas,

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists, geographers, historians and volunteers have significantly intensified their search for the 16th century royal dockyards in the vicinity of Clackmannanshire Bridge, a road bridge over the

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series, we discussed ancient accounts focusing on the identity of these mysterious people. We explained why they claimed they

AncientPages.com - New details from the successful search for the three-century old San José ship, called the “holy grail of shipwrecks,” have been released by WHOI (the Woods Hole

AncientPages.com - Every ancient culture had some form of afterlife beliefs and these were reflected in their burial customs. As previously mentioned on Ancient Pages, Sumerians for example, respected

AncientPages.com - Cornwall Live  reports that 4,000-year-old burnt human remains have been found on a farm in Cornwall in what is believed to be evidence of an unknown ritual