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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People ask many questions and are curious about inventions and discoveries. Here is one question: When was the odometer invented? An odometer is

AncientPages.com - A brilliant Renaissance polymath, John Dee was an English mathematician, natural philosopher, and student of the occult. John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was also adviser to

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists believe they may have found a submerged seaside palace built more than 2,200 years ago by China’s first emperor, Ying Zheng, mainland media reports. The building,

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to an ancient Egyptian myth, it is hazardous to interfere with the dead. This warning was written down on papyri dated to

AncientPages.com - Seven caves (Buddhist 'viharas') have been discovered in the forests of the sprawling Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivli, on the northern fringes of the city. They are

AncientPages.com -  Genetic data does not support ancient trans-Atlantic migration, Kansas University professor says. This hypothesis, which was recently supported by several documentaries and publications, has contributed to the

AncientPages.com - The Meroitic Empire is one of the civilizations of ancient Africa. It was reported by the Greek historian Herodotus as a rival to Greek (Ptolemaic) Egypt. The

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have revealed the best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain, which provides an extraordinary insight into domestic life 3,000 years ago. Dated to

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Shamash was the Sun god in the mythology of the ancient Near East. He was associated with truth, justice, and healing and was one of the

AncientPages.com - Many fascinating artifacts have already been discovered during Yenikapi excavations, which tell story of a 8,500-year-old city. Among these findings, which are dated to the Neolithic Age,

AncientPages.com - Archaeological evidence shows that despite hygienic innovations introduced by the Romans, intestinal parasites such as whipworm, roundworm and Entamoeba histolytica dysentery did not decrease as expected in

AncientPages.com - Scientists once again try to restore the chronology of the Homeric epics Iliad and Odyssey. They compare the natural phenomena the epic describes with astronomically ascertained ones,

AncientPages.com - An international study based on DNA from Anatolian remains and coordinated from Stockholm shows importance of the role Anatolia played, when farming spread throughout Europe some 8000

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists digging in Newhaven, a historic fishing village in Scotland, discovered poorly preserved human bones dated to the sixteenth or seventeenth century. The team was looking for

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found new evidence that suggests date of origin of Tel Al-Dafna site, located at the Al-Qantara West area in Ismailiya, 11 kilometres west of the