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Using satellite technology, USM archaeological team detected the wrecks of ancient ships embedded in the mud of an ancient river which once flowed through the oldest civilisation in
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Siberian scientists make discovery of 2,500 year old Saka settlement in up to 23 metres of water in Kyrgyzstan. The new find at the lake is separate from
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On Sep 4, 626 – Li Shimin, a founding father of the Tang Dynasty, a skilled Chinese politician, a master strategist and even an excellent calligrapher - assumed
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Teams digging in an ancient city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast that was once home to pirates discover a variety of artifacts, including anchors
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An archaeologist has 3D-printed a replica of an iron-age artefact to revive a rich musical culture in ancient Ireland. Billy Ó Foghlú, from ANU College of Asia-Pacific, has
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A University of Otago-led research team has unexpectedly discovered the first evidence that the ancestors of Polynesians did not bypass New Guinea on their way from Southeast Asia
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AncientPages.com - On September 3, 36 BC, the naval Battle of Naulochus was fought between the fleets of Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, off Naulochus, near Messina,
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AncientPages.com - The 'Thirteen Towers of Chankillo' run north to south along a low ridge and form an artificial toothed horizon that spanned - almost exactly - the
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A mysterious, well preserved 2,000-year-old pyramid-shaped staircase constructed of large ashlar stones was recently uncovered by the Antiquities Authority on an ancient street in the City of David,
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What was it like to actually live in ancient Egypt as an ordinary person 3,500 years ago? This is an interesting video presented by BBC and Egyptologist Dr
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Ancient Pages.com - On the morning of 2 September 31 BC, the fleets of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt met the fleet of Octavian leader just
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AncientPages.com - During the latest excavations at the archaeological site of Kerameikos in Athens, archaeologists of the German Archaeological Institute discovered an ancient well probably used for hydromancy
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A wooden statue pulled from a peat bog in Russia more than a hundred years ago is now believed to be twice as
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Two lead coffins containing the remains of French nobility who died centuries ago have been dicovered in the city square of Flers, a Norman town located in the Orne
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A team of Greek and Swiss underwater archaeologists have discovered the remnants of a Bronze Age Greek village, now covered by the Mediterranean Sea and within sight of
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The world’s oldest bible, The Codex Sinaiticus, will be lent by the British Library to the British Museum for an exhibition covering 1,200 years of Christian, Islamic and
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Human Beginnings
AncientPages.com - Research into 430,000-year-old fossils collected in northern Spain found that the evolution of the human body’s size and shape has gone through four main stages, according
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The research, led by Dr Matteo Borrini, forensic anthropologist and principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), applied forensic techniques on the remains to reconstruct the features
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Within the framework of the South Assassif Conservation Project on Luxor's west bank, an Egyptian-American team stumbled upon a 26th dynasty tomb that belongs to the vizier of
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Human Beginnings
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from The Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) found about 10,000 Neanderthal artifacts and a sleeping area at Abric
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A floor mosaic from the 4th century AD has been discovered by archaeologists in the downtown of the Bulgarian capital Sofia during excavations of the ruins of the
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Archaeologists have discovered headless remains in several large burial mounds in Semeytau, East Kazakhstan Oblast. The remains belong to ancient Huns and Sarmatians, Tengrinews reports citing Liter. The
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The 2015 archaeological expedition at the Prastio-Mesorotsos site has been completed, revealing it was seasonally occupied from Prehistoric to Historic periods and was probably a place for cooking
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Recent discovery of a marble slab with an important inscription about the Odrysian Kingdom will shed light on the past of the most powerful of the ancient Thracian
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During the first season of a three-year project at the site of Porta Nola, Pompeii, archaeologists report the first results. The study of the necropolis permits the study
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Mourning rings honouring post-medieval dead, emblazoned with skulls and crosses, have been declared archaeological treasure in Wales. Post-medieval mourning is revealed in skulls and inscriptions on three rings
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - It is believed that the ruins of ancient cities lie beneath the sands of the Kalahari Desert and they must be very old. This
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AncientPages.com - Aslantepe is one of the most excavated ancient sites in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Ancient throne made of adobe has been found during this year's excavations at
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Scientists have uncovered the bones of four key members of Virginia’s Jamestown colony. Jamestown was settled near the Chesapeake Bay in 1607. Named for England’s King James I,
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