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Earth Changes
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Geologists have long known that around 155 million years ago, a 5000 km long piece of continent broke off western Australia and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As many as 25,000 statues of ancient Egyptian deities and Ushabti figurines crafted from faience have been revealed to the public for the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient people immigrated to Cancun Island and were treated just like locals, according to a study. The Late Postclassic (AD 1200-1500) in the
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - The languages in the Indo-European family are spoken by almost half of the world's population. This group includes a huge number of languages, ranging from English
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In ancient Egypt, various deities were portrayed as animals. Thoth, the god of learning and wisdom was represented by a hamadryas baboon. Baboons,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Vindelev gold treasure is of great historical importance. Discovered in a field in Jelling, Denmark, the remarkable treasure has re-written ancient history.
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Earth Changes
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Scientists used satellite data and radio-echo-sounding techniques to map a 32,000 km2 area of land underneath the vast ice sheet. They discovered
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When the Great Heathen Army, also known as the Great Viking Army, crossed the sea in the year 865 A.D., a new chapter
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - How much can the written records of ancient civilizations tell us about the animals they lived alongside? Published in Environmental Archaeology, Our latest research, based on the venomous
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A historical shipwreck has been successfully recovered from the seabed off the coast of Misiliscemi in the Trapani area, Sicily. The 11-meter-long Roman
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DNA
AncientPages.com - For generations, Neanderthals have been a source of fascination for scientists. This species of ancient hominim inhabited the world for around 500,000 years until they suddenly
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Remarkable ancient engravings that have been submerged for a long time are now visible again at a site known as Praia das Lajes
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory pliosaur –
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at La Draga de Banyoles, an Early Neolithic lakeshore site in Spain, have uncovered well-preserved 7,300-year-old wooden cabins. The ancient structures
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist has made an extraordinary discovery that re-writes the history of ancient Britain. In March this year, after receiving permission from
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It's a familiar story to many of us: In prehistoric times, men were hunters and women were gatherers. Women were not physically capable
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It's said that a dog is a man's best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists from the Universities of Granada and Cambridge, as well as the Government of Catalonia, have identified the oldest pieces
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Locals in the city of Atlixco in central Mexico have long told stories of an ancient temple that once stood on the top
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After almost 2,000 years, the first full word from the Herculaneum scroll has been deciphered by a 21-year-old computer science student at the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The two Roman coin hoards were discovered by metal-detectorists David Moss and Tom Taylor in Caerhun Community, Conwy, during the winter of 2018-2019.
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. If evolution
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the karstic caves of Puerto Rico, cave art paints the rock walls. Previous research has assigned ages to this art based on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 2,000 years ago, a Roman man tried to clean a well and lost a sandal. The well-preserved ancient shoe was discovered during
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Contemporary humans carry in their cells a small amount of DNA derived from Neanderthals and Denisovans. “Denny,” a 90,000-year-old fossil individual, recently identified
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, scientists have traced the history of migrations between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. About 40,000 years
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A magnificent Bronze Age treasure has been discovered in Switzerland. The adventure started when Franz Zahn examined a freshly harvested carrot field in
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When you look at the painting, you may not notice it immediately, but once you examine the artwork closer, you can see something
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For thousands of years, beavers had a big influence on the Dutch ecosystem and the people that lived there. This is the conclusion
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