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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For many people, seaweed holds a reputation as a superfood, heralded for its health benefits and sustainability. Still, it appears our European ancestors
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study describes "a missing law of nature," recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world's workings. In
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Pioneering early farmers who arrived on the Baltic coast 6,000 years ago may have taken up fishing after observing indigenous hunter-gatherer communities, a
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many years ago, a large granite boulder was found in Ireland. It is one of many intriguing ancient stones in the country, except
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have used gold impurities in silver coins and lead pollution in Greenland ice to show that the Romans were early pioneers of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The boat is not ancient, but the discovery is truly incredible. While working on a drainage problem to ease the flooding problem in
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - While documenting fossil tracksites along a stretch of Lake Powell, a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) field crew discovered
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An interesting archaeological discovery has been made in Finland. In Salo Perttel, near the Medieval stone church, scientists have discovered a previously unknown
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - With its low amounts of rain and soaring high temperatures, the Sahara Desert is often regarded as one of Earth's most extreme and
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a spectacular fossil site in Argentina is helping shed new light on life at the end of the Cretaceous, the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Susa (modern-day Shush, Khuzestan Province, Iran) remains one of the world's oldest cities. It has been continuously inhabited since
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa is an eternal masterpiece that has now given up a secret. Using X-rays and infrared spectroscopy to
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rats in the kitchen. Typically that implies issues with cleanliness and safety. But in medieval Japan, having rats in the kitchen could suggest
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have used 3D scanning to investigate inscriptions carved on two groups of Danish runestones, revealing that four stones were likely made in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The fact that Neanderthals were able to make a fire and use it, among other things, for cooking, demonstrates their intelligence. "This confirms
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2022, archaeologists made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair was discovered in a woman's grave in Steinsfeld in Central Franconia
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have revealed that a hoard of coins buried in a small pot, just discovered in Glencoe, Scotland, paints a fascinating picture of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the skin of this dangerous carnivore, a new study has shown for the first time. Excavations at
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Translating ancient texts, filling in missing parts of clay tablets: articles are often popping up about the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence for
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Italy could hardly believe their eyes when they opened a mysterious ancient chamber tomb in the municipality of Giugliano in Campania,
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New imaging and scientific investigations by a team including a King's College London academic has found traces of the original paint used to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have been excavating at the Celtic settlement in Samborowice (Silesia) for a significant number of years, This year, a number of intriguing
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings are often depicted as crude barbarians running around yelling and waving with swords, but there are many reasons we should reconsider whether
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People who carry three gene variants inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study co-led
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is much to be learned from many ancient civilizations. Ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water,
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This beautiful little key was recently recovered by our Kemble field team from a Newland Homes site near Claverham, North Somerset. Medieval key from Court De
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Earlier this year our Kemble fieldwork team undertook a small excavation at the edge of Claverham village, North Somerset, for Newland Homes. The excavation
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