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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While searching for a missing gold ring with a metal detector, a family in Norway found, to their big surprise, something entirely different

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Koine Greek inscription paraphrasing Psalms 86 was discovered by archaeologists at the site of Hyrcania Fortress in the Judean Desert. Adorned with

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed a Roman cosmetics shop in the marketplace in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Turkey. Famous for its well-preserved temple of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th-century slayings, and

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found a 2,300-year-old tomb of a Greek courtesan (hetaira – in Ancient Greek) in a burial cave in Jerusalem. The cremated

AncientPages.com - When researchers used DNA from the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man”, one of Britain’s oldest skeletons, they unveiled what the first inhabitants of what now is Britain actually

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com  - A research team has found the remains of nine different camelids, making Córdoba one of the main sites featuring this animal on the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Previous studies show Neanderthals invented or developed birch tar making technique independently from Homo sapiens. Studying prehistoric production processes of birch bark tar

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 455-million-year-old fossil fish provides a new perspective on how vertebrates evolved to protect their brains, a study has found. In a paper

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com -  Archaeological excavations have revealed large Roman latrines located in Bet Shean, Israel. These latrines are the largest in the country, with 60 wooden

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the Archaeological Zone of Palenque in southern Mexico report they have found an ancient Maya nose ornament made of human

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As many as 35 beautiful 1,400-year-old gold figures were discovered at a site where a Pagan temple was once located outside Lillehammer, Norway.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Found at McGraths Flat, NSW, a fossil site known for its iron-rich rock called "goethite," the new genus of spider is the first ever spider fossil of