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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered 3,000-year-old wood structures in a deep and long tunnel used by the ancient Hittite civilization. One of the most fascinating
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - A team of paleontologists from the University of Canterbury has discovered a remarkably intact fossil of one of the earliest ancestors of
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - According to a new genetic study, something strange happened to our ancestors about 900,000 years ago. Suddenly, the ancestral population of humans was
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ancient past, a team of researchers led by Barbara Huber of the
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Curly hair does more than simply look good. It may explain how early humans stayed cool while conserving water, according to researchers who
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have re-examined Neanderthals' perplexing Flower Burial at Shanidar Cave and made a fascinating discovery. The story started when researchers unearthed the well-preserved
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – When you think of dinosaurs, you might automatically imagine iconic dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. But at the same time when
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are trying to solve an ancient Jerusalem mystery. What was the function of the Channel Installation discovered in the City of David
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - The ancient Romans venerated wine. It was accessible to the masses, a fundamental staple of mainstream life and an indispensable part of the Roman economy and
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Natural selection is usually understood in the context of change. When organisms deviate from the norm, they may gain advantages that let their
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have attempted for about 150 years to decipher the secret of how the ancient city's huge water system brought water to Jerusalem
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An ancient Atlantean sculpture with arms raised has been discovered during works preparing a road that will lead to a new section of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The diversity of family systems in prehistoric societies has always fascinated scientists. A groundbreaking study by Mainz anthropologists and an international team of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The magnificent Harput Castle, also known as the Milk Castle, was built by the Urartu Kingdom in the 8th century B.C. The lost
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco.
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Visitors to Richborough Roman fort near Sandwich in east Kent will now find a major new addition to the site: a reconstructed Roman fort gateway in timber, flanked
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a "polishing boulder" in the Valley of the Stones near Dorchester, UK. The discovery was made in the designated Area
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study reports the discovery of hundreds of mummified bees inside their cocoons. These cocoons, produced almost 3,000 years ago, were discovered
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A place must not be of great size to have a long and rich history. Munkholmen is certainly proof of that. Munkholmen Isle,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When scientists discovered a massive, underground anomaly at Nava Fort in County Armagh in Northern Ireland, they suspected they may have encountered something
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists continue excavating the remains of the St. Polyeuktos Church, considered one of the most important structures of the Eastern Roman Empire. This
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists recently carried out an excavation at Vinjeøra in southern Trøndelag County, they made a surprising discovery that they had only dreamed
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It does not often happen that archaeologists can discover massive ancient structures and huge, intact, vaulted passageways you can just walk through. Once
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time, a group of researchers have successfully extracted ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. Currently housed at the National
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During the excavations at Inkaya Cave in the Turkish western province of Çanakkale, archaeologists discovered traces of human life dating back 86,000 years.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Researchers have shed new light on York’s medieval Jewish population, unearthing new documents and evidence which points to a thriving community where the chief Jewish
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Silla was one of the three kingdoms of Korea and the most successful one. In the 7th century, Silla conquered the other kingdoms:
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists knew the ancient underground city they examined was huge, but now it's obvious it's twice as large as previously thought! What secrets
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