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Helmet Of Meskalamdug – Sumerian King Of The First Dynasty Of Ur

AncientPages.com | April 14, 2016

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sir Leonard Woolley found the gold helmet of King Meskalamdug (Mes-Kalam-Dug ) (1880 – 1960), a British archaeologist best known for excavating Ur

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6,000-Year-Old Village Unearthed In Kurdestan

AncientPages.com | April 12, 2016

AncientPages.com - Relics of an ancient six-thousand-year old village in the Sarvabad county in Kurdestan Province have been unearthed by Iranian archaeologists. The ancient village was unearthed in the Sarcham

Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave in southeastern France

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Prehistoric Artwork In Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave 10000 Years Older Than Previously Thought

AncientPages.com | April 12, 2016

AncientPages.com - For many years, scientists have debated the age of some of Europe’s oldest cave art. Many questions have remained without answers, among them, perhaps one probably the

The Mount Stuart edition is unusual because it was bound in three volumes with many blank pages which would have been used for illustrations. Image via Woolf Institute

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A New William Shakespeare First Folio discovered on Isle of Bute, Scotland

AncientPages.com | April 10, 2016

AncientPages.com - A new William Shakespeare First Folio, part of the original collection of 36 plays published in 1623, has been discovered on Isle of Bute, Scotland. Emma Smith, professor

Ancient Roman Obelisk near the towns of Lesicheri

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Archaeologists Will Excavate Unique Ancient Roman Obelisk Near Lesicheri, Bulgaria

AncientPages.com | April 8, 2016

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the Regional Museum of History in the city of Veliko Tarnovo in Northern Bulgaria are hoping to restart the archaeological excavations of a surviving 14-meter

Pottery items, bronze coins, and thread-making devices are among the items found at the tomb site. Photo/Weibo of CCTV via ecns.cn

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2,000-years-old tomb found in S. China

AncientPages.com | April 6, 2016

AncientPages.com - An ancient tomb dating back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220), nearly 2,000 years ago, has been found in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region,

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Silver Jewelry Buried In Leather Purse Discovered In Bulgaria

AncientPages.com | April 5, 2016

AncientPages.com - Silver adornments, which were most probably buried in the fall of 1688 during the so called Chiprovtsi Uprising, the largest rebellion of Bulgarian Catholics against the Ottoman Empire,

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Discovery Of Second Viking Site Point Rosee In North America Could Re-Write Ancient History

AncientPages.com | April 1, 2016

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists may have discovered the second Viking site ever found in North America. It’s a truly significant historical find that offers tantalizing evidence of

A re-construction of what the Bocksten Man looked like in real life. Image credit: Oskar Nilsson

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DNA Can Solve The Mystery Of The Bocksten Man – A 650-Year-Old Murder Case

AncientPages.com | March 29, 2016

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - About 80 years ago, a mysterious bog body of an unknown man was discovered in Sweden. The corpse was labeled the Bocksten Man.

"The analysis provides the first insights into how pottery use changed during massive climate change at the end of the last Ice Age.”

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Surprising New Insights Into Use And Increased Production Of Pottery At The End Of The Last Ice Age

AncientPages.com | March 22, 2016

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at the University of York, leading a large international team, have revealed surprising new insights into why pottery production increased significantly at the end of

Archaeologists have been excavatin at Varnhem Abbey since 2005.

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Unique Ancient Skeletons Discovered At Varnhem Abbey, Sweden

AncientPages.com | March 19, 2016

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near Varnhem Abbey in Sweden have uncovered several unique skeletons. The bones include remains of two children, a six year old and a one year

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Cannabis Protected India’s Famous Ellora Caves From Decay For 1,500 Years

AncientPages.com | March 12, 2016

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Indian archaeologists have discovered that hemp – a mix of hemp with clay and lime plaster – has prevented the famous ancient Ellora

A glass counter decorated with twisted colourful strands found at the site. Credits: The University of Sheffield

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Anglo-Saxon Previously Unknown Monastic Or Trading Center – Discovered

AncientPages.com | March 7, 2016

AncientPages.com - The remains of an Anglo-Saxon island - home to a Middle Saxon settlement - have been uncovered at Little Carlton near Louth, Lincolnshire by archaeologists from the

Thousands of the ancient scrolls fragments from the conservation table to the virtual table. (Photo by Israel Antiquities Authority)

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Israeli-German Researchers Will Digitize Dead Sea Scrolls

AncientPages.com | February 24, 2016

AncientPages.com - Israeli and German team of computer scientists and Dead Sea Scrolls scholars will create a digital copy of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, informed the Israel Antiquities Authority. Dead Sea

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Tarkhan Dress – The World’s Oldest Woven Garment

AncientPages.com | February 24, 2016

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Tarkhan Dress, a V-neck linen shirt, has been confirmed as the world’s oldest woven garment, with radiocarbon testing dating the garment to

"These findings indicate a different time line, with Nordic foragers settling much earlier and starting to take advantage of the lakes and sea to harvest and process fish."

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World’s Earliest Evidence Of Food Fermentation Discovered In Southern Sweden

AncientPages.com | February 11, 2016

AncientPages.com - 9,000-year-old fish bones discovered in southern Sweden provides earliest evidence of fermentation for food preservation anywhere in the world. The discovery of the world’s oldest storage of

A worker discovered a 1,600- to 1800-year-old skull eight meters under the surface.

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Roman-Byzantine Grave Unearthed In Turkey

AncientPages.com | January 28, 2016

AncientPages.com - A Roman-Byzantine grave has been unearthed during the restoration of the historic Casa Garibaldi building on Istanbul’s famous Istiklal Avenue, Turkey The grave was found when a

The goal was to turn the artifacts into digital models so people would be able to “visit” them on the Internet. Photo: AA Photos

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Archaeologists Use Laser Technology To Create Digital Models Of Ancient Artifacts

AncientPages.com | January 28, 2016

AncientPages.com - Artifacts of the ancient city of Kibyra can be seen in the digitally thanks to a laser technology project initiated by Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey. Researchers

It was assumed that Babylonian astronomers used only arithmetical methods. "The new interpretation reveals that Babylonian astronomers also used geometrical methods"

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Babylonian Astronomers Used Geometry To Track Jupiter – 1,400 Years Before Europeans

AncientPages.com | January 28, 2016

AncientPages.com - An analysis of three published and two unpublished cuneiform tablets from the British Museum has revealed that Babylonian astronomers used geometry to calculate the motions of Jupiter

Shang Yang (ca. 390-338 BC) was a Chinese statesman and political philosopher. He was one of the founders of Chinese Legalism.

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‘Reforms of Shang Yang’ – Location Of Ancient Yueyang – Confirmed

AncientPages.com | January 25, 2016

AncientPages.com - For the first time, after the sustained efforts of two generations, Chinese archaeologists have discovered ruins of pottery marked with the characters for "Yueyang" in a location

From the Private Library of John Dee, Cicero, Opera, Omnia Vol 2, with ship drawing. © RCP and John Chase

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January 2016: Lost Library Of John Dee Revealed In A Special Exhibition

AncientPages.com | January 24, 2016

AncientPages.com - A brilliant Renaissance polymath, John Dee was an English mathematician, natural philosopher, and student of the occult. John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was also adviser to

Skeletons were taken apart and the bones buried in different locations (photo: University of Copenhagen)

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Unusual Burial Ceremony: Bones Of The Dead Were Sorted And Categorized Before Burial

AncientPages.com | January 24, 2016

AncientPages.com - The dead were not buried until they had decomposed to skeletal remains. The skeletons were then dismantled and bones of similar types were buried together, say Danish

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Submerged Qin Dynasty ‘Seaside Palace’ Of China’s First Emperor – Found

AncientPages.com | January 22, 2016

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists believe they may have found a submerged seaside palace built more than 2,200 years ago by China’s first emperor, Ying Zheng, mainland media reports. The building,

One of the skeletons excavated by York Archaeological Trust at Driffield Terrace (credit: York Archaeological Trust)

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Secrets Of Ancient Skeletons Found In York – Who Were They And Where Did They Come From?

AncientPages.com | January 20, 2016

AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers used cutting edge genome technology to solve a mystery that has puzzled archaeologists for more than a decade. Did the skeletons belong to gladiators, soldiers

Genetic analyses supports the view that the ancestors of Native Americans arrived in Alaska from Siberia across the land bridge known as Beringia and not from Europe or the Middle East [Credit: Painting by G. Mülzel via Wikipedia

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Ancient Trans-Atlantic Emigration Theory – Not Supported By Genetic Data, Researcher Says

AncientPages.com | January 18, 2016

AncientPages.com - Genetic data does not support ancient trans-Atlantic migration, Kansas University professor says. This hypothesis, which was recently supported by several documentaries and publications, has contributed to the

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17th Century Medical Pop-Up Book Digitized

AncientPages.com | January 16, 2016

AncientPages.com - Columbia librarians have digitized an important anatomical flap book, which is an early attempt to present the three dimensionality of the human body in the two dimensional

Pottery discovered at Abu Erteila, Sudan: lost temple of the Meroitic Empire. Credits: Dr. Richard Lobban

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Abu Erteila’s Lost Temple And The Meroitic Empire: New Discoveries Shed Light On Nubian Civilization

AncientPages.com | January 14, 2016

AncientPages.com - The Meroitic Empire is one of the civilizations of ancient Africa. It was reported by the Greek historian Herodotus as a rival to Greek (Ptolemaic) Egypt. The

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Longvek – Ancient Historical City That Sheds Light On Cambodia’s ‘Dark Age’

AncientPages.com | January 13, 2016

AncientPages.com - Longvek was the capital city in ancient Cambodia, for almost 200 years following the sack of Angkor by the Siamese in 1431. The city's records tell

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Time Capsule – Best Preserved 3,000-Year-Old Dwelling Ever Found In Britain

AncientPages.com | January 12, 2016

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have revealed the best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain, which provides an extraordinary insight into domestic life 3,000 years ago. Dated to

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