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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Rock-hewn Ptolemaic and Roman tombs with intriguing golden masks, mummies, coffins, and terracotta statues have been unearthed in the historic city of Al Bahnasa
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A vast fortification, which is one of the longest known going back 4,000 years was just discovered by a team of scientists from
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists were baffled, to say the least, when they discovered an ancient Roman necropolis containing 67 dressed skeletons buried in 57 ornate tombs.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have unearthed an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study scientifically corroborates an event described in the Second Book of Kings – the conquest of the Philistine city of Gath
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a peculiar stone disk while investigating an ancient hill fort in Rupinpiccolo, northeastern Italy. The 50 cm in diameter and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany have carried out the first comprehensive analysis of some 20 mummy fragments from collections in the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists are investigating a rather peculiar Medieval cemetery located in a field not far from Fonmon Castle in Wales, UK. The fortified Medieval
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A centuries-old mystery may finally have been solved. Cerne Abbas Giant, the 180ft (55-meter) tall club-wielding man in Dorset, UK, has long been
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In eastern Mongolia, a 405 km long previously unexplored wall system has been largely overlooked in existing academic discourse. Named the “Mongolian Arc,”
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - On 12 September 1901, Denis Peyrony, a local schoolmaster, stepped inside the Font-De-Gaume Cave. He discovered marvelous prehistoric cave paintings that our ancient
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During excavations of a domus north of the house of a Leda and the Swan in Pompeii, archaeologists unearthed 13 ancient terracotta figurines.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near the village of Offord Cluny in Cambridgeshire have discovered the remains of a man who lived between AD 126–228 during
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study from a University of Colorado Boulder researcher conducted with colleagues in Argentina sheds new light on how the introduction of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research conducted by a team of archaeologists and earth scientists has shed light on the ancient landscapes of Sahul, the Pleistocene (Ice
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock management strategies and feeding practices. Above: Image of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When did archery arise in the Americas? And what were the effects of this technology on society? These questions have long been debated
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the forest steppe northwest of the Black Sea—today the territory of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine—mega-sites of the Trypillia societies emerged
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As the world faces the challenges of present-day climate change, scientific inquiry is, among other objectives, exploring how human societies navigate environmental variations at
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For more than 50 years, dental anthropologists have studied variation in the shape of human teeth to study the patterns of migration that
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During previous excavations, archaeologists have found plenty of evidence that Babylonians and Sumerians were skilled astronomers. Sumerian cuneiform tablets confirm that knowledge of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There may still be vanished human species unknown to scientists. A research team has discovered an unusual 300,000-year-old jawbone with an unexpected combination
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working within the Colosseum Archaeological Park’s research project, have unearthed some rooms of a luxurious domus dated to the late Republican age. Image
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Polish archaeologists investigated the Castle Rock Pueblo settlement complex in Colorado and made a discovery that exceeded their “wildest expectations.” Archaeologists exploring in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh and oxygen-poor conditions
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Widespread caries and toothache – but also some dental work and filing of front teeth. Viking Age teeth from Varnhem bear witness to
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Biology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new research paper finds that genetic material from Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Last year, archaeologists excavating near Northampton, UK, made an extraordinary discovery. The research team unearthed a magnificent 1,300-year-old necklace made up of at
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