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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The continent of North America is where horses first emerged. Millions of years of evolutionary changes transformed the horse before it became the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A text thought to be lost by the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century BC) has been discovered thanks to multispectral imaging, then deciphered
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near Garforth in Leeds, UK, have made a "once-in-a-lifetime" find. Scientists report they have discovered multiple ancient burials. The hidden cemetery
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People living on the ‘Swahili coast’ - the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa - have African and Asian ancestry according to new
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It sounds a little like Stone Age standup: A Denisovan and a human walk past a bees’ nest heavy with honeycomb. What happens
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It is called radiocarbon 3.0, the newest method in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A mysterious ancient stone structure was discovered while laying a fiber optic cable in Torreano, a town of 2,060 inhabitants in Friuli-Venezia Giulia,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In their recent publication in the Journal of Human Evolution, UConn Department of Anthropology Professor Christian Tryon and Shara Bailey, Director of the Center
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) have discovered traces of previously unknown graves and settlement activity at several locations along Trondheim Fjord. Scientists hope
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A previously unknown Crusades-era bird pendant found in Lappajärvi in the 1960s is now in the collection of the Finnish Heritage Agency. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A scientist has conducted a spatial analysis of the faunal remains and lithic tools for the Neanderthal occupation of level F at the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detector has found an ancient Roman fragment made of silver in Norfolk. The piece was obviously part of something, but what
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient mosaic floor adorned with colorful floral designs has been re-uncovered after 40 years, along the Israel National Trail. The mosaic floor
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique 1,000-year-old medieval golden treasure was unearthed by a Dutch historian, who stumbled upon it while using a metal detector. Part of the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com- When early Stone Age farmers first moved into Europe from the Near East about 8,000 years ago, they met and began mixing with the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Tomb and urn images shed light on the intricacies of Etruscan and Roman civilization at least 2,000 years ago, reviving it for modern
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stonehenge is an astonishingly complex monument, which attracts attention mostly for its spectacular megalithic circle and "horseshoe," built around 2600 B.C. Over the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Chemical and isotopic analysis of copper artifacts from southern Africa reveals new cultural connections among people living in the region between the 5th
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The discovery of the Gerdrup grave surprised scientists because it challenged our understanding of Viking burials. Who were the individuals buried in the double
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It had been thought to date that the species Homo sapiens has disproportionately large temporal lobes compared to other anthropoid primates, the group
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As the excavations at Pañamarca continue, archaeologists report many fascinating discoveries that help shed more light on the ancient history of Peru. Of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Ashaninka are the most numerous Indigenous people living in the rainforests of Peru and Brazil where they inhabit a crucial area between
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest plateau above sea level, is one of the harshest environments settled by humans. It has a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists announced recently they had solved the bog body mystery in Europe. A major study of over 1,000 ancient bog bodies across Scandinavia
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from INRAP (France's National Institute for Preventive Archaeology) excavating in the Sernam/ Boulingrin district have unearthed a vast Roman-era
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Traces of ancient Roman presence can be found all over the UK. While preparing a site for constructing a new Aldi supermarket in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The unicorn is a legendary animal often depicted on ancient seals and in Medieval manuscripts. The beautiful and mysterious animal has fascinated people
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Notre-Dame de Paris is the first known cathedral of Gothic-style architecture to be initially constructed with extensive use of iron to bind
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations led by researchers from the University of Gothenburg show that the coveted metal copper and a sheltered location turned the Cypriot village
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