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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many believe climate change and environmental degradation caused the Maya civilization to fall—but a new survey shows that some Maya kingdoms had sustainable
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The third millennium BCE is a highly dynamic period in the prehistory of Europe and western Asia, characterized by large-scale social and political
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Romans were masters in the field of building solid aqueducts that in many cases survived the passage of time. “Engineers in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study explores the complex relationship between poisonous mercury and humans' health during 5,000 years of history. Mercury is considered to be
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Latest scientific findings suggest the ancestral Native American population does not originate in Japan, as believed by many archaeologists. A widely accepted theory
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Indigenous fishing practices can be used to inform sustainable management and conservation today, according to a new study from Simon Fraser University.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Being a wine taster may sound like an enjoyable profession to many but as we all know drinking too much can give you
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Roman Empire was ruled by 175 men, from Augustus (63 BCE-19 CE) to Constantine XI (1405-53), including the Eastern or Byzantine Empire
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating on the cemetery site, near the ruins of Lindisfarne on the Holy Island, off the northeast coast of England archaeologists uncovered
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In ancient times, the Assyrians were one of the Near East’s superpowers, controlling a landmass that stretched from Iran to Egypt. They accomplished
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The origin and early dispersal of Transeurasian languages, including, among others, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, is among the most disputed issues
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stone Age cities sound like something of an oxymoron. But as many as 10 000 people lived in Çatalhöyük in Turkey some 8000-9000
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Anyone traveling from the German city of Brandenburg via Berlin to Frankfurt an der Oder at the Polish-German border does so along an
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of international researchers led by the University of Arizona reported last year that they had uncovered the largest and oldest Maya
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers, led by Professor Lee Berger from Wits University, has revealed the first partial skull of a Homo naledi
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The theory that there was once a second sphinx is not new, but despite many claims, no one has been able to provide
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The period of time when anatomically modern humans first appeared in a particular region is always hotly debated amongst scientists. In western Europe, the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating at the Saqqara necropolis a team of archaeologists uncovered the tomb of Ptah-M-Wia, head of the treasury during the reign of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research has analyzed a rare collection of non-returning boomerangs from Kinipapa (Cooper Creek), near Innamincka in South Australia's far northeast. The four
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stunning new reconstructions have revealed how Scotland's largest known Pictish fort may have looked over one thousand years ago. Three-dimensional images of Burghead
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Four rare Late Neolithic chalk plaques from the Stonehenge region have been subjected to non-invasive Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technology in a new
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The burial of legendary queen Emma of Normandy has been discovered in Winchester Castle, United Kingdom. "Emma of Normandy is one of the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers, led by University of Winnipeg palaeoanthropologist Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, has announced the naming of a new species of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Thirty years ago, archeologists excavated the tomb of an elite 40-50-year-old man from the Sicán culture of Peru, a society that predated the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many Dutch ships passed the West Australian coast while enroute to Southeast Asia in the 1600s—and the national heritage listed shipwreck, Batavia, has revealed
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While some current scientific theories point to ancient Chaco Canyon, a distinctive archaeological site in the American southwest, as simply a prehistoric ceremonial
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A man's claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull has been confirmed using DNA extracted from Sitting Bull's
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As part of the Silk Road and located at the geographical intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has
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