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AncientPages.com - One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Early Maltese temples were egg-shaped and resembled the womb of the goddess of fertility. Later, from 4,000 to 3,000 BC, the Maltese built
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As a child, he was unlike his peers, and this made him a target for bullies. It was a long and lonely journey
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AncientPages.com - Remarkably similar carvings and simple cross sculptures mark special sites or places once sacred, spanning a zone stretching from the Irish and Scottish coasts to Iceland.
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AncientPages.com - Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human – but is there more to it? The brain’s shape, as well as the shapes
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Ledberg Stone (Ledbergsstenen) is considered one of Sweden's most beautiful Runestones. This landmark is also one of the country's more familiar runestones due
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most perplexing ancient Chinese artifacts ever discovered is the jade cong that offers evidence that our ancestors were familiar with
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The 2,500-year-old Empuries (also Emporiae) site on the Costa Brava was built in 575 BC. It was a Greek and later a Roman colony
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AncientPages.com - One of my life’s aims is to swim in as many lakes, rivers, pools and oceans as I possibly can, to use my liberty and swimming
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AncientPages.com - Cats had a bad reputation in the middle ages. Their presumed links with paganism and witchcraft meant they were often treated with suspicion. But despite their association with the supernatural,
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AncientPages.com - If you’ve already spend hours shoveling snow this year, you may be dismayed to realize that technically, it’s not yet winter. According to the astronomical definition,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, Hvergelmir (located in Niflheim) is a "bubbling boiling spring." According to the Prose Edda, the spring is one of the three
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AncientPages.com - A village with the Old English name "Filthy Pool" wasn't an auspicious location to discover one of the most spectacular burials of the Anglo Saxon period.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Frigg is an early European goddess and a prominent mythological figure in Norse mythology. In Norse beliefs, she was the personification of the sky,
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AncientPages.com - When did humans first begin to speak, which speech sounds were uttered first, and when did language evolve from those humble beginnings? These questions have long
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - About 1,000 years ago, legendary King Harald Bluetooth built several impressive Viking fortresses. Today, little remains of these once-powerful ancient buildings, but reconstructions
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The problem with researching Iceland's ancient history is the lack of written sources. Most scholars say Iceland was discovered by Norse people who
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The prehistoric ruins of the Din Lligwy settlement have a long history spanning three eras. It is a fascinating place on the eastern
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AncientPages.com - A little over a year ago we reported on a large area at the foot of the Asperillo cliff, on the coast of the Doñana Natural Area
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It is one of the strangest ancient desert mysteries one can come across. Truth be told, no one knows what happened. Some scholars
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AncientPages.com - We humans can't stop playing with our food. Just think of all the different ways of serving potatoes—entire books have been written about potato recipes alone.
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AncientPages.com - In evolutionary terms, the human population has rocketed in seconds. The news that it has now reached 8 billion seems inexplicable when you think about our
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AncientPages.com - It couldn’t have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun now have a promising new
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Norway's stave churches were built on remarkable technology that contributed to their uniqueness. The structures are impressive and highly unique examples of medieval
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AncientPages.com - Imagine that you have an unhealthy interest in your neighbors' lives. Unable to ask them directly, you rifle through their rubbish bins. You find the bones
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AncientPages.com - When you imagine life for ordinary people in ancient Britain, you'd be forgiven for picturing quaint villages where everyone looked and spoke the same way. But
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AncientPages.com - In many popular accounts of human prehistory, civilization emerged in a linear fashion. Our ancestors started as Paleolithic hunter-gatherers living in small, nomadic and egalitarian bands.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When the bell begins to toll, Lord, have mercy on the soul.’ - wrote The Venerable Bede (672-735). In days past, when good
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AncientPages.com - It was a well-kept secret among historians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that the practice of magic was widespread in the ancient Mediterranean.
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