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AncientPages.com - There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare 2,500-year-old Scythian bone sceptre has been found in a grave by archaeologists excavating in the prehistoric salt mining and urban center
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AncientPages.com - You might be forgiven for thinking of abortion as a particularly modern phenomenon. But there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that abortion has been a constant
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Africa is the birthplace of modern humans and the continent with the highest level of genetic diversity. While ancient DNA studies reveal some
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Um Al-Qaab archaeological site in Abydos in Sohag Governorate, Egypt, have discovered hundreds of 5,000-year-old well-preserved wine jars and grave
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The cuneiform tablet unearthed in the Hittite city of Samuha points to the connection with the famous temple of the Goddess Sausga (also
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Grettir's saga is considered one of the Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This literary work of
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Artifacts
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - The game mancala may have originated as far back as 6000 BCE in Jordan and is played around the world to this day. It
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While searching for a missing gold ring with a metal detector, a family in Norway found, to their big surprise, something entirely different
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Koine Greek inscription paraphrasing Psalms 86 was discovered by archaeologists at the site of Hyrcania Fortress in the Judean Desert. Adorned with
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of evolutionary scientists has presented evidence the Neanderthals vanishing when Homo sapiens emerged in Europe may have been coincidental. In a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed a Roman cosmetics shop in the marketplace in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Turkey. Famous for its well-preserved temple of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Glacial archaeologists working in Norway have once again discovered fascinating ancient artifacts under the ice. Near a mountain pass, not far from Norway's
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Places
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th-century slayings, and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in southern Europe (9,500 and 6,200
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found a 2,300-year-old tomb of a Greek courtesan (hetaira – in Ancient Greek) in a burial cave in Jerusalem. The cremated
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A remarkable archaeological breakthrough has been made with excavating and restoring rooms in the pyramid of Sahura, which is located in Abusir. The
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DNA
AncientPages.com - When researchers used DNA from the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man”, one of Britain’s oldest skeletons, they unveiled what the first inhabitants of what now is Britain actually
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Birds were an important source of food for hunter-gatherer communities in Upper Mesopotamia at the beginning of the Neolithic period, around 9,000 years
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It does not happen often archaeologists find an ancient unlooted Roman sarcophagus. When it happens, like it just did in France, it is
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Those of us interested in ancient history enjoy learning as much as possible about the daily life of our ancestors. What food did
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Previous studies show Neanderthals invented or developed birch tar making technique independently from Homo sapiens. Studying prehistoric production processes of birch bark tar
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For two years, archaeologists have been excavating Kremna, an ancient city located in the province of Burdur (Taurus mountains)a city located on the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 2,000 years ago, a ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations have revealed large Roman latrines located in Bet Shean, Israel. These latrines are the largest in the country, with 60 wooden
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Ancient Technology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered that ancient Roman glass, known as "wow glass," has formed a strange type of crystal that refracts light in surprising
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the Archaeological Zone of Palenque in southern Mexico report they have found an ancient Maya nose ornament made of human
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Minoan society developed at the end of the third millennium BC on the largest island of the Aegean Sea – Crete, which was
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For as long as anyone can remember, children loved to play with various toys, but kids living a long time ago did not
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As many as 35 beautiful 1,400-year-old gold figures were discovered at a site where a Pagan temple was once located outside Lillehammer, Norway.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have long tried to solve a complicated Ice Age mystery, and they now suggest pollen analysis may be the answer to this
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