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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early humans not only knew how to use fire, but they also developed sophisticated technologies for making tools. They may have had a
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Of the six species of early humans, only Homo sapiens have managed to survive climate change on Earth. Now, a new study
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two weeks ago, a team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered a burial well in Minya’s Al-Gharafa archaeological area of Tuna El-Gebel. The limestone coffin,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Today many modern parents visit shops to buy toys for children. Ancient people also wanted their kids to have something fun to play
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The fragments of various storage jars of different types and sizes had been uncovered over the years, and they played an important role
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Canadian woman has sent back to Italy five artifacts she stole from Pompeii in 2005, during her visit to Pompeii, the ancient
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Iranian archaeologists have found an ancient settlement in the northwestern part of the country, near Beygush Tepe, an archaeological site in Chaldoran county,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ball games are one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. Not only are ball games an important form of mass
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient gold earring was found during excavations at the site of the Ancient Roman colony Deultum near the town of Debelt, Burgas
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The loss of tropical rainforests and grasslands that once dominated Southeast Asia caused the extinction of many of the region's megafauna, and probably
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Romans understood the value of salt. Salt was a scarce and expensive commodity, and its value was legendary. In fact, “the word
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) have digitally reconstructed buildings that can now be
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a careful interdisciplinary study of rare shields finds, researchers are finally able to reveal the last piece of the puzzle of how
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found a burial of an Anglo-Saxon warlord in Berkshire that could redraw the map of post-Roman Britain. It could also change
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Throughout its history, the ancient city of Patara on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, was a region combining various nations and cultures. Image credit: AA
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 2,000-year-old burial complex has been excavated in the south of Khakassia by a team of Siberian archaeologists. Left: Individual burial of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A workshop for smelting copper ore once operated in the Neveh Noy neighborhood of Beer Sheva, the capital of the Negev Desert, according
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The cathedral in Odense, Denmark, has for nine centuries held the relics of the Danish King St. Canute the Holy and his brother
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An Egyptian archaeological mission uncovered an impressive collection of 59 intact and sealed coffins at Saqqara Necropolis south of Cairo. Image credit: Reuters
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a number of ancient Egyptian artifacts in a burial well in Minya Governorate. The findings include a limestone coffin,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A carved statue of the god Nefertum was unearthed in Saqqara necropolis alongside a group of intact wooden coffins. The Egyptian archaeologists excavating
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stone animals such as stone lions and stone rams were placed on top of the tombstones of brave and courageous people as a
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Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - A very strange 5,000-year-old clay figurine has been found in Siberia. The Bronze Age statuette has a tattooed face and a bone mask. It
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has now pinpointed the precise date and nature of the Ilopango volcanic eruption that took place 1590 years
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team led by Ana Isabel Ortega Martínez, an archaeologist at the CENIEH (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana), has recently
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Whenever the Sphinx is mentioned most think of Egypt, but the Sphinx was a being most ancient civilizations were familiar with. Artifacts depicting
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have completed the excavation of a huge 2,500-year-old water cistern, located in Lumbarda on the southern Croatian island of Korčula. Throughout its
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient paintings showing eight Buddhist saints possibly dating back to over 1,300 years ago have been discovered on temple columns blackened by soot.
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