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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Reservoirs in the heart of an ancient Maya city were so polluted with mercury and algae that the water likely was undrinkable in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During archaeological excavations on Tappeh Ashraf (Ashraf Hill), archaeologists have discovered stone water well in Iran’s Isfahan province that dates back to the Sassanid
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A number of mud-brick Roman ovens and a large wall from the Egyptian Late Period have been unearthed at the Avenue of Sphinxes
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A jar burial cemetery has been unearthed at an ancient historic site in Iran’s central city of Isfahan. The cemetery dates back to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Isaura - inhabited by 10,000 people during the Roman period - is home to the Zengibar Castle, which was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Among their incredible findings is the discovery that the genome of an adult male buried in the heart of the Newgrange passage tomb
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Amazonian peoples who inhabited the region between 2,000 and 8,000 years ago left a legacy that today gives sustainable agriculture, the preservation of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans, but how, when, and from where they
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neandertals and Denisovans are the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans. Analyses of their genomes showed that they contributed genetically to present-day people
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A small standing bird carving—the oldest instance of East Asian three-dimensional art ever discovered has been studied by Zhanyang Li from Shandong University,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Italian researchers have coordinated 3D reconstructions of three of the wooden boats found at Fiumicino, which in today's Italy, is famous for the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Yorkshire archaeologists have just announced a discovery of a new prehistoric site located near Stonehenge that could shed some new light on the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have studied a 25,000-year-old burial site that sheds light on early human social practices. The interesting discoveries have been made in Grotte
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A great archaeological find has been reported from Italy. Using advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scientists have discovered an amazing ancient Roman city hidden
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered the elusive remains of what appears to be London's oldest theater known as Red Lion. The playhouse is thought to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have once again used LIDAR technology with success. Using light detection and ranging technology scientists have located the world's oldest and largest
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The collection of more than 25,000 fragments of ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls include, among other ancient texts, the oldest
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Analysis of the material on two Iron Age altars discovered at the entrance to the "holy of holies" of a shrine at Tel
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Canaanites are mentioned in Biblical texts, but the origin of the term is disputed. In Genesis they are described as descendants of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered an ancient giant skeleton and huge snake bones. It’s an extraordinary discovery, and if it’s genuine it offers evidence giants
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It all started in 2008 when archaeologists excavated a fascinating ancient archaeological site Guachimontones (‘Los Guachimontones’) is located just outside the modest little
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A tomb decorated with frescos dating back about 1,000 years ago, was accidentally discovered by a group of farmers in north China's Inner
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A large number of artifacts discovered in rescue excavations of a Thracian burial mound include an ostrich egg turned into a vessel and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A secret tunnel was accidentally discovered during construction works at the Østerport light rail station in Copenhagen. According to archaeologists from the Museum of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Because of its ability to capture extraordinarily accurate, high-resolution, 3D data LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has become an appreciated tool among archaeologists.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People living in the southern areas of today's Poland over 4,000 years ago were genetically similar to earlier communities from this area. Researchers
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many have claimed the Justinianic Plague (c. 541-750 CE) killed half of the population of the Roman Empire. Now, historical research and mathematical
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient people continued their centuries-long tradition of socializing and feasts, even after an unknown crisis around A.D. 650. More than a thousand years
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AncientPages.com - Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609 marks the creation of the modern globalized
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