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AncientPages.com - Ancient Romans loved boxing. The sport kept their soldiers fit and it was good entertainment the public enjoyed watching. There are many boxing scenes depicted on Roman
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AncientPages.com - Precious ancient manuscript M.910 was originally recorded by Coptic monks in Egypt roughly 1,500 years ago. Today, the badly managed manuscript is kept at the Morgan Library
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AncientPages.com - Using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) technology researchers have made an astonishing discovery that can re-write history of Mexico. Hidden in the heartland of Mexico, scientists have
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AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago, there was a mysterious European culture known as the Vinca culture. These people left a legacy in form of valuable artifacts covered with
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AncientPages.com - It took months to write a book during the Middle Ages. Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment. Paper wasn't available in Europe until
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AncientPages.com - Beautiful Isle of May is today inhabited by sea birds and seals and the remote island is owned and managed by Scottish Natural Heritage as a National Nature Reserve.
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AncientPages.com - During the Viking Age females took part in battles and women could become great warriors. Archaeologists have examined an ancient tomb in the Viking town of Birka.
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AncientPages.com - Who made these remarkable huge animal sculptures? What tools did our ancestors use? Could this be the work of an ancient lost Sahara civilization? Located at the
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AncientPages.com - King Ferdinand of Aragon's secret coded letters have puzzled historians for centuries. King Ferdinand and his commander Gonzalo de Córdoba used a mysterious coding system consisting of
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A new study of Sumerian clay tablets has provided scientists with valuable information about medicine in Mesopotamia. As previously discussed on Ancient Pages, medicine
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AncientPages.com - Nefertiti is today remembered as an Egyptian queen renowned for her beauty. She ruled alongside her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, during the mid-1300s B.C. In a historic forensic
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AncientPages.com - Legendary pirate Black Sam , sometimes nicknamed the 'Robin Hood of the Seas' was an English pirate who operated in the early 18th century. Researchers have discovered a shipwreck near
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AncientPages.com - Neanderthals had large brains and made complex tools. Previous studies have showed Neanderthals were much more advanced than we previously thought, but they lacked drawing ability. Neanderthals
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AncientPages.com - The mysterious sand mounds in and around Mapoon, in north-eastern Australia have long been a subject of controversy. Are these puzzling mounds natural formations or were they
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Linguistic Discoveries
AncientPages.com - A previously unidentified language has been found by linguists from the Lund University in Sweden, during their work in the Malay Peninsula. The language has been given
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AncientPages.com - DNA studies reveal that people in Britain had blue eyes and dark skin 10,000 years ago. Who were the first people to arrive in Britain and where
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AncientPages.com - During excavations of an ancient Egyptian city at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt, archaeologists from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, unearthed well-preserved settlement remains dating to an important
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AncientPages.com - Researchers at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) at the Pontifical University of Mexico investigate a spiral formation of human skeletal remains discovered in an ancient
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AncientPages.com - The Black Death is one of the most devastating plagues in human history. The Black Death, started in the Gobi Desert as a minor disease known as Yersinia
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AncientPages.com - Three rock-hewn burial shafts filled with coffins and faience pots have been uncovered in Egypt's Abusir necropolis near Cairo, reports Ahram Online. The discovery was made after
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AncientPages.com - Over 7,000 stone tools were unearthed in excavations at archaeological site at Attirampakkam, about 60 kilometers from Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report discovery of tomb that belong to the 5th Dynasty top official Hetpet who was the priestess of Hathor, an ancient Egyptian goddess who personified the principles of joy, feminine
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AncientPages.com - Historical records state that the Viking Great Army wintered in Repton, Derbyshire, in 873 A.D. and drove the Mercian king into exile. Using radiocarbon dating scientists have
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AncientPages.com - Using LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology researchers of Ithaca College uncovered thousands of new Maya structures previously undetected beneath smothering vegetation. The survey of encompassed Several
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AncientPages.com - It would seem that all ancient myths about a great flood are true after all. About 12,800 years ago, the Earth emerged from another ice age. Things
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AncientPages.com - Researchers at University of California, Davis have centered their study on how dice were made and changed over the last 2000 years. The dice accompanied people very
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AncientPages.com - The Whitechapel murders that terrorized London in 1888 are still remembered thanks to the legend of Jack the Ripper, who was never caught. The true identity of
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AncientPages.com - Apparently, power of Pharaoh Ramses is fake news. Archaeological evidence from an Egyptian excavation 200 miles east of the Libyan border has helped ruin the formidable reputation
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AncientPages.com - Many skilled cryptographers have studied the Voynich Manuscript and many attempts have been made to crack the ancient code and they have failed. Now, computing scientists - Greg
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