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AncientPages.com - During excavations in the ruins of Machaerus, a citadel built by King Herod on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, a team of Hungarian archaeologists has
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AncientPages.com - The Egyptian blue is the world’s oldest artificial pigment. It appeared about 5,000 years ago in a tomb painting dated to the reign of Ka-sen, the last
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A secret escape tunnel built by the Crusaders in their fortress in Tiberias, 800 years ago, has been discovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists. It is
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Famous by the Greco-Trojan War that is the subject of Homer's epic poem The Iliad, the ancient city of Troy remains one of the most important and
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AncientPages.com - Not far from the town of Varberg, in the small community of Sunnsvära in Sweden, archaeologists have discovered 82 ancient pits. The mysterious pits are 3,000-year-old and
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AncientPages.com - Beautiful, elaborate mosaics, statues, ancient Roman silver and gold coins are among artifacts unearthed by archaeologists excavating a 1,700-year-old villa in Ptolemais, an important trading port for
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AncientPages.com - Sophisticated technology can shed new light on many prehistoric mysteries. Despite many theories and speculations, we still don’t know who the first Americans were and where they
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - During excavations conducted in Peru's Nepeña Valley in the 1960s, archaeologists discovered an artificial mound or pyramid with a crater at the top.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - More than 200 previously unknown remains of villages and an ancient city have been discovered by Polish archaeologists excavating in northern Mesopotamia - present day Iraqi Kurdistan. Most
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Aratus was an ancient Greek poet who lived between 315 and 245 B.C. He is today famous for his works describing various constellations and other celestial
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AncientPages.com - More than thousand years ago, superstitious inhabitants placed a clay pot with a sour soup, under the floor of their hut. It was their sacrificial offering to
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AncientPages.com - Deep beneath the city of Rome, Italy there is a vast ancient underground labyrinth. Here, we find the Domitilla catacombs that represents the roots of Christianity. Stretching
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Located on the slopes in the State of Veracruz, Mexico there is a very intriguing ancient Olmec site known as Tres Zapotes. A Professor of Anthropology who
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Peru have discovered traces of an ancient civilization inhabited by humans nearly 15,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene ages. The
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AncientPages.com - During the Middle Ages, many graves were re-opened. It has previously been assumed that this was because thieves wanted to steal valuable items such as jewellery and
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Two fossils of the species Graecopithecus freybergi, discovered in Greece and Bulgaria have now been dated to between 7.2 and 7.1 million years ago. The discovery is
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A huge Viking winter camp has been unearthed in Lincolnshire, England by archaeologists at the Universities of Sheffield and York. Thousands of Vikings established the site in
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AncientPages.com - A rare stone slab that was most probably used in fire making was excavated in Ramat Beit Shemesh, not far from Jerusalem, Israel. "The ancient people who
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mosaics unearthed during excavation works in the ancient city of Perge in the southern province of Antalya are known as “Turkey’s second Zeugma” for
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AncientPages.com - A collection of silver coins dating back to the days of Ivan the Terrible. was recently unearthed during construction work in downtown Moscow, Russia. Ten silver coins
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Where did the earliest Indians come from? This subject has been long debated among researchers. The Indian Subcontinent is a great place of languages, cultures and religions:
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 6m long boat made from a tree trunk has been discovered by archaeologists in a silted-up channel of the Witham, near Washingborough, East Midlands, England. It
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 1,700-year-old Roman-era underground Mithras temple has been discovered at the at the Zerzevan Castle located in Diyarbakır's Çınar district of Turkey. Earlier, archaeologists also unearthed an underground church, an
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The discovery of Homo naledi some years ago, an extinct hominin species caused a sensation. Suddenly we had a new human ancestor that could re-write our history
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AncientPages.com - Two 18th century ‘Collata Quipu’ artifacts preserved in a wooden box by elders of the region located in San Juan de Collata, in the province of Huarochiri, Peru may offer clues
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Researchers have deciphered an ancient tablet believed to depict the Biblical Tower of Babel that stood in Babylon during Biblical times. The tablet,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 4,000-year-old funerary garden has been discovered in Luxor, Egypt. This is the first such garden ever to be found and its analysis will provide valuable information
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AncientPages.com - When did humans first appear in North America? That's a question no scientist can answer. There are of course several hypotheses based on archaeological evidence, but new
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AncientPages.com - The discovery of lost ancient underground city of Samen is proof of how rewarding painstaking archaeology can be. Archaeologists have been excavating at this site for
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