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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Indian archaeologists have discovered that hemp – a mix of hemp with clay and lime plaster – has prevented the famous ancient Ellora
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AncientPages.com - The remains of an Anglo-Saxon island - home to a Middle Saxon settlement - have been uncovered at Little Carlton near Louth, Lincolnshire by archaeologists from the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Tarkhan Dress, a V-neck linen shirt, has been confirmed as the world’s oldest woven garment, with radiocarbon testing dating the garment to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Medieval Norse-Icelandic sagas are filled with tales of mead-drinking Norse Gods and beautiful Valkyries serving refreshments to fallen warriors in Valhalla. Valhalla -
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient stone circle known as 'Stones of the Sun (In Irish, 'Lios na Grainsi') was built around 2000 BC by the people
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AncientPages.com - A Roman-Byzantine grave has been unearthed during the restoration of the historic Casa Garibaldi building on Istanbul’s famous Istiklal Avenue, Turkey The grave was found when a
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AncientPages.com - Artifacts of the ancient city of Kibyra can be seen in the digitally thanks to a laser technology project initiated by Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey. Researchers
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AncientPages.com - An analysis of three published and two unpublished cuneiform tablets from the British Museum has revealed that Babylonian astronomers used geometry to calculate the motions of Jupiter
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AncientPages.com - For the first time, after the sustained efforts of two generations, Chinese archaeologists have discovered ruins of pottery marked with the characters for "Yueyang" in a location
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AncientPages.com - A brilliant Renaissance polymath, John Dee was an English mathematician, natural philosopher, and student of the occult. John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was also adviser to
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AncientPages.com - The dead were not buried until they had decomposed to skeletal remains. The skeletons were then dismantled and bones of similar types were buried together, say Danish
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AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers used cutting edge genome technology to solve a mystery that has puzzled archaeologists for more than a decade. Did the skeletons belong to gladiators, soldiers
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AncientPages.com - Seven caves (Buddhist 'viharas') have been discovered in the forests of the sprawling Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivli, on the northern fringes of the city. They are
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at a major project to upgrade the A1 to a motorway in North Yorkshire have uncovered several significant discoveries. The discoveries include a rare Roman brooch
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AncientPages.com - Genetic data does not support ancient trans-Atlantic migration, Kansas University professor says. This hypothesis, which was recently supported by several documentaries and publications, has contributed to the
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AncientPages.com - Columbia librarians have digitized an important anatomical flap book, which is an early attempt to present the three dimensionality of the human body in the two dimensional
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AncientPages.com - The Meroitic Empire is one of the civilizations of ancient Africa. It was reported by the Greek historian Herodotus as a rival to Greek (Ptolemaic) Egypt. The
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AncientPages.com - Longvek was the capital city in ancient Cambodia, for almost 200 years following the sack of Angkor by the Siamese in 1431. The city's records tell
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have revealed the best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain, which provides an extraordinary insight into domestic life 3,000 years ago. Dated to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study of the ancient burial practices from the Central Apulian region in pre-Roman Italy sheds light on economic and social mobility, military
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AncientPages.com - Evidence of a civilization that existed more than 1,300 years ago was unearthed in less than 20 centimeters of soil Monday at Philippi Estate Park in Sarasota.
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AncientPages.com - Many fascinating artifacts have already been discovered during Yenikapi excavations, which tell story of a 8,500-year-old city. Among these findings, which are dated to the Neolithic Age,
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AncientPages.com - Tom Garrison was four hours away from camp — headed into the city down a bumpy jungle road to get treated for poisonwood exposure — when he got
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AncientPages.com - Archaeological evidence shows that despite hygienic innovations introduced by the Romans, intestinal parasites such as whipworm, roundworm and Entamoeba histolytica dysentery did not decrease as expected in
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AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists working with paleopathologist Albert Zink and microbiologist Frank Maixner from the European Academy (EURAC) in Bozen/Bolzano have now identified the presence of Helicobacter
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Myths & Legends
AncientPages.com - Scientists once again try to restore the chronology of the Homeric epics Iliad and Odyssey. They compare the natural phenomena the epic describes with astronomically ascertained ones,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The remains of a 3,400-year-old citadel the citadel that once served the needs of mariners, who often visited the ancient port city, was recently uncovered in Nahariya,
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AncientPages.com - An international study based on DNA from Anatolian remains and coordinated from Stockholm shows importance of the role Anatolia played, when farming spread throughout Europe some 8000
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists digging in Newhaven, a historic fishing village in Scotland, discovered poorly preserved human bones dated to the sixteenth or seventeenth century. The team was looking for
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