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Ancient Symbols
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - This time our quest for the hidden history of mankind takes us to Peru where we encounter an enigmatic inscription that offers evidence Sumerians
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The research, led by Dr Matteo Borrini, forensic anthropologist and principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), applied forensic techniques on the remains to reconstruct the features
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Civilizations
Within the framework of the South Assassif Conservation Project on Luxor's west bank, an Egyptian-American team stumbled upon a 26th dynasty tomb that belongs to the vizier of
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Human Beginnings
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from The Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) found about 10,000 Neanderthal artifacts and a sleeping area at Abric
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This massive structure, called the Great Wall of India, surrounds the ancient Fort of Kumbhalgarh. Kumbhalgarh - the second most important Fort of
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Artifacts
A floor mosaic from the 4th century AD has been discovered by archaeologists in the downtown of the Bulgarian capital Sofia during excavations of the ruins of the
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Archaeologists have discovered headless remains in several large burial mounds in Semeytau, East Kazakhstan Oblast. The remains belong to ancient Huns and Sarmatians, Tengrinews reports citing Liter. The
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The 2015 archaeological expedition at the Prastio-Mesorotsos site has been completed, revealing it was seasonally occupied from Prehistoric to Historic periods and was probably a place for cooking
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Recent discovery of a marble slab with an important inscription about the Odrysian Kingdom will shed light on the past of the most powerful of the ancient Thracian
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Civilizations
During the first season of a three-year project at the site of Porta Nola, Pompeii, archaeologists report the first results. The study of the necropolis permits the study
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - King Ur-Nammu reigned in 2047-2030 BC and founded the Third Dynasty of Ur in Sumer. He initiated the so-called Ur III Period (2047-1750
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Artifacts
Mourning rings honouring post-medieval dead, emblazoned with skulls and crosses, have been declared archaeological treasure in Wales. Post-medieval mourning is revealed in skulls and inscriptions on three rings
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - It is believed that the ruins of ancient cities lie beneath the sands of the Kalahari Desert and they must be very old. This
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Aslantepe is one of the most excavated ancient sites in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Ancient throne made of adobe has been found during this year's excavations at
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located 16 meters below the coral island, the magnificent city of Kish is true proof of ancient engineering skills. The subterranean city in Kariz,
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Scientists have uncovered the bones of four key members of Virginia’s Jamestown colony. Jamestown was settled near the Chesapeake Bay in 1607. Named for England’s King James I,
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The oldest case of acute decompensated heart failure has been found in 3,500-year-old mummified remains, researchers have just announced. Consisting of just a head and canopic jars containing
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Artifacts
At a site near the Southwest Alaska village of Quinhagak archeologists have unearthed Yup’ik artifacts and the old village continues to reveal artifacts that give a glimpse into
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - Almost a year ago, archaeologists in Bulgaria discovered a sacrificial altar dedicated to Porobonus, an unknown Pagan god. The artifact was found at Roman fortress Ad
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cahuachi - once the capital of the Nazca culture and a major ceremonial center from the period 450 BC- 450 AD - is
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According to reports, researchers have discovered that the pigment Egyptian blue was used in Roman-era Egyptian mummy portraits. The pigment could not be seen with the naked eye.
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Artifacts
Decades ago, the world's oldest footwear was discovered in a cave in remote central Oregon. Now archaeologists will revisit this fascinating cave, in the hope of shedding new
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - Amateur archaeologists have made a sensational find of Viking Age silver coins in a field in Errested near Haderslev in south Jutland. So far, a total
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Civilizations
Sixty bodies were found on Sunday in a mass grave dating back to Roman times in a field in the Central Anatolian province of Kütahya by a farmer
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Polish conservators have just ended the first season of restoration of the oldest villa in the ancient town of Stabiae. The city of Stabiae, next to Pompeii and
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Ancient Idioms & Superstitions
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are two widespread superstitions associated with bad luck in the Western world. One of them includes the fear of Friday the 13th,
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Apparently not all prehistoric massive stone boxes were used to keep human remains. Many of them were found in rooms with very small
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Previously unknown rock paintings, covering rock shelters in the Kondoa district in central Tanzania, have been discovered by Maciej Grzelczyck, archaeologist from A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
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Artifacts
Ministry of Antiquities launches fund raising campaign to buy 4500-year-old statue sold last year in London, stops archeological cooperation with Northampton Museum for selling it Egypt's antiquities minister
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Civilizations
A marble block, considered the “water law” from 1,900 years ago, has been unearthed in the ancient city of Laodicea in the western province of Denizli and shows
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Civilizations
Glass-making furnaces dating back to the Roman Egypt period (30B.C.-395A.D.,) have been unearthed in Egypt’s Delta archaeological site of Tell Mutubis, the Antiquities Ministry stated Friday. The discovery
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Ongoing excavations at a site in the southern Peloponnese are offering rare insight into the ancient past of Laconia, about which very little physical evidence exists, the state-run
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - At one time, the 7,000-year-old Misis (Mopsuestia), located in the southern province of Adana,was known as the immortal city and had up to 100,000 inhabitants; now
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The surviving recorded graffiti written on the walls of a cave in central Asia may tell a 500-year-old story of climate change. Scientists have found unique writings on
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Cyrus Cylinder, sometimes referred to as the first “bill of human rights,” traces its origins to the Persian king Cyrus the Great’s
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