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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Polish archaeologists investigated the Castle Rock Pueblo settlement complex in Colorado and made a discovery that exceeded their “wildest expectations.” Archaeologists exploring in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh and oxygen-poor conditions
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Widespread caries and toothache – but also some dental work and filing of front teeth. Viking Age teeth from Varnhem bear witness to
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Biology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new research paper finds that genetic material from Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Last year, archaeologists excavating near Northampton, UK, made an extraordinary discovery. The research team unearthed a magnificent 1,300-year-old necklace made up of at
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have uncovered parts of a Jurassic sea creature in a quarry near Peterborough, United Kingdom. Fossil hunter Jamie Jordan unearthed as many
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study suggests that the difference in height between female and male individuals in northern Europe during the Early Neolithic (8,000–6,000 years
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many reports from antiquity about outbreaks of plague mention Egypt as the source of pestilences that reached the Mediterranean. But was this really
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Masaryk University in Brno, a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, have made an extraordinary discovery. The
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -A metal detectorist found a rare gold coin in the mountains in Vestre Slidre municipality depicting two emperors and Jesus Christ. Archaeologists are now
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Statue heads of ancient Greek deities have been unearthed several times in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Turkey. Now, archaeologists report they have
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare roofed theater, markets, warehouses, a river port and other startling discoveries made by a Cambridge-led team of archaeologists challenge major assumptions
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Polish scientists have discovered the remains of over a thousand specimens of extinct animals from about 240 million years ago. Among them are
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have used radiocarbon dating to analyze the oldest true wooden frame saddle in East Asia, revealing how advances likely aided the rise
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Thousands of previously ignored small coins discovered in Marea, a city near Alexandria, have been examined by numismatists from the Faculty of Archaeology of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Not in all places where agriculture appeared did local populations quickly notice its benefits. In the areas from present-day Lithuania to Finland, for about
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Understanding the way in which sounds move through archaeological sites could offer insights into how ancient societies may have organized themselves. Excavated building
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 6 million years ago, in the deep forests of eastern Africa, something spectacular happened. Chimpanzees, our closest relative in the animal kingdom, evolved
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An amateur treasure hunter has found five well-preserved Bronze Age axe heads in the Starogard forest near Szczecin, Poland. It is a unique
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Despite the Roman Empire’s extensive military and cultural influence on the nearby Balkan peninsula, a DNA analysis of individuals who lived in the region
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists assisting with the restoration works of the Split City Museum in Croatia have made a surprising discovery. Beneath the building, they found
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, an international team of archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin has uncovered fortified prehistoric settlements in a remote region
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A series of ‘bone biographies’ created by a major research project tell the stories of medieval Cambridge residents as recorded on their skeletons,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have long been intrigued by the mysterious Menga Dolmen in Spain. The Menga Dolmen is one of the largest known ancient megalithic
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While scanning the Yucatan jungle in Mexico with lasers, scientists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered an 18-kilometer (11-mile)
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - McGill researchers challenge current understanding of dinosaur extinction by unearthing link between volcanic eruptions and climate change. Image credit: Public Domain What wiped
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery south of the Arctic Circle. Scientists call the place a cemetery even though the graves are
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A beautiful small Roman copper-alloy tortoise figurine has been recovered by a local metal detector user near Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, UK. Tortoises or
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Seven impressive Bronze Age swords and a large hoard of Slavic coins have been unearthed by volunteer archaeologists in Germany. The find was
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