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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists from the Universities of Granada and Cambridge, as well as the Government of Catalonia, have identified the oldest pieces

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After almost 2,000 years, the first full word from the Herculaneum scroll has been deciphered by a 21-year-old computer science student at the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the karstic caves of Puerto Rico, cave art paints the rock walls. Previous research has assigned ages to this art based on

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Contemporary humans carry in their cells a small amount of DNA derived from Neanderthals and Denisovans. “Denny,” a 90,000-year-old fossil individual, recently identified

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A magnificent Bronze Age treasure has been discovered in Switzerland. The adventure started when Franz Zahn examined a freshly harvested carrot field in

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For many people, seaweed holds a reputation as a superfood, heralded for its health benefits and sustainability. Still, it appears our European ancestors

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have used gold impurities in silver coins and lead pollution in Greenland ice to show that the Romans were early pioneers of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - While documenting fossil tracksites along a stretch of Lake Powell, a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) field crew discovered

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - With its low amounts of rain and soaring high temperatures, the Sahara Desert is often regarded as one of Earth's most extreme and

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa is an eternal masterpiece that has now given up a secret. Using X-rays and infrared spectroscopy to

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The fact that Neanderthals were able to make a fire and use it, among other things, for cooking, demonstrates their intelligence. "This confirms

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Archaeologists have revealed that a hoard of coins buried in a small pot, just discovered in Glencoe, Scotland, paints a fascinating picture of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Translating ancient texts, filling in missing parts of clay tablets: articles are often popping up about the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence for

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New imaging and scientific investigations by a team including a King's College London academic has found traces of the original paint used to

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings are often depicted as crude barbarians running around yelling and waving with swords, but there are many reasons we should reconsider whether