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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Shoshenq III was a Pharaoh of ancient Egypt who ruled during the Third Intermediate Period, specifically during the 22nd Dynasty. His reign is generally
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ix Ch’ak Ch’een was a powerful Maya queen who ruled the ancient city of Cobá, located on the Yucatán Peninsula in present-day Quintana
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Jordan Codices are a set of sealed books discovered in Jordan that have captivated scientists and historians alike. Some scholars have proposed that
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The five-meter-tall and solitary stone structure atop a hill near Kars, Turkey, has long caught people's attention. However, not for what is known
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent international study published in Scientific Reports has identified a previously unknown Neanderthal site on Portugal’s Algarve coast. This site features the first
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A significant archaeological discovery has recently been made on the Eurasian Steppe, where researchers have uncovered a large Bronze Age city known as
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient Roman sculpted portrait of an unidentified woman was discovered in a residential house in the western section of Chersonesos Taurica, located
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hallie Meredith, an art history professor and glassblower at Washington State University, made a significant discovery about ancient Roman glasswork while examining a private
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study conducted by the Yale Ancient Pharmacology Program (YAPP) has identified traces of opiates in an ancient alabaster vase from the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Avars, originating from Central and Inner Asia, arrived in the Carpathian Basin around 567/568. They were the first to unify this region
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An unusual Roman circular burial site has been uncovered, notable for the absence of any human bones. This finding is particularly intriguing, as most
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Monte Sierpe (also known as the Band of Holes), meaning "serpent mountain," is a remarkable archaeological site in the Pisco Valley of the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During excavations at Øvre Eiker near Oslo, Norway, archaeologists uncovered an unusually large longhouse. What sets this building apart is its impressive width: it
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from Cairo University and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), working within the ScanPyramids research project, have discovered two hidden air-filled anomalies in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A newly published study in Scientific Data introduces Itiner-e, a high-resolution digital dataset and map detailing the road networks across the Roman Empire as
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the summer of 2020, an international research team led by a University of Arizona archaeologist announced the discovery of the largest known
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent findings from the Kani Shaie Archaeological Project have yielded valuable insights into the early history of Mesopotamia and the Zagros Mountains, shedding
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Archaeoastronomy
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Over 2,000 years before Europeans arrived in the Americas, indigenous civilizations in Mexico and Guatemala had already developed sophisticated calendrical systems. They used
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dating from 1000–800 BCE, the Peebles Hoard is a significant archaeological find consisting of over 500 distinctive bronze and organic objects, many of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent archaeological excavations in Benin City, Nigeria, conducted prior to the construction of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), have revealed previously unexplored
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - For decades, numerous scientists held the view that dinosaurs had already been declining in both population and diversity well before the asteroid
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working at the Topraktepe site, formerly known as the Byzantine city of Eirenopolis, have uncovered a carbonized loaf of bread dating back
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sardis in Türkiye has a history marked by frequent changes in rule, from the Greeks and Romans to the Ottoman Empire. Despite this
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncienPages.com - Lake Mezzano, situated in Tuscany, Italy, is a small volcanic crater lake that formed around 400,000 years ago. Historians associate it with the ancient
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For many years, researchers have discussed two main theories about how people first migrated to North America: one suggests migration across the Siberian
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A recent radiocarbon dating study has provided new insights into the reign of Pharaoh Ahmose. This significant research highlights his pivotal role in reuniting
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Cahokia emerged as the largest city north of modern-day Mexico around 1050 CE, with a population exceeding 20,000. It was composed of three
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Urartu was a significant state that emerged in the first millennium B.C. in Anatolia, now modern Turkey, following the fall of the Hittite state
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During an excavation at Tel Al-Jaruba in northern Sinai, an Egyptian archaeological team uncovered the stone foundations of a massive fortress from the New
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