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AncientPages.com - Religion is a human universal. For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals. Throughout history, every human society has featured

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Fairy circles – barren patches which make polka-dot patterns in dry and desert areas – were first described by scientists in Namibia in

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists investigating Exeter Cathedral’s historic Cloister Garden have uncovered clues to its Roman past. The archaeological investigation is part of the cathedral’s project to build

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - In a new study published in Hebrew University’s Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology, Dr. Daniel Vainstub deciphered a partially preserved inscription that was found on

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers have pinpointed a date when elite Mongol Empire people were drinking yak milk, according to a study co-led

Conny Waters -  Ancientpages.com - Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Ancient 2-meter-long amphibians swam like crocodiles long before true crocodiles existed according to a new study. During the Late Permian Period, just

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A text thought to be lost by the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century BC) has been discovered thanks to multispectral imaging, then deciphered

AncientPages.com - A recently discovered note, drawn up by Leonardo da Vinci's father, Piero, in November 1452, shows that he emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina. The scholar who found

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It is called radiocarbon 3.0, the newest method in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In their recent publication in the Journal of Human Evolution, UConn Department of Anthropology Professor Christian Tryon and Shara Bailey, Director of the Center

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A previously unknown Crusades-era bird pendant found in Lappajärvi in the 1960s is now in the collection of the Finnish Heritage Agency. The

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  A metal detector has found an ancient Roman fragment made of silver in Norfolk. The piece was obviously part of something, but what