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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How should we live when we know we must die? The first work of world literature, the Gilgamesh epic poses this question. More
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Excvations in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Lagash continue, and archaeologists report they have unearthed a 5,000-year-old food tavern. A close-up of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found what they say is the first solid scientific evidence suggesting that Vikings crossed the North Sea to Britain with dogs
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A beautiful gold pendant on a chain linked to King Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon has been unveiled by the British Museum.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A photo submitted by an elderly woman has helped glacial archaeologists from Secrets of the Ice to identify a strange ancient artifact. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists are appealing to the public for help with an unusual carving they unearthed at Nesscliffe Hill, UK, in 2022. Paul Reilly, a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - At the end of 2022, MOLA archaeologists in Norfolk, UK, announced the amazing discovery shedding new light on the life of Anglo-Saxons. Scientists
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is always splendid when ancient knowledge can be preserved for future generations. One of the greatest Greek philosophers was Aristotle of Stagira
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have concluded that Anglo-Saxon monasteries were more resilient to Viking attacks than previously thought. Lyminge, a monastery in Kent, was on the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered 30 amazing ancient Roman gems while excavating at a site in modern-day Carlisle, just behind Hadrian’s Wall, located near the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Rome, Italy, have again reason to be proud of a new discovery. This time scientists unearthed an ancient marble statue of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 2,500 years ago, people tossed unique and beautiful treasures into a lake. Today the site is a drained peat bog converted into
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Our knowledge of the Neanderthals is constantly improving, but some aspects of our ancient ancestors' spiritual beliefs are still a riddle. Scientists are
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a 2.37-meter sword and an unusual Bronze Age mirror in Japan. The find was made in the prehistoric Tomio Maruyama
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AncientPages.com - That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique features of Africa’s ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A fragment of a wooden axle from a cart or possibly a chariot has recently been identified for us by dendrochronologist Michael Bamforth
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Over the past few years, citizen scientists from the Heritage Quest project have scoured the entire Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas for unknown
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists excavating at the Melka Kunture archaeological site in Ethiopia have discovered that early human species were resourceful and more intelligent than previously
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered elements of the city's fortifications and an intriguing carved hand imprint as they
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have previously discovered that the ancient Mesopotamian city of Lagash, which flourished nearly 5,000 years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team led by archaeologists at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has discovered the earliest human remains ever found in northern
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists excavating in Egypt have made a major archaeological discovery. In the heart of the southern city of Luxor, the Egyptian archaeological team
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The transition to agriculture from hunting and gathering in pre-colonial North America led to changes in age-independent mortality, or mortality caused by factors
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AncientPages.com - As Pompeii’s House of the Vettii finally reopens after a long process of restoration, news outlets appear to be struggling with how to report on the Roman sex
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Egyptians believed that when we died, our spiritual body sought out an afterlife similar to this world. But entry into this
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When ancient Romans built something, it was meant to last. Countless examples clearly show why historians and archaeologists often refer to ancient Romans
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Violence and warfare were widespread in many Neolithic communities across Northwest Europe, a period associated with the adoption of farming, new research suggests.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A while back, archaeologists discovered a well-preserved 1,000-year-old wooden ladder in the UK. The excavations at a site known as Field 44 near
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - UniSC's Professor Patrick Nunn and Roselyn Kumar didn't set out to rewrite history. They were simply trying to research how India's coastline had
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