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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists say they have uncovered the first evidence of an unknown ancient 'Silk Road' in Israel. Scientists say they have discovered an unknown
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time in a century, archaeologists excavating in Egypt have discovered a 16 meters long ancient papyrus in the Saqqara area.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Pronounced climate fluctuations and changed conditions for agriculture coincided with the rise and fall of the Persian Empires, according to an international study
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Ancient Technology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - "It has been documented since the Renaissance that an air bubble rising in water will deviate from its straight, steady path to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The CENIEH participates in a study in which dental remains of Homo antecessor were analyzed using Micro-Computed Tomography: the results indicate that this
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Crocodiles were mummified in a unique way at the Egyptian site of Qubbat al-Hawa during the 5th Century BC, according to a study
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals in Combe-Grenal (France) preferred to hunt in open environments, and their hunting strategies did not alter during periods of climatic change, according to
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A surprising discovery was made in the Field Museum in Chicago, US. An ancient sword that sat inside the Field Museum for nearly
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study led by Western biological anthropology professor Jay Stock, suggests that milk consumption in some regions between 7,000 and 2,000 years
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from a variety of Spanish institutions have managed to reconstruct the diet of some 50 individuals buried more than 3,000 years ago
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The world's oldest known runestone is currently on exhibition, attracting international attention among runic scholars and archaeologists. The stone has inscriptions up to
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Places
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using an interactive map, you can find out which Indigenous land you live on. The map covers the whole world and was deliberately
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you take a magnifying glass and a flashlight and look at your teeth very carefully in the mirror, in places you can
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - With the help of new archaeogenetic data, scientists have obtained exciting insights into the social order of the Aegean Bronze Age. Life picture:
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A young girl has made the discovery of a lifetime! During a visit to Calvert Beach in Maryland on Christmas Day, nine-year-old Molly
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists excavating in Luxor, Egypt, has announced the discovery of a mysterious ancient tomb. According to Mostafa Waziri, head of
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Historical Figures
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It has been decided the skeleton of the Irish Giant Charles Byrne will not be part of the controversial exhibition at the Hunterian
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Humans and chimpanzees differ in only one percent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Eight over-4,000-year-old, ostrich eggs were uncovered near an ancient fire pit in the Nitzana sand dunes in the Negev, in the south of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -The analysis of ancient DNA allows scientists to trace human evolution and make important discoveries about modern populations. The data revealed by ancient DNA
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Slovakia have made an unusual find. The remains of 38 individuals were found in a ditch surrounding the settlement of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The movement of people across the Bering Sea from North Asia to North America is a well-known phenomenon in early human history. Nevertheless,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Europe's bog body phenomenon has long fascinated scientists. Many European countries have discovered countless bodies preserved by the bogs’ cool, acidic conditions and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Greek historian Strabo referred to the presence of an important shrine located on the west coast of the Peloponnese some 2,000 years
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have unraveled secrets from ancient Latin texts written on papyrus. This work could tell us a great deal about what Roman society
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., many people in Pompeii lived a comfortable life. At the time of the destruction,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Smallpox was once one of humanity's most devastating diseases, but its origin is shrouded in mystery. Scientific estimates of when the smallpox virus
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists say they are investigating a 1-million-year-old human skull that gives a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into the complex history of
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