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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists excavating in the village of Overstone near Northampton, UK, has unearthed an unusual 4,000-year-old stone building. The purpose of
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The length of a specific generation can tell us a lot about the biology and social organization of humans. Now, researchers at Indiana
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Archaeoastronomy
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most ancient civilizations studied celestial objects and were skilled astronomers. Countless archaeological examples have provided evidence ancient people were often more advanced than
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Kadikalesi Castle is situated on a low mound, in the town of Sogucak, in the province of Aydin in Turkey. The mound, on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The beautiful Greek port city Thessaloniki was an important metropolis during the Roman period and the second largest and wealthiest city of the
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Archaeoastronomy
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The last time comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was spotted was during the Upper Paleolithic period. Our distant relatives, the Neanderthals, watched
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AncientPages.com - Remarkably similar carvings and simple cross sculptures mark special sites or places once sacred, spanning a zone stretching from the Irish and Scottish coasts to Iceland.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Analysis of stone tools attributed to the Ahmarian, the first Upper Paleolithic culture of the Near East (dated approximately 40,000 to 45,000 years
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the mysteries scientists have long tried to solve is why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you had the grooming habits of a Neanderthal, perhaps it's a good thing your nose wasn't as sensitive to urine and sweat
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - More than 500 years ago in the midwestern Guatemalan highlands, Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new major study captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. This look
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A research team has solved the mystery of a gold-plated pendant found in a Medieval refuse pit in the Old City section of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mysterious ancient dots and stripes on European cave paintings have puzzled scientists for decades. It has been suggested these markings made by Ice
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Orangutans, mice, and horses are covered with it, but humans aren't. Why we have significantly less body hair than most other mammals has
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a curious 2,000-year-old tumulus in Siberia. The find was made when the land was prepared for a new cemetery called
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Glacial archaeologists from Secrets of the Ice continue to uncover more artifacts hidden under the ice. The team found this rare three-bladed arrowhead
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The skeleton of a 1500-year-old Byzantine monk, chained in iron rings, was uncovered in a recent excavation near Jerusalem in 2017. No doubt,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Everything must have a beginning somewhere at some point in time. It does not matter in which country we live today because, according
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After four months of hard work, the restoration process of this ancient fountain is complete, and it will provide fresh water once again
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The sarcophagus belonged to an ancient Egyptian priest of Heracleopolis city, Ankh In Maat, and dates from the Late Period (664-332 BC). Known
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time ever, scientists have found convincing evidence Jews fled to the Negev after a failed revolt 2,200 years ago. Muraba‘at
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team from CEMEX unexpectedly uncovered the remains of a rare Elizabethan-era ship while dredging for aggregates at a quarry on the Dungeness
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the Bible, the pool of Silam is where Jesus performed miracles and cured a blind man. Due to its enormous significance, the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists using radar have once again uncovered amazing ancient structures that cannot be easily detected from the ground. With the help of LIDAR
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, at the Woranso-Mille paleontological site in northern Ethiopia, scientists discovered a 3.8 million-year-old skull belonging to a primitive hominin known
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Ani was once the capital of the Kingdom of Armenia. It was a powerful and flourishing city where traders
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient temple of Khnum at Esna in Luxor, Egypt, continues to reveal its secrets. Scientists have been busy restoring the Esna Temple for some
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This magnificent artwork was discovered in a palace at Amarna, ancient Egypt's capital, during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten (1347–1332 B.C). The ancient
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