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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A young woman walks Trondheim's streets 800 years ago, carrying a secret in her body. It's 150 years before the plague—the Black Death—but

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com  - A site, Horvat Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah, which is linked to one of the most famous biblical stories - the story

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study examining the chemical makeup of iron artifacts from the Viking age aims to uncover new insights into where they came

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-held consensus that the more populated and "civilized" a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Siberian Valley of the Kings, on the Southern Siberian Steppe of the Russian Federation, is of great significance to archaeologists, who have

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study has confirmed saltwater drowning as the cause of death for a Neolithic man whose remains were found in a mass

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study reveals how archeologists can determine when a pot was used by Romans as a portable toilet, known as a chamber

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings were not a uniform phenomenon in ancient Scandinavia. They were part of a complex system of plunder economy that existed in Europe

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A once-in-a-lifetime archival discovery reveals that a rare map hiding behind a false identity in Washington D.C. was the work of William Clark,

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After many years of searching Captain James Cook's famous vessel the HMB Endeavour may now have been found off the coast of the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a 1.5 million-year-old human vertebra in Israel's Jordan Valley. According to a new study, ancient human migration from Africa to

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The rapid decline of the Hopewell culture about 1,500 years ago might be explained by falling debris from a near-Earth comet that created