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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Judean Desert is a unique time capsule for archeologists: thanks to the arid conditions that prevail there, its caves preserve ancient artifacts
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Egyptologists have recovered more than 18,000 inscribed sherds in ancient Athribis—the remains of vessels and jars that served as writing material some 2,000
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This important discovery sheds much light on cacao cultivation, religion, power in the region. For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in recent research. It reveals new radiocarbon dates
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Horses have been intrinsically entwined with human history for the past five millennia, acting as an early means of rapid transport and playing
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists examined the remains of a previously submerged fisher-hunter-gatherer camp on the shores of the Sea of Galilee from around
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards human-like traits is often
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the "Gold Mask of Agamemnon", but
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - King Amenhotep III, also known as Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During his reign, Egypt successfully managed to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists excavating in Aswan, Egypt has unearthed 20 mummies in ancient burial chambers. According to Ahram Online, "The first part
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In Japan there are several interesting megalithic tombs that have long interested scientists. Known as Kofun ("ancient grave"), the structures were "constructed between
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Bronze Age Maikop kurgan is one of the most richly furnished prehistoric burial mounds in the northern Caucasus. Excavations conducted in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique 4,000-year-old board game made of stone has been unearthed by archaeologists in Oman. Marked with ‘playing fields and cup holes’ the discovery
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It's a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon: would you rather be running after tasteless wild berries, or curled up on your couch with
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered the first insights
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity's earliest agricultural
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many ancient civilizations have used alcohol, beer, and hallucinogens. The world's oldest paycheck reveals ancient Sumerian workers were paid in beer, and this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant are crisscrossed by innumerable pathways. Across large areas of northwest Arabia, many of these
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The evolution of writing is a complex issue, but the Vai script, a rare manuscript may offer clues into this important question scientists
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Medieval warhorses are often depicted as massive and powerful beasts, but in reality many were no more than pony-sized by modern standards, a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new extinct reptile species has shed light on how our earliest ancestors became top predators by modifying their teeth in response to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It turns out San Francisco has been a destination for lovers of imported delicacies since its earliest Gold Rush days. According to results
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Very few proteins in the body have a change that makes them unique compared to the corresponding proteins in Neanderthals and apes. Researchers
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilization collapse. There is no dispute that a series of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority has exposed the remains of 2,700-year-old intestinal worm eggs below the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An Iron Age settlement dating from around 2,250 years ago has been discovered on the site of a new roundabout being built near
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sediments in which archaeological finds are embedded have long been regarded by most archaeologists as unimportant by-products of excavations. However, in recent years
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - All the royal mummies found in the 19th and 20th centuries have long since been opened for study. With one exception: egyptologists have
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