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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Human DNA can be extracted from the 'cement' head lice used to glue their eggs to hairs thousands of years ago, scientists have

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Underwater archaeologists diving off the coast of Caesarea, Israel have recovered a magnificent treasure from two ancient shipwrecks. The treasure consists of hundreds

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Analysis of ancient DNA from one of the best-preserved Neolithic tombs in Britain has revealed that most of the people buried there were from

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What routes did Homo sapiens take on his way from Africa to Europe and Asia in the previous millennia? The climatic conditions changed,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sea level changes caused the decline of one of the longest pre-Columbian coastal societies of the Americas 2,000 years ago, known as Sambaqui.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A German-Egyptian mission at Al-Sheikh Hamad archaeological site in Tel Atribis in Sohag has unearthed a collection of 13,000 ostraca (clay vessel fragments) which

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first genome-wide ancient human DNA data from Sudan reveals new insights into the ancestry and social organization of people who lived more than

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Despite its prior status as a luxury commodity, silver became widely used for coinage in the Roman world from the 7th century BCE

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hunter-gathers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archeologists from Leiden University in collaboration

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ten thousand years ago, just after the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave. They

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rising as high as 20 feet, ancient stone monoliths in southern Ethiopia are 1,000 years older than scientists previously thought, according to a

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists from the University of Zurich examined a unique leather scale armor from the grave of a horseman in northwest China. The style and

AncientPages.com - On May 7, 1697, the fatal fire broke out in Tre Kronor "Three Crowns") castle located in Stockholm, Sweden, on the site where Stockholm Palace is today.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - At Gjellestad in Norway, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) have found a 60-meter longhouse. There is no longer