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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of international researchers led by the University of Arizona reported last year that they had uncovered the largest and oldest Maya
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers, led by Professor Lee Berger from Wits University, has revealed the first partial skull of a Homo naledi
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The theory that there was once a second sphinx is not new, but despite many claims, no one has been able to provide
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating at the Saqqara necropolis a team of archaeologists uncovered the tomb of Ptah-M-Wia, head of the treasury during the reign of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research has analyzed a rare collection of non-returning boomerangs from Kinipapa (Cooper Creek), near Innamincka in South Australia's far northeast. The four
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stunning new reconstructions have revealed how Scotland's largest known Pictish fort may have looked over one thousand years ago. Three-dimensional images of Burghead
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Four rare Late Neolithic chalk plaques from the Stonehenge region have been subjected to non-invasive Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technology in a new
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The burial of legendary queen Emma of Normandy has been discovered in Winchester Castle, United Kingdom. "Emma of Normandy is one of the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers, led by University of Winnipeg palaeoanthropologist Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, has announced the naming of a new species of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Thirty years ago, archeologists excavated the tomb of an elite 40-50-year-old man from the Sicán culture of Peru, a society that predated the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many Dutch ships passed the West Australian coast while enroute to Southeast Asia in the 1600s—and the national heritage listed shipwreck, Batavia, has revealed
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While some current scientific theories point to ancient Chaco Canyon, a distinctive archaeological site in the American southwest, as simply a prehistoric ceremonial
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A man's claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull has been confirmed using DNA extracted from Sitting Bull's
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As part of the Silk Road and located at the geographical intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare English illuminated medieval prayer roll, believed to be among only a few dozen still in existence worldwide, has been analyzed in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Magnificent ancient treasures discovered by local fishermen in Indonesia‘s Musi River may be the beginning of a great archaeological and historical story. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Peter Turchin from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues set out to test competing theories about what
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The Vikings got there centuries before, although exactly when has remained unclear. Here,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Now, a new study has brought us closer to understanding some of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 900 years ago a crusader knight who was present in the Holy Land lost a magnificent sword. Today, we can admire this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Unlike many other ancient civilizations, people in believed something unpleasant was awaiting the deceased on the other site. Our knowledge about the Mesopotamian
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The missing link isn't a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It's a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by two researchers in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from Estonia and Italy developed an innovative method by combining neural networks and statistics. Using this newly developed method, they refined the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A Polish archaeologist has made the find of a lifetime discovering a startling 3,000-year-old gold bowl decorated with a sun motif. The ancient
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Traditional assumptions have often seen tropical rainforests as a barrier to early Homo sapiens. However, growing proof shows that humans adapted to and lived
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The necklace, nametag, earrings or uniform you chose to put on this morning might say more than you realize about your social status,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Roman Empire was ruled by 175 men, from Augustus (63 BCE-19 CE) to Constantine XI (1405-53), including the Eastern or Byzantine Empire
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An impressive hoard of silver coins dating to the Hasmonean period (126 BCE) was unearthed several years ago during archaeological excavations conducted by the
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