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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - To obtain the complete genetic information from Neanderthals, including the chromosomal DNA stored in the cell nucleus, it was long needed to find
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have tried to unravel the mystery of the giant Laos jars for some years, and now they report new, interesting discoveries. As
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the religion of the ancient Egyptians, Nefertum (in Greek: Iphtimis) is the personification of the refreshing and most beautiful smell, which, according
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A group of marauding cannibals from South America descended on islands of the Caribbean circa A.D. 800, terrorizing local populations, as was suggested
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations in the Egyptian Eastern Desert delivers proof of emerald mines in Roman Egypt at Wadi Sikait. For over 5000 years, emeralds have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Inhabitants of the sacred city of Caral were skilled architects, builders, and astronomers who studied celestial objects with great interest. Scientists have discovered
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Honey and other bee products were likely a sought-after foodstuff for much of human history, with direct chemical evidence for beeswax identified in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Now, an international team of researchers analyzed the genome of the skull and reports what is likely the oldest reconstructed modern human genome
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It has been assumed for some time the Caynton Caves were used by the Knights Templar, who held secret meetings in underground chambers
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Egypt continues to reveal some of its ancient secrets. Archaeologists have announced they have unearthed the Lost Golden City of Pharaoh Amenhotep III
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The 4,000-year-old piece of rock, called Saint-Bélec Slab has been re-examined and a new analysis shows it may be Europe's oldest 3D map.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international research team has sequenced the genomes of the oldest securely dated modern humans in Europe who lived around 45,000 years ago in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wanted to see what the famous, ancient Baalbek temples in Lebanon once looked like? Now you have the chance to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Britain has still not returned thirty Stone Age statues that were taken for restoration in 1990. According to Daifallah Hdeithat, the head of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using magnetic imaging, scientists have re-discovered ancient burial mounds in Iowa that were presumably lost to history. These Native American mounds were spotted
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of Aberdeen is to return a Benin bronze - a sculpture looted by British soldiers in Nigeria in one of the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Pirate Henry Every was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. Dubbed "The Arch Pirate" and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This is really great news to anyone who appreciates art and culture. The Louvre Museum has announced it has put its entire collection
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Scythians were a multitude of horse-warrior nomad cultures dwelling in the Eurasian steppe during the first millennium BCE. Because of the lack
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Valsgärde is a large Viking burial cemetery located not far from Uppsala in Sweden. Today it’s just a name few, even in Sweden
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Every society has some degree of wealth inequality—over history, in different cultures across continents. There always seem to be some people who have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, paleontologists found sixteen preserved trunks of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old in the area of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers led by the University of Adelaide have conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It takes only a few seconds to blow up a sacred temple that has withstood the test of time for thousands of years.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Salt has always been important and essential for life. The Classic Maya made salt by boiling brine in pots over fires in salt
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The faces of two of the most famous people of ancient Egypt have been reconstructed with the use of artificial intelligence. Queen Nefertiti
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Scythians have long been presented as highly mobile nomadic warriors. They lived across the Pontic steppe around 700-200 BC and posed a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A hieroglyph-adorned stairway leading up to a ceremonial platform has been unearthed during excavations at El Palmar, a small plaza compound in Mexico
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This large woven basket is still in perfect condition despite being 10,500-year-old! It is now the world’s oldest woven basket and it was
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