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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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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 - In Japan, the suppression of Christianity increased from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century, and many
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Depictions of animals are a common subject for the world’s oldest dated rock art, including lions in France’s Chauvet Cave and wild bovids in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An inscribed animal dated to the seventh century proves that Germanic runes were the oldest script ever used by the ancient Slavs, according
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century painting known as "Salvator Mundi" (Savior of the World) was found hidden in an
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have presented a new, interesting interpretation of England’s famous Domesday Book. The “Domesday Book” is closely related to William The Conqueror (or “William the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While studying ancient paintings within Buddhist temples in northwestern China’s Mogao Caves, researchers detected ‘an ancient mistake’ in the artwork. The Mogao Grottoes, near
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution Isaac Newton was
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Cambridge University Library has announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, worth many millions of pounds are missing, believed to have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance. His inventions, paintings, and sculptures are today admired
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This remarkable painting comes from the second century when Egypt was a Roman province, hence the portraits are more lifelike and less hieroglyphic-like
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In medieval times, it was very expensive to make parchments, so leaves were regularly scraped or erased and re-used over and over again.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wondered what Europe smells like? Most likely it’s not something we think about on daily basis, but a group of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Previously uncounted copies of Isaac Newton's groundbreaking science book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known as the 'Principia' have been found by a Caltech
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - On December 26, 1665, the Codex Cospi (or Codex Bologna) was given as a Christmas gift to the Italian nobleman Ferdinando Cospi (1606
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The composition of red and black inks in ancient Egyptian papyri from circa 100-200 AD, has been discovered by a team of researchers
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It may be nothing than just pure coincidence, because pandemics have been around as long as humans, but it’s interesting to note a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study combines newly available analyses and methods from linguistics and genetics to tackle a long-standing topic in archaeological research, confirming the demographic
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians prepared thoroughly for the afterlife and they were convinced that it was possible to be in the company of the gods,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent research suggests that most languages that have ever existed are no longer spoken. Dozens of these dead languages are also considered to be lost,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The loss of tropical rainforests and grasslands that once dominated Southeast Asia caused the extinction of many of the region's megafauna, and probably
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team led by Ana Isabel Ortega Martínez, an archaeologist at the CENIEH (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana), has recently
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient paintings showing eight Buddhist saints possibly dating back to over 1,300 years ago have been discovered on temple columns blackened by soot.
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