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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An archaeological study has determined that cowrie-shell artifacts found throughout the Mariana Islands were lures used for hunting octopuses and that the devices,
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPage.com - Four billion years ago, the Earth looked very different than it does today, devoid of life and covered by a vast ocean.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During pre-quarrying investigations at Lochinver Quarry to the southwest of the town Elgin, on the south coast of the Moray Firth roughly midway
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While conducting a routine measurement in the Trave river, the Kiel-Holtenau Waterways and Shipping Authority (Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt/WSA) discovered a ship at a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a 1,000-year-old sword belonging to a knight has been described as extraordinary by archaeologists. Dating back to the reign of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once upon a time, there was an important commercial center on Gotland, the island located in the Baltic Sea, approximately 90 kilometers east
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken identity in the archaeological record has conspired
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Prehistoric people in Europe were consuming milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –The Loch Ness Monster is “plausible,” a British university has declared, after finding that some plesiosaurs may have lived in freshwater. "Nessie proponents
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare, perfectly preserved bronze coin depicting the goddess of the Moon, minted 1,850 years ago under Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius in Alexandria,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Human footprints believed to date from the end of the last Ice Age have been discovered on the salt flats of the Air
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers link an eruption in the Aleutian Islands to Nile flood failures during Cleopatra’s reign. Cleopatra wouldn’t have seen the clouds of ash
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Although this 1700 years old luxury villa was excavated and examined both in 1856 and in the 1990s, it still has secrets to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The site of Tell Deir ‘Alla (“mound of the high monastery”), in the central Jordan Valley, was a settlement during the 13th century
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have previously confirmed modern humans and Neanderthals are closely related. In a past study, researchers discovered just 7% of our DNA is
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AncientPages.com - The city of Mayapán was the largest Mayan city from approximately 1200 to 1450 AD. It was an important political, economic and religious center, and the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University have uncovered the remains of a medieval ship and its cargo dating back to the 13th century off
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger could hardly believe their eyes when dress accessories typical of a Viking Age woman was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at Tavsanli Höyük, a mound recognized as the oldest known settlement in Kütahya, Turkey dating back 8,000 years, have unearthed a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Examination of a fossilized skull of a hunter-gatherer who lived about 100,000 years ago in Morroco shows the individual suffered from vertigo and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed a puzzling small figurine made in the image of an unknown individual. Researchers speculate people worshiped the small statuette as
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The sunken city of Heracleion off the shores of Alexandria, Egypt, was once part of the kingdom of Cleopatra. In recent years, underwater
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the debate about the social structure of the Central European Early Iron Age, the "Herrenhof" plays a considerable role as the presumed
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly in modern Iraqi Kurdistan was one of the major regional centers of the Parthian Empire, which extended over
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - According to legend, Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw from Nottingham, UK. Living in Sherwood Forest, he was famous for robbing the rich
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked by population declines,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Abusir near Saqqara, Egypt, have unearthed a unique tomb belonging to a military officer who commanded battalions made up of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is a small bronze artifact in the Cincinnati Art Museum's East Asian art collection in Ohio. It is not particularly remarkable at
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