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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Beer has been a popular beverage for thousands of years and will undoubtedly continue to be enjoyed in the future. Ecuadoran bioengineer Javier
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from Western University have verified the authenticity of a South American tsantsa (shrunken head) as human remains, an important step in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A joint Polish- Italian archaeological mission excavating at the temple of King Nyuserre in the Abu Gorab necropolis north of Abusir made an important
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A long-standing Canadian mystery may have finally been solved. A combination of archaeological and geological studies shed new light on when the first
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This beautiful find was recovered and identified by Israel Antiquities Authority numismatics expert Lior Sandberg during a maritime survey. Image credit: Israel Antiquities
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A comprehensive scientific study combining high-quality aerial photography, a topographic survey, laser scanning, and geophysical survey have resulted in the discovery of an
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dutch fishermen onboard the shrimp cutter Wieringer 22 were astonished, to say the least, when they fished up a strange wooden statue. The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have begun a new project to reveal the secrets of one of Britain’s most powerful Anglo-Saxon queens and the monastery which she
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of Cambridge is supporting a claim for the return to Nigeria of 116 objects currently held in the University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) collections that were
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Bantu Expansion transformed sub-Saharan Africa's linguistic, economic, and cultural composition. Today, more than 240 million people speak one of the more than
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A recent study by scientists from the University of Texas at Austin finds that a site in New Mexico offers some of the
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The discovery of an exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer's
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Something happened around 5,000 years ago that allowed one strain of herpes to overtake all others, possibly an increase in transmissions, which could
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered an approximately 2,000-year-old Mayan pot in a cave in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The National Institute of Anthropology
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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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DNA
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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