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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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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The 15th-century French composer and singer Josquin des Prez, or "Josquin," as he is commonly known, achieved the Renaissance equivalent of rock star
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The sword was found in three pieces by two metal detector enthusiasts, independent of each other, in the Jåttå/Gausel area in Stavanger, already
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed an 8,000-year-old Yarmukian 'Mother Goddess' figurine at Sha’ar HaGolan in Israel. The 20-centimeter figurine was discovered broken in two pieces
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A tiny, prehistoric obsidian flake originating from a 45,000-year-old tool was discovered in Armenia and published by Ellery Frahm, an archaeological scientist in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists has unearthed bones of reindeer and woolly mammoth in the limestone cave hidden beneath Pembroke Castle. Wogan Cavern is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - What started three years ago as an ordinary study of some ancient ruins located around the San Pedro hermitage, known variously as El
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils discovered in Scotland represent some of the world's oldest salamanders, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The research
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Altamura Man lived more than 130,000 years ago when ice sheets were expanding from Antarctica and Greenland. His fossilized skeleton, imprisoned in
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