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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It happens every now and then that Viking swords are discovered but this finding is unique! As scientists ask - "What are the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Edinburgh have discovered more than 100 Iron Age settlements in south-west Scotland that date from the time of Roman occupation. The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Maize has always been the most important food crop in the Maya. According to the ancient creation myth of the Maya people, the gods
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using the latest scientific methods, researchers want to solve a great mystery of human evolution: Why are we the only humans left? Two
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A cave known as Cueva de Ardales or the so-called Trinidad Grund and located in southern Spain was used by ancient humans as
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AncientPages.com - Ancient historians loved to write about warfare and famous battles. While these millennia-old stories still feed modern imaginations – Homer’s “Iliad” provides the plot for the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first known Roman military amphitheater has been discovered by archaeologists excavating at the base of the Legio VI Ferrata Roman Legion near
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An important discovery has been made by archaeologists working at the Chavín de Huántar archaeological site in Peru. Scientists report the discovery of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It has happened in the past that archaeological discoveries have confirmed events described in Norse Sagas. We know for example that Norse Sagas
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Once again, archaeologists report they have discovered a new trove consisting of magnificent ancient Egyptian artifacts. The ancient objects were unearthed at the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists has uncovered a 3,400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city once located on the Tigris River. The settlement emerged
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The king wore the Uraeus on a wreath or on his crown during the Middle Kingdom. It symbolized the ruler's legitimacy and was
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - In the second episode of the TV show Lego Masters, contestants were asked to build a castle — then watch it be destroyed by a bowling ball.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have finished the first excavations of the magnificent Gjellestad Viking ship burial in Norway and scientists have presented some of the most
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While excavating on a construction site of what will become an industrial park near Merida, on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula archaeologists have uncovered the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Nestled in the picturesque Northumberland countryside, Vindolanda with its fort and settlement is a treasure trove of everyday life during the Roman occupation
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists are curious and want to open an 830-million-year-old rock crystal that contains ancient microorganisms that may still be alive. To some, this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the city of Berenice Troglodytica, an ancient seaport of Egypt on the western shore of the Red Sea, have found
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hadrian's Wall, also known as Picts' Wall, Vallum Hadriani (in Latin), or simply the Roman Wall, is one of the most impressive Roman
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first successfully sequenced human genome from an individual who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - More than 20 years ago, Dr. Heiko Prümers from the German Archaeological Institute and Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt from the University of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent's earliest humans consumed the eggs of a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Oral hygiene was important to the Maya who had remarkable dental skills. Scientists have discovered that the ancient Maya came with a special
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AncientPages.com - Domestic violence was endemic in the Roman world. Rome was a slave-owning, patriarchal, militarized culture in which violence (potential and actual) signaled power and control. Tragically,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Uncovering the past of historically under-represented communities sometimes means having to do a little digging, through newspapers, archives and even the ground. A
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Human Beginnings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - With the help of the world's most powerful supercomputer and new artificial intelligence techniques, an international team of researchers has theorized how
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered that humans domesticated cattle around 10,000 years ago in the Central Nile region in today's Sudan. The recent study conducted by
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During an archaeological survey of Castilly Henge, near Bodmin scientists uncovered a previously unknown stone circle inside a Cornwall scheduled monument. The remarkable and
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to
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