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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - At present, more than 80% of the ocean remains unexplored. In recent years, underwater archaeologists have discovered magnificent, ancient ruins and startling prehistoric
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Anyone who is interested in underwater exploration will be thrilled to see the images of Shackleton's lost ship Endurance that has been discovered
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Something very strange and unexplained happened with European DNA about 5,000 years ago. For reasons totally unknown, the genetic markers of this first
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Location, location, location—it's the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it's been widely assumed that being close to resources drives
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Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - Examining the spines of Neanderthals, an extinct human relative, may explain back-related ailments experienced by humans today, a team of anthropologists has concluded in
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Civilizations
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the spring of 1900, a group of Greek sponge divers, blown off course by a storm in the Aegean, stumbled upon the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Knowledge about the Picts is still limited and every discovery related to these people shed new light on the ancient history of Scotland.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a unique 9,00-year-old shrine in the Jordan Desert. According to scientists the shrine "sheds an entirely new light on the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How did the first modern humans reach the European continent? A new study shows that the first Homo sapiens could not have reached Europe over
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A new species of one of the most recognizable types of dinosaur is the oldest stegosaur ever found in Asia, and one
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Unguja Ukuu is a small settlement on Unguja island (Zanzibar Island), in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It is an archaeological site that has yielded abundant artifacts and evidence of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Cut into several boulders located within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, in western Nevada, the petroglyphs date to at least 10,500 years ago and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A well-preserved Palaeolithic site in northern China reveals a new and previously unidentified set of cultural innovations. When did populations of Homo sapiens
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Remains of a large administrative facility from the First Intermediate Period were uncovered during an excavation carried out by an Austrian-Egyptian mission led
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery was made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Nowhere else are so many Neolithic pile dwellings known as around the Alps. However, how this particular construction boom got its start is
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are attempting to find out why so many 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages were suddenly abandoned. While scholars have proposed socio-ecological
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists led by the UAB complete the first topography of the interior of the only existing Roman emerald mines, located in Egypt. Their work
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The riddle to solve the purpose of Stonehenge continues. It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the first time ever archaeologists have discovered water wells dating back to the Pharaonic times. The discovery was made by scientists who
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has discovered the existence of a long-forgotten continent they have dubbed Balkanatolia, which today covers the present-day Balkans
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Cave 53, in the Qumran region delivers new surprises. A whole pottery vessel from the Early Bronze Age, one of the few ever
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Venus Of Willendorf figurine has intrigued scientists for many years. Carved some 30,000 years ago, the figurine, dated to the Upper
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historical buildings and relics dating back to the Middle Iron Age through to the Roman period have been unearthed by archaeologists working on
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Europe, the Knights Templar were the first known warrior monks, active during the Crusades. However, warrior monks did not only exist in Europe.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans:
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A young woman walks Trondheim's streets 800 years ago, carrying a secret in her body. It's 150 years before the plague—the Black Death—but
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, commonly referred to as King Tut, had several cosmic jewels placed in his tomb when he died, being only
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a
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