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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique 4,000-year-old board game made of stone has been unearthed by archaeologists in Oman. Marked with ‘playing fields and cup holes’ the discovery
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It's a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon: would you rather be running after tasteless wild berries, or curled up on your couch with
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As we discussed in part 1, everything the man witnessed that morning indicated the mysterious creatures were no ordinary human beings. Something was
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered the first insights
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity's earliest agricultural
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many ancient civilizations have used alcohol, beer, and hallucinogens. The world's oldest paycheck reveals ancient Sumerian workers were paid in beer, and this
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Stories of encounters with mysterious little beings are always fascinating, especially when these reports come from credible witnesses, like the one we will
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant are crisscrossed by innumerable pathways. Across large areas of northwest Arabia, many of these
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Graeco-Roman tradition, the Echidna is a gigantic half-woman and half-snake hybrid creature. As a tall, charming, and beautiful woman from the waist
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Northern Sweden, there are many fascinating and mysterious ancient sites. Unfortunately, several of these historical sites have not been properly investigated because they
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Xunantunich, a major ceremonial center of the Maya Civilization, is an ancient Maya archaeological site atop a ridge above the Mopan River, about
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The evolution of writing is a complex issue, but the Vai script, a rare manuscript may offer clues into this important question scientists
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Medieval warhorses are often depicted as massive and powerful beasts, but in reality many were no more than pony-sized by modern standards, a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new extinct reptile species has shed light on how our earliest ancestors became top predators by modifying their teeth in response to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It turns out San Francisco has been a destination for lovers of imported delicacies since its earliest Gold Rush days. According to results
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Very few proteins in the body have a change that makes them unique compared to the corresponding proteins in Neanderthals and apes. Researchers
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most interesting places in Europe is Transylvania, a region where strange and unexplained events have been happening for as long
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilization collapse. There is no dispute that a series of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority has exposed the remains of 2,700-year-old intestinal worm eggs below the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An Iron Age settlement dating from around 2,250 years ago has been discovered on the site of a new roundabout being built near
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sediments in which archaeological finds are embedded have long been regarded by most archaeologists as unimportant by-products of excavations. However, in recent years
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - All the royal mummies found in the 19th and 20th centuries have long since been opened for study. With one exception: egyptologists have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the past century, Southwestern archaeologists have debated what happened to the Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico after AD 1150, a group
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Human DNA can be extracted from the 'cement' head lice used to glue their eggs to hairs thousands of years ago, scientists have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This weekend, Christmas was celebrated worldwide and here in Israel, with decorated fir trees, colorful lights, and of course with hats and figures
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists diving off the coast of Caesarea, Israel have recovered a magnificent treasure from two ancient shipwrecks. The treasure consists of hundreds
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New evidence from the bottom of a lake in the remote North Atlantic Faroe Islands indicates that an unknown band of humans settled
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