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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How should we relate to the traditional historiography on ancient Sicily? The prevailing view has been that the indigenous population had neither territory,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have been excavating the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in modern-day Guatemala, since the 1950s—and thanks to those many decades
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Kali (in Sanskrit, "black") is, in Hindu beliefs, the goddess of death, destruction, fear, and horror who destroys ignorance, brings world order, liberates, and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have unearthed several interesting artifacts that were used in religious rituals for goddess Hathor. The ancient tools were discovered
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you were a Viking warrior, you didn't paint your shield with just any color. Picking the right color was not a matter
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international group of scientists has studied a genome sequence of a unique individual known as the Segorbe giant and his DNA reveals
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Etruscan civilization, which flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy, has intrigued scholars for millennia. With remarkable metallurgical skills and a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Max Planck
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Already in the Bronze Age, pastoralists covered long distances across the Eurasian steppes - presumably thanks to their consumption of milk. The Yamnaya,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting and well-documented encounters with ancient giants in North America, and today it is time to present one such case.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have studied how ancient people responded to catastrophic natural events and discovered ancient Maya people used volcanic ash to build some of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient rulers had one thing in common with political leaders today - they were eager to brand themselves. Archaeologists have discovered Maya rulers
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3,600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant. Located on high
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Music is an intrinsic expression of cultural diversity and a fundamental element of identity, ritual symbolism, and daily social interaction. The study of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - During Rodrigo Díaz's lifetime, many powerful lords, commanders, and chiefs wielded influence in Spain and beyond. He was not singular in his role,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team describes ancient hand and footprints made deliberately which they argue represent art. Hand shapes are commonly found in prehistoric caves, usually,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient DNA extracted from human bones has rewritten early Japanese history by underlining that modern day populations in Japan have a tripartite genetic
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This summer, a tomb embedded in the rock by the main entrance to the San Tirso and San Bernabé Hermitage situated in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research by archaeologists has described rare shell artifacts discovered at Calperum Station and Murrawong (Glen Lossie) on the Murray River in South
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals, our closest relatives, became extinct between 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Since the discovery of the first Neanderthal fossil 165 years ago,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The monumental reliefs at the Camel Site in northern Arabia are unique: three rock spurs are decorated with naturalistic, life-sized carvings of camels
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Conny Waters- AncientPages.com - An international group of scientists has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - On the left side of the grave, the male skeleton lays with one arm outstretched, holding the abdomen of the female skeleton by
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Today, more than 10 percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. While cousin-marriages are common practice in some societies,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During the middle of the sixth century CE a dramatic transformation began in how the people of western Europe buried their dead. The
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