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David Tee - AncientPages.com - The area deemed today as Iran has had a long history. The Medes first ruled the nation in the 9th century BC. However, the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in eastern North Carolina were surprised when they came across an ancient tavern along with several mysterious tools that were buried beneath
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some 9,000 years ago, residents of Çatalhöyük (on modern Turkey,) one of the world's first large farming communities experienced overcrowding, infectious diseases, violence
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African Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting, and little-known stories told by African tribes. Africa was once home to several powerful civilizations, but sadly today, the
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Rome, Italy have unearthed a magnificent 2,000-year-old marble head of God Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, the ancient god of wine
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stonehenge in England is world famous and a major tourist attraction. It is widely believed that the stone circle was constructed in the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Since the beginning of time, humans have looked at the sky wondering if someone from above was keeping a watching eye on us.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Egyptian ministries of antiquities and foreign affairs have called on Christie's auction house and UNESCO to stop the sale of a quartzite head
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Maine have reason to feel excited. They have just excavated what is believed to be the oldest dugout canoe ever found
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - During the Iron Age around 300 AD something extraordinary was initiated in Levänluhta area in Isokyrö, SW Finland. People were buried in a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Adelasius Ebalchus lived in what is now northern Switzerland some 1,300 years ago, centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Who was
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we talked about the ancient history of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. We discussed what this ancient
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An underground city partly submerged underwater and estimated to be around 5,000 years old was discovered by municipality crews trying to determine the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - What were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and what did they look like? Did they really exist and for what purpose were they
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Long before farming appeared, humans were cooking, roasting and eating plant roots and this habit is 120,000 years old, according a new study.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,300-year-old tablet with the ancient Greek alphabet was accidentally discovered inside the garden wall of a school in Turkey's southwestern Mugla province
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study suggests that northern and central Asia’s wetter climates may have allowed Homo sapiens to expand across the deserts of Central Asia by 50-30,000
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series, we discussed ancient historical mass disappearances that have long puzzled historians. We will continue and explore more
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The causes of disappearance of the Neanderthals, the only human population living in Europe before the arrival of Homo sapiens, have been debated for
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many disappearances have been recorded throughout history. Most intriguing are cases of mass disappearances of people organized in armies of soldiers who disappeared
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Nauka w Polsce reports that one of Egypt’s oldest churches dating back to the 4th century was found hidden behind ancient basilica wall
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - KU Leuven researchers have reconstructed two lifelike faces – one of a Roman-era man (early third century CE) and one of a Middle-Byzantine woman
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AncientPages.com - Two unique burials of the Odinov culture (early Bronze) were unearthed last year at the Ust-Tartas site in Novosibirsk region. Inside one of them researches found
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Patara Lighthouse will be reconstructed on its original stones. Lighthouse - built by the Roman Emperor Nero between A.D. 64 and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The lost medieval home of the Lords of the Isles has been reconstructed virtually by experts at the University of St Andrews. Major archaeological
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we discussed how a man accidentally discovered a very peculiar glove in the desert, but this was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many questions remain about Neanderthals, extinct human species, which lived at the same time as early modern humans. In which areas did they
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of geneticists led by Maciej Chyleński of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland made attempts to study the genetic material
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered 3,500-year-old Hittite hieroglyphs inside a barn located in Turkey's historical Cappadocia region, which is expected to shed light on an
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