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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bocca della Verità is an ancient stone mask that once served as a tool to determine if a person was lying or telling
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A team led by the Archaeology Institute at the University of the Highlands and Islands discovered what is believed to be a Bronze Age settlement at Tresness,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - British Museum presents a Viking Hoard dating from the time of the ‘Last Kingdom’, when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex were fighting for their survival against
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Trading routes have been discovered that pass through the old town of Vadnagar, mentioned often in the Puranas and even in the travelogue of the great Chinese
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have found evidence of Roman and medieval domestic life in Leicester. Archaeologists have completed the excavation of a series of
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Ancient Technology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was, without doubt, a man much ahead of his time. His excellent knowledge and scientific curiosity resulted in many incredible
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - While studying the ancient Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, archaeologists have discovered that the site was much larger and more complex than previously thought. Scientists found a
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The oldest surviving royal library in the world is that of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-around 630 BC). British Museum archaeologists discovered more than
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed remnants of the 12th-century castle keep wall and some remains of William Blackburns’s original prison design. The site lies immediately outside of the Roman
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Sobek was a 2,500-year old crocodile worshipped in life by the ancient Egyptians and mummified with all due reverence after death. The ancient Egyptians worshipped this
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A "frog-like" swastika made of nephrite has been discovered during archaeological excavations of the8,000-year-old Slatina Neolithic Settlement in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The swastika is 3 cm
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News
AncientPages.com - On December 7, 1941 at 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An ancient tomb has been discovered by a construction team working in a village of Datong Hui, in Datong County, in northwestern China's Qinghai Province, according to
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers deployed an underwater robot to take a closer look at a mass of tiles that sank into the seabed off Hatsushima island in Atami while being
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Beneath Nottingham Castle, there is a labyrinth of manmade sandstone caves and tunnels; all of them are related to countless secrets of Nottingham,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Although teaching is useful, it is not essential for cultural progress because people can use reasoning and reverse engineering of existing items to work out how to
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A small piece of the skull of the 8200-year-old “Viste Boy” has been sent to a Swedish laboratory for DNA analysis. Scientists hope to learn more about early
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A rare fossil of a dog-sized horned dinosaur has been identified by a scientist at Britain's University of Bath. The animal originated from eastern North America also known as
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Prehistoric rock paintings have been discovered near Kadiri of Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The rock, locally known as Rukalagundu in Kadiri mandal, was found to have
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Archaeology
Ancient Pages.com - A rich collection of silver jewellery from the IX-XIII century period, discovered during dig in Czermno in the Lublin province near the Ukrainian border, was presented at a closed
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - 13,000 year-old engraving uncovered in Spain may depict a hunter-gatherer campsite, according to researchers Marcos García-Diez from University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Manuel Vaquero from
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Impressive statues of ancient Mesopotamian rulers in the Louvre and the British Museum are famous. They bear witness to the wealth of Bronze Age Akkadian and Sumerian
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 2000-year-old room plastered with frescoes was accidentally discovered during routine roadworks to install a gas pipeline under a busy street in central Rome, Italy. The find was
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists accidentally discovered a traditional, ancient drum, an iconic artifact of the ancient Vietnamese people, dated to the Dong Son culture (700 B.C. – 100 AD). The Dong Son
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Eight well-preserved fossilized peach endocarps, or pits, dating back more than two and a half million years, have been found by scientists in southwest China. Despite their age,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago lived a woman in the Egyptian city of Asyut, on the west side of the Nile River Valley, 375 miles south of the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, the Valkyries were the choosers of the slain. The Valkyries were females riding on horses armed with helmets and spears. They
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A new study suggests that medieval people were exposed to hazardous heavy metals like lead, which was frequently used to glaze pottery. The poor, who could not
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers say that humans have been eating these beans for many millennia. The world's oldest domesticated fava beans have been discovered in sites in the central-southern Levant, now
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists say they have discovered tombs that are more than 1,000 years old in a pyramid-shaped cemetery in the midst of Peru's capital, Lima. "There are four
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Mesopotamian mythology, Gilgamesh is a demigod of superhuman strength who built the city walls of Uruk to defend his people from external
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The sarcophagus of Ankh-f-n-khonsu, a high priest of the ancient Egyptian god Amun Ra, has been unearthed in the west bank of Luxor,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A rare medieval painting depicting Judas' betrayal of Christ may have survived destruction at the hands of 16th century iconoclasts after being 'recycled' to list the Ten
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - London has been a multicultural city since its earliest days as a Roman city, according to new cutting-edge DNA research just published by the Museum of London. Scientists examined four skeletons, looking
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists say they have made a ground-breaking discovery on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. Experts have found what appears to be a small Roman fort on land
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