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AncientPages.com - Columbia librarians have digitized an important anatomical flap book, which is an early attempt to present the three dimensionality of the human body in the two dimensional
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AncientPages.com - The Meroitic Empire is one of the civilizations of ancient Africa. It was reported by the Greek historian Herodotus as a rival to Greek (Ptolemaic) Egypt. The
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AncientPages.com - Longvek was the capital city in ancient Cambodia, for almost 200 years following the sack of Angkor by the Siamese in 1431. The city's records tell
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have revealed the best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain, which provides an extraordinary insight into domestic life 3,000 years ago. Dated to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study of the ancient burial practices from the Central Apulian region in pre-Roman Italy sheds light on economic and social mobility, military
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Shamash was the Sun god in the mythology of the ancient Near East. He was associated with truth, justice, and healing and was one of the
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AncientPages.com - Evidence of a civilization that existed more than 1,300 years ago was unearthed in less than 20 centimeters of soil Monday at Philippi Estate Park in Sarasota.
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AncientPages.com - Many fascinating artifacts have already been discovered during Yenikapi excavations, which tell story of a 8,500-year-old city. Among these findings, which are dated to the Neolithic Age,
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AncientPages.com - Tom Garrison was four hours away from camp — headed into the city down a bumpy jungle road to get treated for poisonwood exposure — when he got
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AncientPages.com - Archaeological evidence shows that despite hygienic innovations introduced by the Romans, intestinal parasites such as whipworm, roundworm and Entamoeba histolytica dysentery did not decrease as expected in
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AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists working with paleopathologist Albert Zink and microbiologist Frank Maixner from the European Academy (EURAC) in Bozen/Bolzano have now identified the presence of Helicobacter
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Myths & Legends
AncientPages.com - Scientists once again try to restore the chronology of the Homeric epics Iliad and Odyssey. They compare the natural phenomena the epic describes with astronomically ascertained ones,
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AncientPages.com - The remains of a 3,400-year-old citadel the citadel that once served the needs of mariners, who often visited the ancient port city, was recently uncovered in Nahariya,
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AncientPages.com - An international study based on DNA from Anatolian remains and coordinated from Stockholm shows importance of the role Anatolia played, when farming spread throughout Europe some 8000
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AncientPages.com - Researchers have identified fossilized shell pieces of an aquatic turtle and the fossil remains of a nearly five feet long tortoise of the genus Chelonoidis, found near Quebrada
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists digging in Newhaven, a historic fishing village in Scotland, discovered poorly preserved human bones dated to the sixteenth or seventeenth century. The team was looking for
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AncientPages.com - An ancient road built using the polygonal technique has been accidentally discovered during drainage works conducted at an archaeological site in the southern province of Mersin’s historical Tarsus
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found new evidence that suggests date of origin of Tel Al-Dafna site, located at the Al-Qantara West area in Ismailiya, 11 kilometres west of the
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AncientPages.com - The Asclepieion also known as the Asclepius sanctuary is located at the southern slope of Acropolis but it was unknown until a few years ago. Asclepius was the god of medicine and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Beneath the streets of Paris, there is a huge underground labyrinth with dark galleries and narrow passages. It’s a gruesome place of great
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AncientPages.com - Ivan IV “the Terrible” of Russia (1530-1584) was a cruel tyrant, who never knew the meaning of moderation; he drank too much, laughed too loudly and hated
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AncientPages.com - A black granite statue of King Amenhotep III was found by chance in a residential house in Al-Nakhl village in Edfu, Aswan. In collaboration with Edfu police,
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AncientPages.com - It wasn't any easy task to restore the seventh-century Baekje-era stone pagoda at the UNESCO-registered Mireuksa Temple site in Iksan, North Jeolla Province. The 1,300-year-old pagoda is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A few years back, Rosh Ha‘ayin unveiled some remarkable historical treasures. Photo credit: Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority, and Griffin Higher Photography. An imposing
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AncientPages.com - An impressive 2,700 year old farmhouse and a 1,500 year old church with colorful mosaics and inscriptions in it were uncovered in the excavations in Rosh Ha-Ayin, the
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AncientPages.com - The wreck of an ancient ship has been discovered off the coast of Salento. It is believed the wreck dates back to either the 12th or 13th century. The
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AncientPages.com - A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast have sequenced the genomes of an early farmer woman, who lived near Belfast
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Ancient Symbols
AncientPages.com - An impressive marble statue of a ram, an ancient Christian symbol for Jesus, was discovered on Christmas Eve during the excavation of a Byzantine-period church in Caesarea, the
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AncientPages.com - Mosaics were a common feature of private homes and public buildings across the Roman empire. They were beautiful works of art depicting food, tools they used, clothes,
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