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Polish conservators have just ended the first season of restoration of the oldest villa in the ancient town of Stabiae. The city of Stabiae, next to Pompeii and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Apparently not all prehistoric massive stone boxes were used to keep human remains. Many of them were found in rooms with very small
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Previously unknown rock paintings, covering rock shelters in the Kondoa district in central Tanzania, have been discovered by Maciej Grzelczyck, archaeologist from A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
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AncientPages.com - Ministry of Antiquities launches fundraising campaign to buy a 4,500-year-old statue sold last year in London, and stops archaeological cooperation with the Northampton Museum for selling
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A marble block, considered the “water law” from 1,900 years ago, has been unearthed in the ancient city of Laodicea in the western province of Denizli and shows
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Glass-making furnaces dating back to the Roman Egypt period (30B.C.-395A.D.,) have been unearthed in Egypt’s Delta archaeological site of Tell Mutubis, the Antiquities Ministry stated Friday. The discovery
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Ongoing excavations at a site in the southern Peloponnese are offering rare insight into the ancient past of Laconia, about which very little physical evidence exists, the state-run
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AncientPages.com - At one time, the 7,000-year-old Misis (Mopsuestia), located in the southern province of Adana,was known as the immortal city and had up to 100,000 inhabitants; now
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The surviving recorded graffiti written on the walls of a cave in central Asia may tell a 500-year-old story of climate change. Scientists have found unique writings on
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AncientPages.com - When a farmer ploughing an Aberdeenshire field in 1978 uncovered a six-foot high Pictish stone carved with a distinctive figure carrying an axe, it quickly earned
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists identified three archaeological sites in Llagaden community, Magdalena, Cajamarca, Peru. They also found archaeological evidence in the form of pottery remains, which date back to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Keezhadi, a small hamlet in Sivaganga district, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a special place, where an important part
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Nalanda was one of the most praised intellectual circles of the ancient world. It was an active center of education located about 88
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Archaeologists of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) have discovered a one line inscription of as yet unknown Georgian writing, dating back 2700 years on the altar pedestal
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Farming started in Denmark and southern Sweden about 6,000 years ago, and early farmers were far more advanced than previously thought. Until now, most researchers believed that early
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German researchers have discovered signs of what may be the earliest known case of leukemia on a 7,000 year old skeleton. The victim of the disease was a
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A large wooden chamber tomb has been brought to light by archaeologists during excavations near the Opatowska Gate in Sandomierz, Poland. Around the tomb archaeologists discovered pottery sherds and traces
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A 3.2 wide, double-faced wall was revealed during the systematic excavation and extended clearance work in the framework of the five-year-old programme “Ancient Feneos”, conducted by the Ephorate
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During excavations at Mexico City’s Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site, archaeologists have discovered a massive tzompantli, or trophy skull rack of sacrificed human skulls. It was built between
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A series of murals recently discovered in Shimao Ruins indicate that the basic production process and rendering techniques used to make Chinese murals might
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AncientPages.com - The Natufians, who existed 15,000 – 11,500 years ago, represented a fascinating ancient culture. These people lived in there region known as the Levant (modern Palestine, Israel,
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed remains of pit houses and ditches that indicated boundaries at a site dating to the fourth century A.D. in Japan’s Nara Prefecture known
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A mutilated figurine of Ancient Roman god Mars has been found by archaeologists during the excavations of the Early Byzantine and medieval Bulgarian city of Missionis, also known
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AncientPages.com - The Archaeology and Ethnography Institute under the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences has discovered new archaeological materials during an excavation conducted on the frontline in Azerbaijan’s Agdam
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AncientPages.com - The Aşıklı Mound, where settlement first started in the Cappadocia region 11,000 years ago, offers a chance to travel back in time. Archaeological excavations have been
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AncientPages.com - Excavations at the Central Anatolian province of Çorum’s Alacahöyük site, one of the significant centers of the ancient Hittite civilization and Turkey’s first national excavation field,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The mysterious ancient city of Ebla ("White Rock") existed a thousand years before the biblical time of Kings David and Solomon. The Assyrians,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the earliest written records describing a very strange event witnessed in the skies comes from Egypt. It is an account of an
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AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old square labyrinth has been discovered in Gedimedu, a village 16km from Pollachi, Tamil Nadu state, India, by researchers from the Verarajendran Archaeological and Historical
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