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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have unearthed an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman
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AncientPages.com - Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also
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AncientPages.com - It is no secret that the Romans were heavy wine drinkers. Estimates put the average Roman male's consumption at a liter or more of diluted wine per day.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study scientifically corroborates an event described in the Second Book of Kings – the conquest of the Philistine city of Gath
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - MessageToEagle.com - Fossils of a new group of animal predators have been located in the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality in North Greenland. Fossil
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a peculiar stone disk while investigating an ancient hill fort in Rupinpiccolo, northeastern Italy. The 50 cm in diameter and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany have carried out the first comprehensive analysis of some 20 mummy fragments from collections in the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists are investigating a rather peculiar Medieval cemetery located in a field not far from Fonmon Castle in Wales, UK. The fortified Medieval
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Central features of human evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like climate change, says a recent study led by
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A centuries-old mystery may finally have been solved. Cerne Abbas Giant, the 180ft (55-meter) tall club-wielding man in Dorset, UK, has long been
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In eastern Mongolia, a 405 km long previously unexplored wall system has been largely overlooked in existing academic discourse. Named the “Mongolian Arc,”
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Some places have been shrouded in a veil of mystery for as long as anyone can remember. Today, we are taking a long
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - On 12 September 1901, Denis Peyrony, a local schoolmaster, stepped inside the Font-De-Gaume Cave. He discovered marvelous prehistoric cave paintings that our ancient
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 2023, scientists presented several interesting studies that gave us a better knowledge of our ancient human ancestors. In this article, we selected
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The shift from dense forests to open plains in Africa may have caused our ancient ancestors to change their vocal calls, research involving
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During excavations of a domus north of the house of a Leda and the Swan in Pompeii, archaeologists unearthed 13 ancient terracotta figurines.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near the village of Offord Cluny in Cambridgeshire have discovered the remains of a man who lived between AD 126–228 during
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The year 2023 has been successful for archaeologists working in different parts of the world. Scientists have discovered long-lost ancient structures, incredible shipwrecks
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study from a University of Colorado Boulder researcher conducted with colleagues in Argentina sheds new light on how the introduction of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research conducted by a team of archaeologists and earth scientists has shed light on the ancient landscapes of Sahul, the Pleistocene (Ice
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AncientPages.com - We're all familiar with the jolly, white-haired and bearded overweight man who sneaks down chimneys on Christmas Eve delivering presents to children. But where did this
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock management strategies and feeding practices. Above: Image of
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new computational tool detects up to second to third-degree cousins using ancient genomes. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in
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AncientPages.com - On December 18, 1941, it was forbidden to use the Norwegian flag and its colours in a way that offended national sentiment. The ban was issued by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When did archery arise in the Americas? And what were the effects of this technology on society? These questions have long been debated
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New dating analysis of existing human remains found worldwide has raised questions about some of our current histories of human evolution. The existence
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Italy is a country rich in unique ancient treasures, and there always seems to be something more archaeologists can discover, often in the
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers of China's Tsinghua University have published the results of new research focused on five sets of bamboo slips, in which the rites
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Evolutionary biologists have solved a major mammal skull shape evolution puzzle. The results of this interesting study shed some light on the evolution
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the forest steppe northwest of the Black Sea—today the territory of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine—mega-sites of the Trypillia societies emerged
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As the world faces the challenges of present-day climate change, scientific inquiry is, among other objectives, exploring how human societies navigate environmental variations at
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For more than 50 years, dental anthropologists have studied variation in the shape of human teeth to study the patterns of migration that
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During previous excavations, archaeologists have found plenty of evidence that Babylonians and Sumerians were skilled astronomers. Sumerian cuneiform tablets confirm that knowledge of
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Researchers have described a Japanese mosasaur the size of a great white shark that terrorized Pacific seas 72 million years ago. A
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There may still be vanished human species unknown to scientists. A research team has discovered an unusual 300,000-year-old jawbone with an unexpected combination
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AncientPages. com - Unique, prehistoric rock art drawings have been discovered in the Andriamamelo Cave in western Madagascar. I was part of a team that discovered and described
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working within the Colosseum Archaeological Park’s research project, have unearthed some rooms of a luxurious domus dated to the late Republican age. Image
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Polish archaeologists investigated the Castle Rock Pueblo settlement complex in Colorado and made a discovery that exceeded their “wildest expectations.” Archaeologists exploring in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh and oxygen-poor conditions
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Widespread caries and toothache – but also some dental work and filing of front teeth. Viking Age teeth from Varnhem bear witness to
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Biology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new research paper finds that genetic material from Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be
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