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AncientPages.com - All human beings age. It is part of our biology and limits our lifespan to slightly over 120 years. Not all animals experience ageing during their lives. Some animals’ bodies
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Those who studied this unusual subject say several mysterious books containing remarkable secret knowledge have been deliberately hidden from public view. When reading
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AncientPages.com - The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to
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Archaeology
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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