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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hunting the now-extinct straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was widespread among Neanderthals, concludes a research team. In the study published in Proceedings of the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery south of the Arctic Circle. Scientists call the place a cemetery even though the graves are
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A beautiful small Roman copper-alloy tortoise figurine has been recovered by a local metal detector user near Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, UK. Tortoises or
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Seven impressive Bronze Age swords and a large hoard of Slavic coins have been unearthed by volunteer archaeologists in Germany. The find was
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Someone is out there watching you and your house. Is it revenge, bad luck, or mere coincidence? You feel frightened, vulnerable, and helpless.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans during the Paleolithic. Scientists found that humans
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Found in a field, near Horsham St Faith north of Norwich, UK, by a metal detectorist this beautiful seal matrix has been hailed
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered dozens of unique artifacts that span more than 7,000 years in melting ice patches in British Columbia's Mount Edziza Provincial
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new study. Numerous fossil sites in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Polish archaeologists excavating at Pachacámac, (Pachakamak, in Quechua), which means ‘one who gives life to the earth’, an archaeological site south-east of Lima in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The 9,000-year-old shaman burial in Bad Dürrenberg, Germany, is one of Central Europe's most spectacular discoveries. Discovered in 1934 during construction works, the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers can now show that early humans of the Middle Paleolithic had a more varied diet than previously assumed. The
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new genetic study reveals indigenous Mexicans migrated to California 5,200 years ago. Researchers have found evidence hunter-gatherers who came from Mexico spread
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AncientPages.com - Elagabalus ruled as Roman emperor for just four years before being murdered in AD 222. He was still a teenager when he died. Despite his short reign, Elagabalus
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed the largest floor mosaic in İncesu district, Örenşehir District, Köy İçi locality, in the Cappadocia region. Archaeological excavations in İncesu
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Something strange and unexplained happened on the Træna islands in Nordland county, Norway. Why was the entire local community wiped out? One would
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a landmark collaboration between Wiradjuri people, NSW State government and archaeologists, new research has revealed the deep-time hidden story of Wiradjuri carved
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In folklore, the famous 34-meter-long crevice cave known as Pirunkirkko, or Devil's Church in English, was known as a place where local sages
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have spent much time working on the examination and conservation of a Medieval shipwreck wreck found near the Old City Harbour of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the ancient city Hattusa in Turkey keep making fascinating discoveries. Once the capital of the Hittite empire, the city of
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Earth Changes
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Fens of eastern England, a low-lying, extremely flat landscape dominated by agricultural fields, was once a vast woodland filled with huge yew
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a new repeat gene cluster sequence that is exclusively expressed in humans and non-human primates. The discovery, detailed in a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the ancient city of Doliche in southeastern Turkey have uncovered more than 2,000 clay seal impressions. The seal impression, bullae,
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new artificial intelligence (AI) software is now able to decipher difficult-to-read texts on cuneiform tablets. It was developed by a team from Martin
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Sumerians were an advanced ancient civilization fully aware of the dangers climate can pose. They naturally knew there was no survival without water,
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Crocodiles have a deep and varied evolutionary past. Now, researchers are peeling back the layers to find out how the surviving species
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today, there are no more than 1,088 Ket people left. Only a few of them are Native speakers who master the Ket language.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France), which has been sealed for thousands of years, were actually
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found more evidence that a site at Rendlesham, near Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, UK, was important to East Anglian Kings. Previous
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