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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Catequil, revered in Inca mythology, was believed to create thunder by striking the clouds with his sacred spear and a formidable club. This powerful
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - We may never know the thoughts and emotions of our long-gone ancestors. Still, we can gain plenty of other valuable information based on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report unearthing an extremely important 4,000-year-old grave in Norway. It's a sensational discovery and the most unique Stone Age finds in Norway
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A diver who caught a glimpse of something metallic found tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins just off shore Sardinia, near Arzachena,
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AncientPages.com - How did our species, Homo sapiens, arrive in Western Europe? Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, our new study analyzes two skull fragments dating back between 37,000 and 36,000
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A rare medieval religious tattoo was unearthed in a burial in Ghazali, Sudan by a team of researchers from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti western:
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Marina Ascunce, currently at the USDA-ARS, and colleagues, report these findings in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Credit: Adobe Stock - Gorodenkoff The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This year, an archaeology expedition of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of the UK excavated shaft tombs from
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - While excavating at the mountain, scientists discovered something ancient and unusual hidden inside an underground structure. Soon, all excavations were stopped. Is it
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Over 100 letters sent to French sailors by their fiancées, wives, parents and siblings -- but never delivered -- have been opened and studied
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have found that previous studies analyzing the genomes of people with European ancestry may have reported inaccurate results by not fully accounting
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings, traditionally depicted as primitive bearded warriors, had a fondness for some of life's precious things. In Europe, hundreds of buried hoards of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed a strange 1,000-year-old grave containing the remains of a woman and man. The most curious aspect of this discovery is
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This autumn, the Polish-Georgian Gonio-Apsaros expedition completed the 10th season of excavations at the Roman fort of Apsaros, south of Batumi on the
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AncientPages.com - The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human Y chromosome is degenerating and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The hunter-gatherers who settled on the banks of the Haine, a river in southern Belgium, 31,000 years ago were already using spearthrowers to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One does not need to be an art expert to recognize the value of the magnificent Golden Tree of Lucignano. Created by goldsmith
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Germany report discovering the largest building of its kind from the Nordic Bronze Age (circa 2200-800 BC). The spectacular find was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The steamship Africa vanished without a trace on a stormy October night in 1895. For 128 years, many wondered what had happened to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers re-analysed more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain. They found that many of the individuals
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - When we think of Neanderthals, we often imagine these distant ancestors of ours to be rather brutish, dying at a young age and ultimately becoming extinct.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Earlier this year, scientists reported the discovery of a sophisticated 4,000-year-old steppe pyramid in Kazakhstan. Archaeologists have now found yet another pyramid located on
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from Tübingen have redefined a rhinoceros genus that had fallen into oblivion: Eochilotherium lived more than 5 million years ago and did
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Earth Changes
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of the bones and muscles in ancient fish gives new clues about how the shoulder evolved in animals – including
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists conducting surveys off the coast of Salamis have found an ancient Greek building and magnificent marble treasures. According to reports, it
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient Greek city of Assos on the Aegean coast of modern Turkey is an interesting place where many archaeological have been made.
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