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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist has made an extraordinary discovery that re-writes the history of ancient Britain. In March this year, after receiving permission from
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It's a familiar story to many of us: In prehistoric times, men were hunters and women were gatherers. Women were not physically capable
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It's said that a dog is a man's best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists from the Universities of Granada and Cambridge, as well as the Government of Catalonia, have identified the oldest pieces
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Locals in the city of Atlixco in central Mexico have long told stories of an ancient temple that once stood on the top
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After almost 2,000 years, the first full word from the Herculaneum scroll has been deciphered by a 21-year-old computer science student at the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The two Roman coin hoards were discovered by metal-detectorists David Moss and Tom Taylor in Caerhun Community, Conwy, during the winter of 2018-2019.
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. If evolution
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the karstic caves of Puerto Rico, cave art paints the rock walls. Previous research has assigned ages to this art based on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 2,000 years ago, a Roman man tried to clean a well and lost a sandal. The well-preserved ancient shoe was discovered during
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Contemporary humans carry in their cells a small amount of DNA derived from Neanderthals and Denisovans. “Denny,” a 90,000-year-old fossil individual, recently identified
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, scientists have traced the history of migrations between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. About 40,000 years
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A magnificent Bronze Age treasure has been discovered in Switzerland. The adventure started when Franz Zahn examined a freshly harvested carrot field in
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When you look at the painting, you may not notice it immediately, but once you examine the artwork closer, you can see something
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For thousands of years, beavers had a big influence on the Dutch ecosystem and the people that lived there. This is the conclusion
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For many people, seaweed holds a reputation as a superfood, heralded for its health benefits and sustainability. Still, it appears our European ancestors
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study describes "a missing law of nature," recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world's workings. In
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Pioneering early farmers who arrived on the Baltic coast 6,000 years ago may have taken up fishing after observing indigenous hunter-gatherer communities, a
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many years ago, a large granite boulder was found in Ireland. It is one of many intriguing ancient stones in the country, except
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have used gold impurities in silver coins and lead pollution in Greenland ice to show that the Romans were early pioneers of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The boat is not ancient, but the discovery is truly incredible. While working on a drainage problem to ease the flooding problem in
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - While documenting fossil tracksites along a stretch of Lake Powell, a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) field crew discovered
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An interesting archaeological discovery has been made in Finland. In Salo Perttel, near the Medieval stone church, scientists have discovered a previously unknown
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - With its low amounts of rain and soaring high temperatures, the Sahara Desert is often regarded as one of Earth's most extreme and
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a spectacular fossil site in Argentina is helping shed new light on life at the end of the Cretaceous, the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Susa (modern-day Shush, Khuzestan Province, Iran) remains one of the world's oldest cities. It has been continuously inhabited since
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa is an eternal masterpiece that has now given up a secret. Using X-rays and infrared spectroscopy to
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rats in the kitchen. Typically that implies issues with cleanliness and safety. But in medieval Japan, having rats in the kitchen could suggest
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