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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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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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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have used 3D scanning to investigate inscriptions carved on two groups of Danish runestones, revealing that four stones were likely made in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The fact that Neanderthals were able to make a fire and use it, among other things, for cooking, demonstrates their intelligence. "This confirms
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2022, archaeologists made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair was discovered in a woman's grave in Steinsfeld in Central Franconia
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have revealed that a hoard of coins buried in a small pot, just discovered in Glencoe, Scotland, paints a fascinating picture of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the skin of this dangerous carnivore, a new study has shown for the first time. Excavations at
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Translating ancient texts, filling in missing parts of clay tablets: articles are often popping up about the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence for
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Italy could hardly believe their eyes when they opened a mysterious ancient chamber tomb in the municipality of Giugliano in Campania,
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New imaging and scientific investigations by a team including a King's College London academic has found traces of the original paint used to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have been excavating at the Celtic settlement in Samborowice (Silesia) for a significant number of years, This year, a number of intriguing
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings are often depicted as crude barbarians running around yelling and waving with swords, but there are many reasons we should reconsider whether
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People who carry three gene variants inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study co-led
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is much to be learned from many ancient civilizations. Ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water,
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This beautiful little key was recently recovered by our Kemble field team from a Newland Homes site near Claverham, North Somerset. Medieval key from Court De
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Earlier this year our Kemble fieldwork team undertook a small excavation at the edge of Claverham village, North Somerset, for Newland Homes. The excavation
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Not all archaeological discoveries reach the press. There are intriguing finds made by people who did not report their curious discoveries to the media
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new decorated stela has been found in context, in the 3000-year-old funerary complex of Las Capellanías, in Cañaveral de León (Huelva, south-west of Spain).
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Earth Changes
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analyzing ancient tree-rings found in
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Some of nature's mysteries have kept scientists busy for decades—for example, the processes that drive evolution. The question of whether certain differences between
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - When and how humans first settled in the Americas is a subject of considerable controversy. In the 20th century, archaeologists believed that humans reached the North American
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One can easily imagine how impressive the 19-meter-long Gjellestad Viking ship must have been before being destroyed. In 2018 archaeologists made an incredible discovery
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Vikings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings understood the importance and benefits of trading and exchanging often in the selling and buying of goods. During the Viking Age, people
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists propose a psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Use-wear analysis of grinding tools unearthed at the site of Jebel Oraf in the Nafud desert, shows that the artifacts were used during
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