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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Research into ancient hunter-gatherer populations of the Iberian Peninsula has mainly focused on coastal regions, with relatively little investigation into the inland. A classic
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence suggesting the ancient use of ochre in Africa and Europe indicates that body painting, clothing decoration, and tattooing may
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While investigating a site at the southern edge of the Nefud desert in Saudia Arabia, archaeologists discovered remarkable ancient life-sized engravings of extinct
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 10,000 Pre-Columbian archaeological sites likely rest undiscovered throughout the Amazon basin, estimates a new study. Geographical distribution of known and newly
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During the ongoing restoration works of Esna Temple in Luxor , the Egyptian-German archaeologists additionally uncovered more original reliefs and engravings on the
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Our species, Homo sapiens, migrated out of Africa multiple times – reaching the Levant and Arabia between 130,000 and 70,000 years ago, as exemplified by human fossils
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The remains of human bones with cutmarks, breaks and human chewing marks found across northern Europe show that some human groups living around
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are puzzled by 5,000-year-old bear bones found on the Unalaska and Amaknak Islands in the Aleutians, Alaska. The ancient bones have been
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Cave of Letters in the Judean Desert, Israel, was discovered many years ago by Bedouin of the Ta`amireh tribe. When the cave
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - To help resolve the scientific debate over whether it was a giant asteroid or volcanic eruptions that wiped out the dinosaurs and
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News
AncientPages.com - How often do you think about the Roman empire? This question, posed to men by their partners on social media app TikTok, has led to a
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AncientPages.com - There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were
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Geology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The Grand Canyon’s valleys and millions of years of rock layers spanning Earth’s history have earned it a designation as one of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare 2,500-year-old Scythian bone sceptre has been found in a grave by archaeologists excavating in the prehistoric salt mining and urban center
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AncientPages.com - You might be forgiven for thinking of abortion as a particularly modern phenomenon. But there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that abortion has been a constant
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Africa is the birthplace of modern humans and the continent with the highest level of genetic diversity. While ancient DNA studies reveal some
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Um Al-Qaab archaeological site in Abydos in Sohag Governorate, Egypt, have discovered hundreds of 5,000-year-old well-preserved wine jars and grave
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The cuneiform tablet unearthed in the Hittite city of Samuha points to the connection with the famous temple of the Goddess Sausga (also
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a
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Artifacts
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - The game mancala may have originated as far back as 6000 BCE in Jordan and is played around the world to this day. It
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While searching for a missing gold ring with a metal detector, a family in Norway found, to their big surprise, something entirely different
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s true. By stepping outside the box of our usual way
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Koine Greek inscription paraphrasing Psalms 86 was discovered by archaeologists at the site of Hyrcania Fortress in the Judean Desert. Adorned with
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of evolutionary scientists has presented evidence the Neanderthals vanishing when Homo sapiens emerged in Europe may have been coincidental. In a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed a Roman cosmetics shop in the marketplace in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Turkey. Famous for its well-preserved temple of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Glacial archaeologists working in Norway have once again discovered fascinating ancient artifacts under the ice. Near a mountain pass, not far from Norway's
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Places
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th-century slayings, and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in southern Europe (9,500 and 6,200
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