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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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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found a 2,300-year-old tomb of a Greek courtesan (hetaira – in Ancient Greek) in a burial cave in Jerusalem. The cremated
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A remarkable archaeological breakthrough has been made with excavating and restoring rooms in the pyramid of Sahura, which is located in Abusir. The
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DNA
AncientPages.com - When researchers used DNA from the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man”, one of Britain’s oldest skeletons, they unveiled what the first inhabitants of what now is Britain actually
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Birds were an important source of food for hunter-gatherer communities in Upper Mesopotamia at the beginning of the Neolithic period, around 9,000 years
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A research team has found the remains of nine different camelids, making Córdoba one of the main sites featuring this animal on the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It does not happen often archaeologists find an ancient unlooted Roman sarcophagus. When it happens, like it just did in France, it is
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Previous studies show Neanderthals invented or developed birch tar making technique independently from Homo sapiens. Studying prehistoric production processes of birch bark tar
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For two years, archaeologists have been excavating Kremna, an ancient city located in the province of Burdur (Taurus mountains)a city located on the
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 455-million-year-old fossil fish provides a new perspective on how vertebrates evolved to protect their brains, a study has found. In a paper
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 2,000 years ago, a ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations have revealed large Roman latrines located in Bet Shean, Israel. These latrines are the largest in the country, with 60 wooden
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Ancient Technology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered that ancient Roman glass, known as "wow glass," has formed a strange type of crystal that refracts light in surprising
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the Archaeological Zone of Palenque in southern Mexico report they have found an ancient Maya nose ornament made of human
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For as long as anyone can remember, children loved to play with various toys, but kids living a long time ago did not
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As many as 35 beautiful 1,400-year-old gold figures were discovered at a site where a Pagan temple was once located outside Lillehammer, Norway.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have long tried to solve a complicated Ice Age mystery, and they now suggest pollen analysis may be the answer to this
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Found at McGraths Flat, NSW, a fossil site known for its iron-rich rock called "goethite," the new genus of spider is the first ever spider fossil of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists made a remarkable new find during an archaeological dig at Govan Old Churchyard in Glasgow, Scotland. Led by y the University of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Boğazköy-Hattusha in north-central Turkey have discovered a new Indo-European language. This was once the capital
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many years ago, in 1986, the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia in Spain received a box. The gift was a donation from amateur paleontologist
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Caves served as sites for burial and later modification of human remains for thousands of years in the Iberian Peninsula, according to a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The rich soil holds thousands of tons of carbon, sequestered over centuries by indigenous practices, a new study suggests. The Amazon river basin
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new research by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A marvelous submerged ancient world can be found in the ancient port city of Thonis-Heracleion in the Bay of Aboukir off Egypt’s Mediterranean
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While both men and women have historically been accused of the malicious use of magic, only around 10–30% of suspected witches were men
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An intriguing 1,300-year-old grave belonging to a Merovingian warrior has been discovered during an archaeological survey of an early Medieval cemetery in Ingelheim,
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Biology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new analysis of mass extinction at the genus level, from researchers at Stanford and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, finds a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Analysis of hair combs made from deer antler has shed new light on the trade routes of Vikings—revealing connections between northern Scandinavia and
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