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Vikings
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the year 865 A.D., the Great Heathen Army, also known as the Great Viking Army, crossed the sea and dramatically changed the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary discovery is reported from the area of Mány, a town in Hungary located in the northeast of Fejér County, Hungary. Image credit:
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Celts are mysterious people who played a crucial role in the history of ancient Europe. In this article, we take an in-depth
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest known seeds from a watermelon relative, dating back 6,000 years to the Neolithic period, were found during an archaeological dig in
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Did the 12th century B.C.E.—a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text—coincide with an evolutionary reduction
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A priceless 800-year-old pendant dating back to the 12th century was discovered on a site that was once an Iron Age or Romano
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A very unique 1,700-year-old amphora was unearthed by archaeologists conducting excavations at the Diyarbakir Fortress site, located in the historic Sur district in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Khirbet Tibnah in the West Bank is a site of special interest to archaeologists, historians, and Biblical scholars. This region was populated from
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Locals in the village of Gudsathoo Budgam, Kashmir accidentally found a sculpture of the god Vishnu while digging the land. The idol of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Beer has been a popular beverage for thousands of years and will undoubtedly continue to be enjoyed in the future. Ecuadoran bioengineer Javier
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from Western University have verified the authenticity of a South American tsantsa (shrunken head) as human remains, an important step in the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A joint Polish- Italian archaeological mission excavating at the temple of King Nyuserre in the Abu Gorab necropolis north of Abusir made an important
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A long-standing Canadian mystery may have finally been solved. A combination of archaeological and geological studies shed new light on when the first
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This beautiful find was recovered and identified by Israel Antiquities Authority numismatics expert Lior Sandberg during a maritime survey. Image credit: Israel Antiquities
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A comprehensive scientific study combining high-quality aerial photography, a topographic survey, laser scanning, and geophysical survey have resulted in the discovery of an
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dutch fishermen onboard the shrimp cutter Wieringer 22 were astonished, to say the least, when they fished up a strange wooden statue. The
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have begun a new project to reveal the secrets of one of Britain’s most powerful Anglo-Saxon queens and the monastery which she
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of Cambridge is supporting a claim for the return to Nigeria of 116 objects currently held in the University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) collections that were
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Bantu Expansion transformed sub-Saharan Africa's linguistic, economic, and cultural composition. Today, more than 240 million people speak one of the more than
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A recent study by scientists from the University of Texas at Austin finds that a site in New Mexico offers some of the
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The discovery of an exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer's
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - According to legend, Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw from Nottingham, UK. Living in Sherwood Forest, he was famous for robbing the rich
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Something happened around 5,000 years ago that allowed one strain of herpes to overtake all others, possibly an increase in transmissions, which could
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered an approximately 2,000-year-old Mayan pot in a cave in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The National Institute of Anthropology
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An archaeological study has determined that cowrie-shell artifacts found throughout the Mariana Islands were lures used for hunting octopuses and that the devices,
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DNA
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPage.com - Four billion years ago, the Earth looked very different than it does today, devoid of life and covered by a vast ocean.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During pre-quarrying investigations at Lochinver Quarry to the southwest of the town Elgin, on the south coast of the Moray Firth roughly midway
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While conducting a routine measurement in the Trave river, the Kiel-Holtenau Waterways and Shipping Authority (Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt/WSA) discovered a ship at a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a 1,000-year-old sword belonging to a knight has been described as extraordinary by archaeologists. Dating back to the reign of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken identity in the archaeological record has conspired
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Prehistoric people in Europe were consuming milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once upon a time, there was an important commercial center on Gotland, the island located in the Baltic Sea, approximately 90 kilometers east
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –The Loch Ness Monster is “plausible,” a British university has declared, after finding that some plesiosaurs may have lived in freshwater. "Nessie proponents
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare, perfectly preserved bronze coin depicting the goddess of the Moon, minted 1,850 years ago under Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius in Alexandria,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Human footprints believed to date from the end of the last Ice Age have been discovered on the salt flats of the Air
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers link an eruption in the Aleutian Islands to Nile flood failures during Cleopatra’s reign. Cleopatra wouldn’t have seen the clouds of ash
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Although this 1700 years old luxury villa was excavated and examined both in 1856 and in the 1990s, it still has secrets to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The site of Tell Deir ‘Alla (“mound of the high monastery”), in the central Jordan Valley, was a settlement during the 13th century
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have previously confirmed modern humans and Neanderthals are closely related. In a past study, researchers discovered just 7% of our DNA is
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - The city of Mayapán was the largest Mayan city from approximately 1200 to 1450 AD. It was an important political, economic and religious center, and the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University have uncovered the remains of a medieval ship and its cargo dating back to the 13th century off
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger could hardly believe their eyes when dress accessories typical of a Viking Age woman was
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