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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) and non-profit Silentworld Foundation have continued ongoing archaeological investigation of the wreck of South Australian, with recent
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AncientPages.com - Footprints on a sandy surface don't usually last long: they're washed away by water, wiped out by wind or covered over by new tracks. At certain
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers have found a shared penchant for sewing reflective shell beds onto clothing and other items across three Indonesian islands
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The theory that iron technology was a late introduction, passively received by the population in communities of the Circumpolar North, was finally challenged.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavated at Assos, an ancient Greek city located on the Aegean coast in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale province, Turkey, discovered a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - Ancient Pages.com - Jade was held sacred by many ancient civilizations. The green stone has been found in many ancient tombs and placed there as
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -During a rescue excavation in 1996 in the town of Lod, one of the most impressive mosaic floors in Israel was discovered! Image credit: Israel
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals that are now an iconic fossil group often collected by amateurs. Over 350
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A large Anglo-Saxon burial has been unearthed at Bicker Fen, Lincolnshire, UK. The discovery was part of Viking Link’s construction. A project team
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Zapotec civilization was by no means primitive. On the contrary, when investigating archaeological sites in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica, scientists
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of many impressive and colorful figures in Greek mythology is Circe, a divine witch and goddess of incredible power. She could predict the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists knew it was a race against time, but their struggle to find the ancient structure was not in vain. A long-lost Roman
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient pyramids have been found on all continents, and the test ancient structures' purpose varies depending on the civilizations that constructed them. It
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists report they have discovered the remains of an ancient sunken ship at a site in the Mediterranean Sea, roughly 650 meters
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Earlier this year, a massive and horrifying earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. Almost 60,000 people died in
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Underwater Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have uncovered what may be Europe’s oldest settlement now located beneath the waters of Lake Ohrid, (the "Pearl of the Balkans."). The
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In February 2022, the journal Scientific Reports published a paper with the claim that a comet exploded over what is now Cincinnati around
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Human Beginnings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A new study published in the journal Science finds that around 1.12 million years ago a massive cooling event in the North
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has found evidence that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding shifts in climate and vegetation played a
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists, led by Egyptian researchers, has made a groundbreaking discovery of a new species of extinct whale, Tutcetus rayanensis,
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Genetic kinship analyses of human bones reach their limits if the DNA is poorly preserved or if destructive sampling is not possible. New
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A luxurious artifact carved out ivory dating from the time of the Kingdom of Judah period (9th–8th centuries BCE) was uncovered during an
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Around 150 so-called circular enclosures are known from the Central and Eastern European Middle Neolithic (first half of the 5th millennium BCE). Only a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures used so-called 'magical mirrors' to ward off evil forces. The belief in the power of the Evil Eye goes thousands
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Arenaerpeton supinatus was discovered in rocks cut from a nearby quarry that were intended for the building of a garden wall. A 240-million-year-old fossil of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study has nuanced the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age and how certain groups of
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers recently studied the remains of a modern human baby unearthed in the Grotte du Renne ("Reindeer's cave") located in Arcy-sur-Cure, Northeast France.
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