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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study from The University of Western Australia has challenged earlier claims that Aboriginal stone artifacts discovered off the Pilbara coast in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Chances the ancient city of Bassania will ever be found have not been high. At the beginning of the 1st century A.D. and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is often said better late than never, and now after 100 years scientists can finally say they have sold the mystery of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A group of scientists has successfully sequenced and studied the whole genome of eight 1,700-year-old individuals dated to the Three Kingdoms period of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands has announced a unique archaeological discovery at Herwen-Hemeling (Zevenaar) where scientists have unearthed a complete and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An archaeological dig on one of Northeast Florida's unique sea islands, Big Talbot Island has been very successful so far. Scientists and students
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detector has discovered an ancient coin depicting mighty Viking King Harald Hardrada. The 1,000-year-old coin was found in southern Hungary. The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have unearthed the foundations of the Temple of the Sun and blocks dating back to Khufu‘s reign at the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many ancient civilizations appreciated board games. Some of the oldest known board games are still played, while others are all but forgotten. The
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AncientPages.com - Remember when Australians paid in shillings and pence? New research suggests the words for these coins and other culturally important items and concepts are the result
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers identified and reconstructed the first ancient genome of E. coli, using fragments extracted from the gallstone of a 16th century mummy. E. coli is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Were the bones of fallen Battle of Waterloo soldiers sold as fertilizer? As very few human remains have been found from what was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists report on the discovery of one of the largest Anglo-Saxon burial grounds in Britain. Archaeologists working on HS2 have made discoveries of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ivar the Boneless has gone into the history books as one of the most powerful Vikings ever lived. Not only was he one
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists has unraveled the earliest evidence for the domestication of a fruit tree. The researchers analyzed remnants of charcoal from
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavation is still going on at Tilaurakot, Kapilvastu of southern Nepal. According to archaeologists involved in the excavation, the recent discovery of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have located a unique Viking Age shipyard site at Birka on Björkö in Lake Mälaren. The discovery challenges previous theories about how
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Jan Barterk - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists had low expectations when excavations started at 35 Spaska Street in Kyiv in 2007. Two earlier archaeological surveys had been carried out
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Democracy is widely understood to have arisen in the Mediterranean world about 2,500 years ago before spreading through cultural contact to other parts
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 1347, the plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An artificial intelligence tool has spotted changes in flints from a 1-million-year-old ancient human site called Evron Quarry in Israel. A closer examination
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On April 23, people in Ireland celebrate Brian Boru, one of their greatest heroes who became famous for chasing off the Vikings. Brian
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have just published a study of what may prove to be China's most ancient human fossil. Scientists at the Centro Nacional de
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The troll is a fascinating mythological creature, well-known in Scandinavian countries. They were 'nature beings' because encounters with them usually took place in
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History
Zteve T Evans - AncientPages.com - Nova Anglia, or New England, was alleged to have been a community of exiled Anglo-Saxon nobles and warriors who intended it to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Chickens are the world’s most numerous domestic animal. In order to understand when, where, and how they first became associated with human societies,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A tomb of an upper-class female from the late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) has been excavated at the Taosibei cemetery site
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the greatest civilizations of Greek prehistory was the Mycenaean civilization, famous for its majestic architecture and monuments with a grand and impressive
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists at the University of Southampton have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While investigating the Three Bridge Mill located near the village of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, UK scientists discovered an early Roman rare wooden carved figure.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The spread of the grain from East Asia to Central Europe has been reconstructed by researchers at Kiel University. People were already living
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Countless ships have gone under since man took to the water. Many shipwrecks have never been found and their precise location has since been lost
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pi-Ramesse (Piramesse) is an example of an ancient city of great importance, which archaeologists surprisingly identified in two locations. Reconstruction of the city
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - An Egyptian-American team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new kind of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur, or theropod, from a celebrated
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Wallacean islands have always been separated from Asia and Oceania by deep-sea waters. Yet, these tropical islands were a corridor for modern
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient toilets and trash pits are like heaven to archaeologists. They might not have the glamor of a gleaming medieval jewel or intricate
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found that a tool, dubbed the "stone Swiss Army knife" of prehistory, was made to look the same in enormous numbers
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Roman Empire relied on a network of cities that played a pivotal role in its domain's administration, social organization, and economy.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Between 18 million and 12 million years ago, the Great Plains supported an unprecedented variety of hooved mammal species that browsed on leafy
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AncientPages.com - Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa. The continent is the cradle of human origins and ingenuity,
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Inonu University, Science Teaching Department - AncientPages.com - At the 44th UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting held online on July 26, 2021, it was decided to record Arslantepe
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