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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Excavations in Hualongdong (HLD), East China, have revealed abundant hominin fossils dating back 300,000 years. The fossils from a late Middle Pleistocene were excavated
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Forget your sense of exploration; do not let your curiosity get the best of you. The scenery is tempting, and your urge to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD is currently being exposed in the City of David, Jerusalem Walls National
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When excavating in the La Noguera region of the Pyrenean foothills, Spain scientists discovered bony remains of a 14,000-year-old skeleton of a small
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A rare 2,500-year-old marble disc, designed to protect ancient ships and ward off the evil eye, was discovered by a lifeguard diving at
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One of the first finds in new excavation reveals a glimpse of Roman life at Milecastle 46 on Hadrian’s Wall. Steelyard beam. Image
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Ancient Technology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While 21st-century water companies struggle to maintain clean, fresh supplies, a new study reveals that, some 2,000 years ago, Roman water engineers were
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hailed as a sensation find, researchers report they have discovered the official entrance to an Ice Age cave near Engen, Germany, that nobody
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Medieval sword was found in the sea off the Carmel coast, and it probably fell into the water during a naval battle
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Excavations by a University of Kansas paleontologist working in a treasure trove of fossils called the "Spence Shale Lagerstätte" have revealed an ancient
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early colonial settlers likely survived the harsh frontier conditions of 17th-century Delaware because they banded as family units to work alongside enslaved African
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a Neolithic ornate necklace in a child's grave in Jordan. According to a new study, this single accessory provides new
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AncientPages.com - Science fiction is rife with fanciful tales of deadly organisms emerging from the ice and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting human victims. From shape-shifting aliens in Antarctica, to super-parasites
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Archaeoastronomy
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Coal has long played a crucial role in the life of human civilizations. Records of systematic coal fuel exploitation date back to the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography "Moon and Rainbow" in which he recounted his ancestors' stories. Among them
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During a search for artifacts made of meteoritic iron, archaeologists accidentally found a Bronze Age arrowhead stored in the Bern History Museum’s collection.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Exeter, UK, have made several intriguing finds this season. For the first time in 150 years, scientists have the opportunity
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DNA
AncientPages.com - Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins. It’s difficult to imagine
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new species of dinosaur was discovered in Northeastern Thailand, in 2012, and now, a team of multidisciplinary experts in paleontology led by
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The origin of bees is tens of millions of years older than most previous estimates, a new study shows. A team led
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists discovered the ancient figurine, they assumed it was a horse, but this is not the case. Scientists have now uncovered a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary Medieval sundial has been discovered in the old town of Marburg, Germany. Students at Marburg University had been excavating the site
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Palmwood shipwreck was discovered off the coast of the Dutch island of Texel in the Wadden Sea. The ship, whose name is
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists found a curious ancient artifact while excavating in a cave in Poggio Nativo, Lazio, Italy. The object in question has been described
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Geology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – High up in the Himalayas, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Niigata University, Japan, have discovered droplets of water
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AncientPages.com - The walls of ancient Egyptian tombs can teach us much about the lives of the pharaohs and their entourages. Tomb paintings showed the deceased and their
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers analyzed and reconstructed the destruction layer excavated within the rooms of a two-story building in Jerusalem that was occupied until the city's
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