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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The fort of Vindolanda, one of the earliest Roman garrisons, built by the Roman army in England, is one of Europe's most important Roman
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Egyptian Book of the Dead provides unique insights into the religious life of ancient Egypt. A new handbook presents the current state
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In late June, archaeologists conducted what they thought would be a minor investigation of Herlaugshaugen, a burial mound on the island of Leka
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers. Every bird you’ve ever seen— every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo— is
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 150-million-year-old stomach stone has been found in the UK, making it the oldest discovered fossil of its kind. Found by renowned
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have uncovered a spectacular mosaic panel in the late Roman (ca. 400 C.E.) synagogue at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel's
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from Bournemouth University have discovered a Bronze Age burial site during an excavation of a prehistoric settlement in Dorset. It is
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have ever lived. Unearthed
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As reported last week, a Norwegian couple was extending their home when they suddenly noticed something unusual sticking up from the earth. It
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Usually, the Sirens were considered daughters of the river god Achelous, either by the Muse Terpsichore, Melpomene, Calliope, or by Sterope, daughter of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When Mount Vesuvius erupted on the morning of August 24, 79 A.D., life ended in the ancient city of Pompeii. A great cloud
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers
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DNA
AncientPages.com - The people known as the Picts have puzzled archaeologists and historians for centuries. They lived in Scotland during the early medieval period, from around AD 300 to
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Worn as a note in an amulet around the neck, deposited in a grave, or found as a manual in a scholar's library:
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Our oceans hold many clues that could shed light on our ancient past. Beneath the waters are incredible prehistoric objects and ruins of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An archaeological expedition from the University of Gothenburg recently discovered tombs outside the Bronze Age trading metropolis Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus. Detail
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The highest status individual in ancient Copper Age society in Iberia, was a woman and not a man as previously thought, according to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some of the largest early prehistoric stone tools in Britain have been discovered by researchers at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. ASE Senior
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study has brought us one step closer to solving a mystery that has puzzled naturalists since Charles Darwin: when did animals
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wanted to travel back in time and see what life was like in ancient Greece? We can do this by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report a rare discovery of late Roman pewter plates, platters, bowls, and a cup that has been made in Euston, in the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In this comprehensive study, Professor Garfinkel from the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem examines the earliest fortified sites in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck has been discovered underwater in the southeastern Spanish region of Murcia. Spanish archaeologists are now working hard to recover
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A groundbreaking study conducted by a multidisciplinary team that include a computational archaeologist, artist, and computer programmer has revealed new insights into ancient
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Basel researcher stumbles across first real proof of monitor lizards in Switzerland, and this unexpected discovery was made in the Museum's collection storeroom.
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Showing your face at dinners and parties at court: it was the way to get noticed by the king in William I's time.
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Language can be a time machine—we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Linmere, Bedfordshire, UK, have discovered 25 monumental pits in what has become a nationally important prehistoric site. The site date
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A number of sophisticated non-invasive nuclear and accelerator techniques were used to provide information about the origin and age of an Australian Aboriginal
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