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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has discovered the existence of a long-forgotten continent they have dubbed Balkanatolia, which today covers the present-day Balkans
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Cave 53, in the Qumran region delivers new surprises. A whole pottery vessel from the Early Bronze Age, one of the few ever
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Venus Of Willendorf figurine has intrigued scientists for many years. Carved some 30,000 years ago, the figurine, dated to the Upper
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historical buildings and relics dating back to the Middle Iron Age through to the Roman period have been unearthed by archaeologists working on
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Europe, the Knights Templar were the first known warrior monks, active during the Crusades. However, warrior monks did not only exist in Europe.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans:
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A young woman walks Trondheim's streets 800 years ago, carrying a secret in her body. It's 150 years before the plague—the Black Death—but
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, commonly referred to as King Tut, had several cosmic jewels placed in his tomb when he died, being only
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1, we talked about an ancient Egyptian artifact with an engraving that could have a somewhat different meaning than previously thought.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Stele of Tell al-Rimah, dated to 796 BC, is a stone stela from the reign of the Assyrian king Adad-nigari III (810-783 BC)
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For hundreds of years, this strange “mermaid mummy” has been kept at a temple where it was worshipped by believers hoping the enigmatic
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A site, Horvat Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah, which is linked to one of the most famous biblical stories - the story
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal. This was very
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During routine excavations at the site of Abusir 30 km north of the Giza Plateau, excavators from the Czech Institute of Egyptology at
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As many of our readers know by now, there is no doubt the first ancient Egyptians were much ahead of their time. Thousands
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study examining the chemical makeup of iron artifacts from the Viking age aims to uncover new insights into where they came
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research released today finds that while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval English heroic or chivalric
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Simon the Sorcerer (or Simon the Magician) is a Biblical figure and Samaritan religious leader mentioned in Acts 8: 9-24. He lived at
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-held consensus that the more populated and "civilized" a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How did Baroque period artists/sculptors go about their craft? For the first time, researchers have performed a forensic anthropological analysis of a marble
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Siberian Valley of the Kings, on the Southern Siberian Steppe of the Russian Federation, is a place of significance to archaeologists who
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of ancient runes is always of great interest to those who study Norse history and culture. Many runic inscriptions have been
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Kathryn Best and Mahmoud Hassaan Al Hashash - AncientPages.com - Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand. - Neil Armstrong, Astronaut Why
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study has confirmed saltwater drowning as the cause of death for a Neolithic man whose remains were found in a mass
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Bible is one of the world’s most-read books and one of the least understood. Though many events and personalities mentioned in the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The beautiful and mysterious Tate's Hell Swamp in Franklin County is a natural jewel between the Apalachicola and Ochlockonee rivers. Home to many
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Pakistan report they have unearthed a 1,800-year-old Buddhist stupa and relics in the region of the northwestern province of Khyber
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study reveals how archeologists can determine when a pot was used by Romans as a portable toilet, known as a chamber
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among the more than two hundred megalithic structures discovered in southwestern Spain's province of Huelva, there is one particularly impressive and, at the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - People in Armenia say they are descendants of Hayk (Haic), who was their Patriarch and founder of the nation. Knowledge about the fascinating
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What a person eats influences that person's health, longevity and experience in the world. Identifying the factors that determine people's diets is important
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we looked at ancient memories of so-called reptilian gods. We examined some ancient artifacts and discussed the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings were not a uniform phenomenon in ancient Scandinavia. They were part of a complex system of plunder economy that existed in Europe
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There is a mysterious, ominous, and sacred tree of yew among many trees revered by ancient cultures since the dawn of human civilization.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Viking Gjermundbu helmet is one of the most valuable Viking Age artifacts ever discovered. Over the years, archaeologists have discovered many precious Viking
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A groundbreaking study in prehistoric archaeology at Tel Aviv University provides evidence for high cognitive abilities in early humans who lived 170,000 years
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A once-in-a-lifetime archival discovery reveals that a rare map hiding behind a false identity in Washington D.C. was the work of William Clark,
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Ellen Lloyd -AncientPages.com - Ancient artifacts of unusual reptilian-like gods have been found in Mesopotamia and other parts of the world. Ancient civilizations separated by vast distances produced
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many ancient places in Peru are as beautiful as valuable to history. Not far from the city of Cajamarca, there is a fascinating
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