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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In excavations carried out on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the City of David, within the Jerusalem Walls National Park, and funded
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An enormous, rare cargo of 1,800-year-old marble artifacts, borne in a merchant ship that was shipwrecked in a storm, was uncovered in the
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - New evidence for the presence of ancient lakes in some of the most arid regions of South Africa suggests that Stone Age
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AncientPages.com - Games have been played for thousands of years in cultures across the world. There's the chequerboard game Senet, played in Egypt around BCE 3100. The African cup
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The Late Ordovician mass extinction event (LOME) has long been viewed as odd compared to other mass extinction events in Earth's history.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent research has hypothesized that the earliest evidence of human lip kissing originated in a very specific geographical location in South Asia 3,500
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many fascinating archaeological findings have been made in Sweden, but when it comes to petroglyphs, this is one of the biggest discoveries in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest scale plans of human made megastructures are reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE on May 17, 2023. The engravings, dated
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Fire has played an important role in human life since the dawn of history. Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland have found that
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day US Virgin Islands on his second voyage across the Atlantic in 1493, the islands were already
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But many uncertainties remain, and competing theories about where, when, and how. An
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata), normally known as sea scorpions, are an important extinct group of Paleozoic chelicerate arthropods. Life reconstruction of Archopterus anjiensis.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating at Bjørvika, east of Oslo’s center in Norway, scientists discovered the remains of an ancient structure. It turned out that these
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists performing rescue work on section 7 of the Maya Train route have accidentally discovered a unique stone sculpture of the Mayan god
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 1914, two beads were found under the great ziggurat of Aššur in Iraq, in a foundation deposit dating from around 1800-1750 BC.
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Irritator challengeri was a two-legged, meat-eating dinosaur, or more precisely—a spinosaurid. The knowledge of the species is based on the most complete
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from INRAP (French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research) recently unearthed two Neolithic settlements of which one has well-preserved
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What can human hands possibly have in common with fish fins? Not much, most would say. However, according to scientists, fossil evidence offers
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Four ancient Egyptian artefacts that were illegally smuggled to Italy have found their way home. The artefacts were handed over to the Egyptian
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An Egyptian team of archaeologists has discovered a collection of structure relics dated to the Byzantine and Late Period in Meir Necropolis in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA from pre-Hispanic individuals in northern and central Mexico, revealing contributions from an unknown “ghost” population. The result of
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Half a billion years ago, an unusual-looking animal crawled over the sea floor, using tentacles to pick up food particles along the way. Known
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Finland, many unexplored ancient caves hold many secrets. One of them is called Varggrottan, which means Wolf Cave in English. When archaeologists
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The underground of the city of Naples has no doubt many undiscovered secrets. The remains of the ancient necropolis of Neapolis- located about 10
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study published in the journal Science by an international team finds that early human species adapted to mosaic landscapes and diverse
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a study published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, an international research team led by scientists from the University of Tübingen
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Several magnificent Iron Age, Roman, and post-Medieval artifacts found in Monmouthshire, a county in the southeast of Wales, have been declared a treasure.
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have tried to solve the enduring mystery of language evolution, and it seems something that happened 70,000 years ago may shed light
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