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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Artifacts made of stone, bones or teeth provide important insights into the subsistence strategies of early humans, their behavior and culture. However, until
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One question science has long wanted answers to is simple: How cold was the ice age? We now have an answer to this
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Cycads, a group of gymnosperms that can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to be
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Archaeologists have discovered one of the oldest Cyrillic inscriptions from the time of King Simeon the Great This important discovery was made in the
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An impressive discovery of the 2,000-year-old tomb with human remains that belong to a Roman physician, aged between 50 and 60 years, with
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2015, Gkuthaarn and Kukatj community members of Queensland's Gulf Country invited us to excavate, analyze, and rebury the skeletal remains of eight
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - An unusually well-preserved "Marine Dwarf World" from 462 million years ago was found at Castle Bank, Wales by a team led by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists stumbled upon something extraordinary while excavating a Celtic grave. They discovered a pair of extremely well-preserved scissors and a strangely folded sword
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pax Deorum ("peace of the gods") signified the central goal of the Roman state religion. The Pax Deorum provided divine protection to the Roman Empire,
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Historical Figures
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Netflix's new movie about Queen Cleopatra has upset many people. Starring Adele James as Cleopatra, John Partridge as Julius Caesar, Craig Russell as Marc
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Egyptian seaport Berenice Troglodytica (also knowns as Briniki ) on the western shore of the Red Sea have
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists from Brazil and Chile reveal an important discovery about the past of the most inhospitable continent on Earth, Antarctica. Today covered
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Picts of Scotland who have long intrigued and have been ascribed exotic origins in fact descended from indigenous Iron Age society and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford's School of
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Botanists and paleontologists, led by researchers from CU Boulder, have identified a fossil chili pepper that may rewrite the geography and evolutionary timeline
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Maritime history dates back thousands of years, och there is no doubt many ancient civilizations had excellent knowledge of navigation and sailing. Once
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Persistent burial practices over many centuries challenge simplistic assumptions about ancient culture. View across Boquerón Bay, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, with the Ortiz
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Commercial production of luxury “Gaza wine” was long assumed to be the economic basis of Late Antique settlement in the Negev Desert. Scientists
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DNA
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A previously overlooked letter and a news article that was never published, both written in 1953, add to other lines of evidence
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence—locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas—of a series of severe and lengthy droughts which may
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study reveals that Nerja is the European cave containing Paleolithic Art with the most confirmed and recurrent visits during prehistory. For
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering land bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An unusual blinking fish, the mudskipper, spends much of the day out of the water and provides clues as to how and why
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early human foragers may have relied on eating the partially digested vegetable matter, called digesta, found in the stomachs and digestive tracts of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This isn't the first time the price of eggs has skyrocketed. During the mid-19th-century gold rush, San Francisco's population ballooned from around 800
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd– AncientPages.com – It’s difficult to say where we can find traces of the world’s oldest civilization because many ancient underwater ruins still await our discovery. There
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