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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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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recently declared a treasure, it takes one look to realize this Bronze Age ring is unusual. The ancient gold ring was found by
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - We now know more about the diet of a prehistoric creature that grew up to two and a half meters long and
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed for the first time by scientists
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A group of metal detectorists examining a field near the Viking castle Fyrkat have discovered two remarkable treasures. The two Viking treasures were
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Polynesian peoples are renowned for their advanced sailing technology and for reaching the most remote islands on the planet centuries before the Europeans
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar, a device that uses radio waves to map out what lies below the surface of the ground, have discovered
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There are places where you can literally "feel" you're moving back in time. One such place is Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. Built
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Maya produced some of the most durable lime plasters on Earth, yet how this was achieved remains a secret. With its magnificent
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