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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The latest analysis of the ancient Colchester vase offers evidence that gladiator fights took place in Britain in the late second century A.D.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Old Dongola is today a deserted town in what is now Northern State, Sudan, located on the east bank of the Nile opposite
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some cities only last a century or two, while others last for a thousand years or more. Often, there aren't clear records left
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What would you do if an identical version of yourself followed you wherever you went? A very long time ago, a ghost-like twin
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent
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Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered evidence of horse riding by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans, which were between 4,500
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – About 360 million years ago, in the shallow subtropical waters above what is now the city of Cleveland, an armor-plated fish many
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Armenia have discovered a mysterious Bronze Age tomb that contains a couple that died together and magnificent gold artifacts. Nicknamed
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and the archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, both from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have published
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using modern scanning technology, scientists have located a long, mysterious, never-before-seen tunnel in the Khufu Pyramid in Egypt. Named after its builder, a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While visiting the Tel Lachish National Park in south-central Israel, a hiker and his friend found a 2,500-year-old pottery shard, known as an
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers has analyzed ancient human DNA from several archaeological sites in Andalucía in southern Spain. The study reports on
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans began to spread across Eurasia about 45,000 years ago. Still, previous research showed that the first modern humans that arrived in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales worldwide. Now, researchers in Australia think they may have found evidence
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study by an international and interdisciplinary team headed by University of Freiburg archaeologist Dr. Ralph Araque Gonzalez from the Faculty of Humanities
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Easter Island's large and impressive stone-carved statues have long intrigued scientists and the public in general. Many have long wondered how the ancient
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists who study the origins and evolution of the plague have examined hundreds of ancient human teeth from Denmark, seeking to address longstanding
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland's religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge. A combination of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How could a 3300-year-old story be commemorated and published millennia before televisions, radios, or posts were invented? The Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I provides
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Myths & Legends
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A frightening prophecy, battle with dangerous sea monsters, heroic deeds, and strange encounters with a shape-shifting troll are just some of the many
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –More than 100 years ago, Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Smithsonian Institution was asked to examine strange star-shaped fossils with lobes hailing from
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AncientPages.com - A headline bound to get you up in the morning — a 2,000 year old dildo from ancient Rome has just been discovered. The 16-centimetre wooden phallus
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Wilhelm I Conqueror, also known as "William the Bastard" (ca. 1028 -1087), was King of England and Duke of Normandy. William was the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Britain's oldest shoe has been found on a beach in Kent. The shoe, made of leather, is 3,000 years old and was discovered
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The saying "there is nothing new under the Sun" seems appropriate when we learn that sanitary hardware was invented long ago. Scientists have
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The pre-Hispanic Wari culture Wari flourished from about 500 A.D. to 1000 A.D., in the region of Ayacucho region and stretched over Cusco's
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In their search for silver ore, the Romans established two military camps in the Bad Ems area near Koblenz in the 1st century AD.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A fascinating quest to discover the identity of a prolific early-20th-century Indigenous painter has led a Griffith directed research team to the top
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists know that people have practiced cranial trephination, a medical procedure that involves cutting a hole in the skull, for thousands of years.
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