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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A remarkable collection of religious items from diverse lands was unearthed during archaeological excavations on the Swedish island of Helgö in 1954. Located
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AncientPages.com - When the eminent Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner first published his essay on “The Dreaming” in 1956, there was increasing scholarly and popular interest in the complexity
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Lancaster University staff and student researchers have discovered evidence of a Romano-Celtic temple under public land near Lancaster Castle - only the second
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient temple complex Medinet Habu has survived in the arid desert climate for thousands of years. But in the 100 years since
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Zhang Heng (A.D. 78 - 139) was one of the world's first scientists to propose that the universe is infinite in space and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - With 800 grams of real gold, the Vindelev treasure is one of the largest treasures unearthed recently. Found by two old friends and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - At an excavation site in northern Mexico, BYU archaeology students and professors recently discovered artifacts that have been buried for 1,000 years, including
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Simon Fraser University scientists say their research on the latest fossil find near Princeton, B.C. is raising questions about how the dispersal
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at Leicester Cathedral have finished the excavation project and reported discovering an ancient Roman shrine and over 1,100 burials. The archaeological project
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Rosetta Stone is not known for its content, but as a lexicon of Egyptian hieroglyphics. The decree inscribed on the stone, however, discusses a violent
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Color plays a huge role in our lives—the hues we wear and decorate with are a way for us to signal who we
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The mystery surrounding the remains of two Anglo Saxons – identified as a man and a woman buried 1,400 years ago in south
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Generally speaking, one can say that Viking boat burials are rare, as most notable burial finds throughout the Viking world are cremations. Archaeologists
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient people understood a smile could brighten the day. That is a least what most think after the announcement a smiling sphinx has
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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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News
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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Archaeology
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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