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AncientPages.com - If you’ve already spend hours shoveling snow this year, you may be dismayed to realize that technically, it’s not yet winter. According to the astronomical definition,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Arminghall Henge in Norwich, UK was first seen from the air in 1929, and was excavated in 1935. The 5,000-year-old timber circle is
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Spread across vast distances, the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean have been believed to have been populated by humans in two distinct
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient cotton fibers dating back 7,000 years, have been discovered by Israeli researchers, at the northern University of Haifa (UH during archaeological excavations
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Found in 1921 near the village of Egtved, the remains of a girl who lived around 1370 B.C. are one of the best-known
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using drones, archaeologists from Japan’s Yamagata University have discovered 168 previously undocumented geoglyphs on the Pampas de Juman in the Nazca Desert in
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Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at Tell El-Amarna necropolis in Minya governorate in Upper Egypt have unearthed a burial containing magnificent ancient jewelry. The English Egyptian archaeological
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, Hvergelmir (located in Niflheim) is a "bubbling boiling spring." According to the Prose Edda, the spring is one of the three
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AncientPages.com - A village with the Old English name "Filthy Pool" wasn't an auspicious location to discover one of the most spectacular burials of the Anglo Saxon period.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Athribis in the Nile Delta in Egypt was once an. important political center. Archaeological excavations at the site have
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Human bipedalism—walking upright on two legs—may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought, according to a new study
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While excavating a Bronze age burial mound in 1802 near Upton Lovell in Wiltshire, UK, scientists discovered many curious ancient objects, but they
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Roman settlement at the site of Wingfield Place development on Freemen’s Way in Deal, UK. Among the ancient
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When prehistoric people re-sharpened cutting tools 300,000 years ago, they dropped tiny chips of flint—which today yield evidence of how wood was processed
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by an Indian Ph.D. student at
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the evolution of humans, a University of Otago study has found. Lead
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An elusive ancestor of the yeast species used in modern lager beer has, for the first time, been found in Europe growing in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This summer, a group of climbers made an interesting discovery, but only now have experts confirmed their incredible findings. In July, four mountaineers,
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Changes in Earth's orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 4,500 years ago, Neolithic toolmakers used this site like a giant whetstone to polish axes. The large sandstone was discovered by archaeologists
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Frigg is an early European goddess and a prominent mythological figure in Norse mythology. In Norse beliefs, she was the personification of the sky,
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Archaeoastronomy
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Without clocks or modern tools, ancient Mexicans watched the sun to maintain a farming calendar that precisely tracked seasons and even adjusted for
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AncientPages.com - When did humans first begin to speak, which speech sounds were uttered first, and when did language evolve from those humble beginnings? These questions have long
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Vikings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have shown how three vortices can be linked in a way that prevents them from being dismantled. The structure of the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists excavating in the archaeological zone of Oxkintok, about 55 kilometers south of Mérida, Mexico, have unearthed an intriguing ancient statue of a
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - About 1,000 years ago, legendary King Harald Bluetooth built several impressive Viking fortresses. Today, little remains of these once-powerful ancient buildings, but reconstructions
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The problem with researching Iceland's ancient history is the lack of written sources. Most scholars say Iceland was discovered by Norse people who
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An archaeologist says he has made an astonishing discovery and can offer evidence extinct human species used fire for both light and cooking
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