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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Middle East region is important to understand human evolution and migrations but is underrepresented in genomic studies. Whole-genome sequencing efforts around the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In archaeometallurgy, the study of ancient metal, archaeologists have historically taken a top-down approach, meaning that the jewelry, tools, weapons, and other artifacts
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers analyzed human tissues of 29 individuals (26 urn cremations and 3 inhumations) from Szigetszentmiklós-Ürgehegy, one of the largest Middle Bronze Age urn
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists search for clues to identify a mystery horseman after carved relief was uncovered at Roman Vindolanda, Hadrian’s Wall. A beautifully carved sandstone
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have identified remains of a new, previously unknown type of 'Homo' who lived in the region at the Nesher Ramla site side
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of North Florida archaeology team is fairly confident they have located the lost Indigenous Northeast Florida community of Sarabay, a settlement
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Over the last 200 years, Antarctic narratives have been of those carried out by predominantly European male explorers. However, a research project led
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A group of marauding cannibals from South America descended on islands of the Caribbean circa A.D. 800, terrorizing local populations, as was suggested
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations in the Egyptian Eastern Desert delivers proof of emerald mines in Roman Egypt at Wadi Sikait. For over 5000 years, emeralds have
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During the ongoing archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Aigai, archaeologists unearthed a large number of goat bones and objects made from them.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Armenian and German archaeologists discovered an ancient water supply system in Armenia with almost two thousand years of history. The foundations of an
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient slab of limestone, probably engraved about 1,800 years ago was unearthed at the ancient city of Hadrianopolis, located in the Eskipazar district
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Rapanui carvers worked at the behest of the elite ruling class to carve nearly 1,000 Moai because they, and the community at
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 3,500-year-old fragmented skull and femur that probably belonged to the Hittite period were recently unearthed in Sapinuwa (now Çorum) in central Anatolia,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Three wooden coffins have been uncovered in the courtyard of Padiaménopé tomb (TT 33), by an archaeological team led by from the Institut
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A medieval ring from the late 9th to mid 10th century, discovered in the stronghold (a medieval ring-fort) in Grzybowo near Gniezno, a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Inbreeding and population/demographic shifts could have led to Neanderthal extinction, researchers say. Neanderthal extinction could have occurred without environmental pressure or competition with
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 2400 BC and 2200 BC, following the conquests by its founder Sargon of Akkad.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient Byzantine-era church, complete with a floor mosaic and Green inscriptions, was recently unearthed in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel. About 1,500 years
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By studying antique artifacts researchers were able to reveal previously unknown use of yellow colors in ancient Egypt. It has long been known
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - At least 20 ancient wooden coffins have been discovered in the southern city of Luxor, Egypt, according to Egypt's Antiquities Ministry, reports Yahoo. The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations that were carried out at the site of Pyla-Vigla on the southeastern coast of Cyprus, revealed the presence of a previously unknown
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A skull with marks indicating that neurosurgery existed 2,200 years ago, has been unearthed during excavations carried out in the ancient city of Euromus,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ur is one of the world’s oldest cities. What was life like for its inhabitants some 4000 years ago? During this year's season
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists report a discovery of the remains of an intact and astonishingly preserved Early Modern Period (Late 15th –
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient urban complex of Kom el-Dikka has been excavated by Poland’s Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology (CAS since 1960. Polish archaeologists work in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers for the first time applied marine geology techniques at an ancient harbor archaeological site to uncover ancient harbor
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Sofia Globe reports that archaeologists working at the Episcopal Basilica site in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have found a large stone slab,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Thousands of coins dating back to the Roman era could be the work of First Century counterfeiters, researchers say. Archaeologists suspect, that up
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