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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Marie Antoinette is today known as the French Queen executed by the guillotine during the French Revolution. Much has been said and written
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A Polish archaeologist has made the find of a lifetime discovering a startling 3,000-year-old gold bowl decorated with a sun motif. The ancient
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Like most ancient castles in Wales, the Medieval castle Castell Dinas Bran is rich in history and surrounded by a flair of mysticism.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Over time, concrete cracks and crumbles. Well, most concrete cracks and crumbles. Structures built in ancient Rome are still standing, exhibiting remarkable durability despite conditions
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The oldest known footprints of pre-humans were found on the Mediterranean island of Crete and are at least six million years old, says
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scholars at NC State University has recreated the sights and sounds of St. Paul's Cathedral and its environs in 1620s
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Tomb of Nestor's Cup, a famous burial in Italy, contains not one deceased individual, but several, according to a new study. The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Like in most ancient cultures, dance was important to people in ancient Greece. Dance was a way to express emotions, tell stories, and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How should we relate to the traditional historiography on ancient Sicily? The prevailing view has been that the indigenous population had neither territory,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international group of scientists has studied a genome sequence of a unique individual known as the Segorbe giant and his DNA reveals
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Max Planck
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - "In Rodrigo Diaz's lifetime there were in Spain and elsewhere many lords, commanders or bosses. In his day he was not unique but
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Johann Gutenberg’s brilliant printing press changed Europe’s history. When the first printed books started to appear in Europe, people were excited. Thousands of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This summer, a tomb embedded in the rock by the main entrance to the San Tirso and San Bernabé Hermitage situated in the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During the middle of the sixth century CE a dramatic transformation began in how the people of western Europe buried their dead. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that "stressed poetry," the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Understanding the environmental conditions under which early humans dispersed out of Africa is important for understanding the factors that affected human evolution. This
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is still difficult to determine just how advanced the Neanderthals were but our extinct causing were much more sophisticated than previously thought.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from the Uppsala University have uncovered the remains of an Iron Age warrior in Sweden. The find made during excavations in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists in Denmark say they have struck gold, they do really mean it! One of the biggest gold treasures ever discovered in
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pillars of victory, also known as memorial columns, were occasionally erected to memorize the triumphs of victorious achievements of an emperor. They were
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many places are associated with strange legends telling people to use supernatural power or get help from dark forces to accomplish something. In
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the middle of the sixth century AD, traditional furnished burial changed to (those with grave goods to include jewelry, dress accessories, tools,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Some historical mysteries cannot be easily solved. One of them involves King William II who died under mysterious circumstances. Historians are still debating what
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Anchor Church Caves in the United Kingdom have long held a secret, but no one knew it, at least not until now.
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