Europe Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old tomb on the Isles of Scilly has puzzled scientists ever since it was discovered in 1999. Inside the grave was a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - "What an artist dies with me!" The Roman Emperor Nero (AD 54 until AD 68) reportedly uttered those famous last words before his
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers and six students from the University of South Florida have discovered a centuries-old house in exceptional condition during an
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist in Denmark has made an intriguing archaeological find. While being out on a rainy day and searching for anything of
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – In a new study published in JMIRx Bio, one of JMIR Publications’ new overlay journals, scientist Floe Foxon explores whether the Loch
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DNA
AncientPages.com - Nomadic animal-herders from the Eurasian steppe mingled with Copper Age farmers in southeastern Europe centuries earlier than previously thought. In a new study published in Nature, researchers used
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A never-before seen manuscript by Scottish-based artisan Esther Inglis, dating back to the early 1600s, was unveiled at The University of St Andrews
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While investigating the area around Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, England, scientists discovered a remarkable complex of early Neolithic monuments. Archaeologists used advanced radiocarbon
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Norway report they have discovered what seems to be a massive Viking house that has the length of almost two tennis
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Celtiberian tribes of mixed Iberian and Celtic origin inhabited an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries B.C. In the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Five treasure finds, including three hoards and two grave groups of Bronze Age and Roman date, were declared treasure on Tuesday 11th July 2023
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist has discovered a part of a Bronze Age twisted gold torc in a field near Mistley, on the River Stour
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As previously reported on Ancient Pages, the discovery of a mysterious Viking grave in the Swedish Mountains last year was hailed as one
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists excavate, they make the most curious discoveries possible. What was perfectly natural to our ancient ancestors is regarded as unusual today.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The fort of Vindolanda, one of the earliest Roman garrisons, built by the Roman army in England, is one of Europe's most important Roman
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In late June, archaeologists conducted what they thought would be a minor investigation of Herlaugshaugen, a burial mound on the island of Leka
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 150-million-year-old stomach stone has been found in the UK, making it the oldest discovered fossil of its kind. Found by renowned
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from Bournemouth University have discovered a Bronze Age burial site during an excavation of a prehistoric settlement in Dorset. It is
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have ever lived. Unearthed
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As reported last week, a Norwegian couple was extending their home when they suddenly noticed something unusual sticking up from the earth. It
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When Mount Vesuvius erupted on the morning of August 24, 79 A.D., life ended in the ancient city of Pompeii. A great cloud
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The highest status individual in ancient Copper Age society in Iberia, was a woman and not a man as previously thought, according to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some of the largest early prehistoric stone tools in Britain have been discovered by researchers at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. ASE Senior
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wanted to travel back in time and see what life was like in ancient Greece? We can do this by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report a rare discovery of late Roman pewter plates, platters, bowls, and a cup that has been made in Euston, in the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck has been discovered underwater in the southeastern Spanish region of Murcia. Spanish archaeologists are now working hard to recover
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Linmere, Bedfordshire, UK, have discovered 25 monumental pits in what has become a nationally important prehistoric site. The site date
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sometimes, you don't have to go far to make an incredible archeological discovery, but few of us expect to find something of historical
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and
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