Europe Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old fresco discovered on the wall of a house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii depicts what could be described as
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A large Roman marble head has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Nemi in the Lazio region of Italy 30 km (19
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Conny Waters - AncientPages - People have long believed in the existence of vampires. Ancient people were convinced these scary blood-sucking creatures were extremely dangerous. Accounts of vampires
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Tormod Fjeld was hiking with his family in the Moss area when they stopped for a rest break near a boulder, Viken County
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dutch archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable ancient structure that has been nicknamed the Stonehenge of the Netherlands". Scientists say the intriguing 4,000-year-old structure
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncienyPages.com - Measuring just 6 centimeters wide and 8 centimeters long, the magnitude and exceptionality of the discovery has left the European archaeological community flabbergasted.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Mikołajki, Poland, have made a surprising discovery. Researchers announced they had encountered an unusual archaeological object providing traces of prehistoric
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old skull unearthed in a tomb may offer evidence ancient Romans were the first to breed dogs with flat faces. Examination of
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton (UK) studying a British dinosaur tooth have concluded that several distinct groups of spinosaurs -- dinosaurs with
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first side-necked turtle ever to be found in the U.K. has been discovered by an amateur fossil collector and paleontologists at the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the site of the A40 Science Transit park & ride at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, have made some interesting discoveries. During
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As an archaeologist, you can expect to find some surprises everywhere. That's what happened during recent excavations on a hill in Tystberga outside
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Kythnos on the Aegean Sea island has long fascinated archaeologists. The site, first inhabited about 10,000 years ago, has some
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered that shells were essential to our ancient ancestors on several occasions. Shells are one of the oldest ways humans have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A couple in Denmark found a huge runestone under the floor while renovating the kitchen in their house in the village Mosekær just
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It was a chance discovery. The piece of wood could have easily gone onto the bonfire or been treated as trash. Luckily, Derek
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - A dinosaur specimen from Castellón, Spain represents a new proposed species of spinosaurid, reports a paper published in Scientific Reports. The identification of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Was it once a child's toy or someone's idea of a practical joke? We may never find an answer to this question, but
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists have discovered rare, well-preserved cloth fragments, dwellings, baskets, weaving swords, and much more while examining a site near Rome, Italy. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in York have used 3D scans to study the Roman burial practice of pouring liquid gypsum over the bodies of adults and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the small village of Thérouanne, located on the river Lys in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at Netherhampton Road, on the edge of Harnham, a southern suburb of Salisbury, England have unearthed a giant Bronze Age barrow
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. Raucous texts—mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague—the oldest evidence of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Urnes brooch is beautiful and eye-striking. Archaeologists have unearthed many Urnes-style brooches in Norway, and scientists say this type of jewelry was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one's role in society belongs in the past. But was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Not so long ago, the public was invited to participate in the Carlisle Roman bath excavation. The project, run by Wardell Armstrong, Cumberland
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is not the first time Betej Gabriel, an amateur archaeologist from Gorj in Romania, has made an incredible find using his metal
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many fascinating archaeological findings have been made in Sweden, but when it comes to petroglyphs, this is one of the biggest discoveries in
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