Europe Archive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Roman Empire relied on a network of cities that played a pivotal role in its domain's administration, social organization, and economy.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists admit it's a race against time if we want to save the precious and submerged Stone Age cave art few have ever
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, one of the most extraordinary swords was discovered in a Viking burial ground in Langeid, Bygland, Setesdal, in southern Norway.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is scientific evidence dogs were domesticated between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago. Dogs are our beloved pets and they have been our
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It happens every now and then that Viking swords are discovered but this finding is unique! As scientists ask - "What are the
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AncientPages.com - Ancient historians loved to write about warfare and famous battles. While these millennia-old stories still feed modern imaginations – Homer’s “Iliad” provides the plot for the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It has happened in the past that archaeological discoveries have confirmed events described in Norse Sagas. We know for example that Norse Sagas
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - In the second episode of the TV show Lego Masters, contestants were asked to build a castle — then watch it be destroyed by a bowling ball.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Nestled in the picturesque Northumberland countryside, Vindolanda with its fort and settlement is a treasure trove of everyday life during the Roman occupation
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hadrian's Wall, also known as Picts' Wall, Vallum Hadriani (in Latin), or simply the Roman Wall, is one of the most impressive Roman
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first successfully sequenced human genome from an individual who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
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AncientPages.com - Domestic violence was endemic in the Roman world. Rome was a slave-owning, patriarchal, militarized culture in which violence (potential and actual) signaled power and control. Tragically,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During an archaeological survey of Castilly Henge, near Bodmin scientists uncovered a previously unknown stone circle inside a Cornwall scheduled monument. The remarkable and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Trinity scientists, along with international colleagues, have explored the importance of sea travel in prehistory by examining the genomes of ancient Maltese humans
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One day more than 3,000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As early as 9,500 years ago, people in Europe used slash-and-burn methods to make land usable for agriculture. This is shown by environmental
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historian Prof. Tamar Herzig, Vice Dean for Research at Entin Faculty of Humanities, exposed previously unknown evidence of organized gang rape of a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In ancient times, people saw the world in a very different way. This collection of maps must be one of the strangest representations
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Today, the town of Cerveteri is particularly famous for the numerous Etruscan cemeteries located on the surrounding hills. Etruscan necropolis Cerveteri Rome Province,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists excavating in Aleria-Lamajone (Corsica), France has unearthed a magnificent Etruscan underground burial and an ancient Roman necropolis. As explained
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An interesting archaeological discovery shedding light on Viking presence in Estonia has been reported by archaeologists excavating in the country's capital Tallinn. Archeologists
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A few years ago, a unique archaeological wealth of La Almoloya site, located in Pliego, Murcia, was revealed by archaeologists in Spain. Golden
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - After three years of work a statue of famous Anglo-Norman knight William Marshal was unveiled on May 7, in Pembroke, Wales, but not
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In many cases, the world below us is just as fascinating as the ground we walk on. Across Europe, there is a hidden,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This must be a find of a lifetime! Sammy Shelton, a six-year-old boy in Uk went out looking for shells on Bawdsey Beach
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - According to a very controversial theory, our modern calendar is wrong because it misses 297 years. A German calendar skeptic claims he has
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europe – revealing that
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The huge Neolithic necropolis in Fleury-sur-Orne, Normandy, France is the resting place for a group of selected individuals who were buried in impressively
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While upgrading water supplies in Andalucia, southern Spain, workers made an unexpected discovery when they came across a well-preserved necropolis of subterranean limestone
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in the UK have made many fascinating discoveries while excavating at a site known as Field 44 near the village of Tempsford
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Prehistoric Cycladic figurines carved in marble are very ancient artifacts that appeared in the Cycladic society, many centuries before the arising of the famous Minoan Civilization.
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 700-year-old, well-preserved ship found at a construction site in the Estonian capital Tallinn on the shores of the Baltic Sea is hailed
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study reveals the scale of parasitic worm infections in Britain from the Prehistoric to the early Victorian periods. This type of
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Zteve T Evans - AncientPages.com - Cornwall, the uttermost southwestern peninsula of England, has a long, fascinating history absolutely brimming with folklore, legends, and traditions. Ancient monuments scatter the
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