Europe Archive
Human Beginnings
AncientPages.com - The period between 50,000 to 40,000 years ago saw a crucial biological and cultural transformation for humans: this was the time when local groups of Neanderthals
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Admired or hated, it is fair to say that no one was indifferent to Alexander the Great, who is today recognized as one
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Featured Stories
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Three metal deposits were extracted by a detectorist inside the site, dated to the Middle Bronze Age 2 (1450- 1300 BC) at Kerouarn, Prat,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first analysis of the Early Neolithic stone burial chamber unearthed in Tiarp, near Falköping in Sweden, is now completed. Archaeologists say the
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Earth Changes
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stone Age people must have been surprised and horrified when the gigantic water waves reaching 20 meters wiped out their dwellings. Some of
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lusatian culture dates back to the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (14th-4th century BC), occupying the broadest range of central Europe.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Lublin Provincial Monuments Conservator has announced a 15 iron weapons that probably belonged to Barbarian tribes who fought the Romans have been
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 200 million years ago, in the Late Triassic, South West England was an archipelago of small islands set in a warm sub-tropical
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Romans loved wine. It is estimated that an average male in the ancient Roman Empire consumed about a liter or more of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Can a tomb that has stood in the same spot for thousands of years suddenly vanish? That is a question many pondered when
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ulfberht swords were famous for their strength, flexibility, and high-tech blades. Viking warriors highly prized these weapons, which were extraordinarily valuable because of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There have always been several ways to prepare meals. Food can be cooked in different pots depending on the meal. Ancient people realized
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When museum inspector and archaeologist Jakob Bonde dug up a 2,000-year-old knife with a runic inscription from a burial ground near Odense on
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Oseberg Ship burial is one of the greatest Viking mysteries. The individuals buried together with the ship are a riddle, and the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time in almost 2,000 years, the public will have an opportunity to see an incredible Roman arm guard. This ancient
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the early 1990s, excavations took place at Huseby-Klev, an early Mesolithic hunter-fisher site on the Swedish west coast, where a piece of
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Places
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Most tourists admire Terracina as a seaside resort. Unfortunately, they do not even imagine the ancient town's historical past and archaeological heritage left by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The site of Beg ar Loued on the island of Molène Finistère, France, makes it possible, for the first time on the European
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Featured Stories
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have examined an unusual Neolithic burial in Southern Italy. The curious archaeological finding poses many questions. Researchers are attempting to determine why
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It often takes patience and time to solve ancient enigmas. Scientists have tried for over a century to decipher a mysterious inscription etched
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have investigated one of the most unusual late-Roman metalware ever discovered in the British Isles. The Knaresborough Hoard was discovered about 1864,
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists participating in the National Grid’s Viking Link project report new fascinating discoveries! The Viking Link’s construction will enable the countries to share
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During archaeological excavations in Tenea, an ancient Greek town near Corinth, built by Trojan prisoners of war, scientists unearthed a wonderful treasure and intriguing
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists were baffled, to say the least, when they discovered an ancient Roman necropolis containing 67 dressed skeletons buried in 57 ornate tombs.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have unearthed an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a peculiar stone disk while investigating an ancient hill fort in Rupinpiccolo, northeastern Italy. The 50 cm in diameter and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists are investigating a rather peculiar Medieval cemetery located in a field not far from Fonmon Castle in Wales, UK. The fortified Medieval
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A centuries-old mystery may finally have been solved. Cerne Abbas Giant, the 180ft (55-meter) tall club-wielding man in Dorset, UK, has long been
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - On 12 September 1901, Denis Peyrony, a local schoolmaster, stepped inside the Font-De-Gaume Cave. He discovered marvelous prehistoric cave paintings that our ancient
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near the village of Offord Cluny in Cambridgeshire have discovered the remains of a man who lived between AD 126–228 during
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - On December 18, 1941, it was forbidden to use the Norwegian flag and its colours in a way that offended national sentiment. The ban was issued by
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Featured Stories
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Italy is a country rich in unique ancient treasures, and there always seems to be something more archaeologists can discover, often in the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the forest steppe northwest of the Black Sea—today the territory of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine—mega-sites of the Trypillia societies emerged
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Last year, archaeologists excavating near Northampton, UK, made an extraordinary discovery. The research team unearthed a magnificent 1,300-year-old necklace made up of at
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