Europe Archive
Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One does not have to be a trained archaeologist to find something of great historical value. A young boy discovered a very rare
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Remains of a Roman malting oven and charred spelt grains discovered during excavations in Bedfordshire could be the earliest physical evidence for beer-making
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One never knows where archaeological treasures are hidden. Sometimes the most unanticipated finds can be made in unexpected places. The invention of the
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The main task of this sophisticated robot dog will be to inspect archaeological areas and structures ensuring the ancient site of Pompeii is
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new comprehensive study of ancient human remains taken from a cemetery at a site called the Links of Noltland has revealed surprises
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient people were certainly creative and able to produce weapons in different shapes. This Medieval kidney dagger has been unearthed in Belgium. While
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Isotope analysis of the "bodies in the bog" found at Cramond reveals several crossed a politically divided Scotland, meeting their end hundreds of
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Founded around 1235 the town of Ravenser Odd had about 100 houses, a large market, prison, court, many shops, a sea wall, and
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Before the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D, people in Pompeii lived a comfortable life. At the time of the destruction,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists who have been involved in the renovation of the royal castle of Villers-Cotterêts have stumbled upon a unique ancient treasure. The Château
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An abandoned mausoleum and silver extraction taking place on an industrial scale at a Roman site in rural Kent have left archaeologists with
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A surprising discovery of an ancient sarcophagus and several tombs at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France has been described as a great
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating in the North West of England archaeologists were lucky to unearth a dazzling time capsule of over 5,000 artifacts, dated from
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Granada have discovered several menhir-sculptures on the outer wall of the Los Millares that about 5,000 years ago,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered surprising evidence modern humans successively inhabited the Mandrin Cave in France within an interval of barely a year. Studies of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Something very strange and unexplained happened with European DNA about 5,000 years ago. For reasons totally unknown, the genetic markers of this first
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Knowledge about the Picts is still limited and every discovery related to these people shed new light on the ancient history of Scotland.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How did the first modern humans reach the European continent? A new study shows that the first Homo sapiens could not have reached Europe over
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery was made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The riddle to solve the purpose of Stonehenge continues. It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historical buildings and relics dating back to the Middle Iron Age through to the Roman period have been unearthed by archaeologists working on
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal. This was very
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study reveals how archeologists can determine when a pot was used by Romans as a portable toilet, known as a chamber
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings were not a uniform phenomenon in ancient Scandinavia. They were part of a complex system of plunder economy that existed in Europe
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Viking Gjermundbu helmet is one of the most valuable Viking Age artifacts ever discovered. Over the years, archaeologists have discovered many precious Viking
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A groundbreaking study in prehistoric archaeology at Tel Aviv University provides evidence for high cognitive abilities in early humans who lived 170,000 years
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A previously undiscovered wreck has been found outside of Fjällbacka on the Swedish west coast. Analysis of wood samples shows that it is
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the "Gold Mask of Agamemnon", but
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