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AncientPages.com - Twelve skeletons have been found in a large, 2,000-year-old tomb directly in front of the Khazneh (“Treasury”) in the city of Petra in Jordan. Alongside them, excavators
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A significant archaeological discovery has been made in the renowned lost city of Petra, Jordan. Researchers have uncovered a rare, ancient underground tomb
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a Neolithic ornate necklace in a child's grave in Jordan. According to a new study, this single accessory provides new
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford's School of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at the University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology have used satellite imagery to identify and map over 350 monumental hunting structures known
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a unique 9,00-year-old shrine in the Jordan Desert. According to scientists the shrine "sheds an entirely new light on the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Britain has still not returned thirty Stone Age statues that were taken for restoration in 1990. According to Daifallah Hdeithat, the head of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It may not be possible to trace the game of chess with absolute certainty, but the popularity of this board game goes back thousands
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The evidence gathered from Petra, the Negev Desert and Dead Sea region proved the presence of Nabataean culture long after 2nd century AD and
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 1,800-Year-old painted tomb has been unearthed by archaeologists from the Department of Antiquities and the discovery that was made at the ancient site of Capitolias in
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Using Google Earth satellite images, researchers from the University of Western Australia have discovered four hundred strange formations located in west-central part of Saudi Arabia. In the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - During excavations in the ruins of Machaerus, a citadel built by King Herod on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, a team of Hungarian archaeologists has
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The dead were not buried until they had decomposed to skeletal remains. The skeletons were then dismantled and bones of similar types were buried together, say Danish
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - The Citadel of Machaerus - a fortified hilltop palace - was built upon a conical peak of basalt, located in Jordan fifteen miles (24 km) southeast of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists led by Prof. Steve Collins has reportedly unearthed the ruins of the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which according to the Bible
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