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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Peter Turchin from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues set out to test competing theories about what
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The Vikings got there centuries before, although exactly when has remained unclear. Here,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Now, a new study has brought us closer to understanding some of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 900 years ago a crusader knight who was present in the Holy Land lost a magnificent sword. Today, we can admire this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Unlike many other ancient civilizations, people in believed something unpleasant was awaiting the deceased on the other site. Our knowledge about the Mesopotamian
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The missing link isn't a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It's a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by two researchers in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from Estonia and Italy developed an innovative method by combining neural networks and statistics. Using this newly developed method, they refined the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A Polish archaeologist has made the find of a lifetime discovering a startling 3,000-year-old gold bowl decorated with a sun motif. The ancient
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Traditional assumptions have often seen tropical rainforests as a barrier to early Homo sapiens. However, growing proof shows that humans adapted to and lived
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The necklace, nametag, earrings or uniform you chose to put on this morning might say more than you realize about your social status,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Roman Empire was ruled by 175 men, from Augustus (63 BCE-19 CE) to Constantine XI (1405-53), including the Eastern or Byzantine Empire
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An impressive hoard of silver coins dating to the Hasmonean period (126 BCE) was unearthed several years ago during archaeological excavations conducted by the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists report an archaeological sensation in Yavne, Israel. The Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced archaeologists have unearthed the world's largest wine factory from the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Over time, concrete cracks and crumbles. Well, most concrete cracks and crumbles. Structures built in ancient Rome are still standing, exhibiting remarkable durability despite conditions
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A widely accepted theory of Native American origins coming from Japan has been attacked in a new scientific study, which shows that genetics
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The beautiful ancient marble lions are one of the most eye-catching landmarks of the island of Delos. originally the marble guardian lions were
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The oldest known footprints of pre-humans were found on the Mediterranean island of Crete and are at least six million years old, says
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Several years ago, while analyzing ice core samples from Antarctica's James Ross Island, scientists Joe McConnell, Ph.D., and Nathan Chellman, Ph.D., from DRI,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New analysis of ancient writings suggests that sailors from the Italian hometown of Christopher Columbus knew of America 150 years before its renowned
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scholars at NC State University has recreated the sights and sounds of St. Paul's Cathedral and its environs in 1620s
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - English mathematician, occultist, astrologer, astronomer John Dee was one of the most learned men of his time. He lived when people were in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Tomb of Nestor's Cup, a famous burial in Italy, contains not one deceased individual, but several, according to a new study. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory, known as the Acheulean, appears more than 1.5 million years ago in Africa and 1.2 million
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a recent announcement Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities told the press several magnificent ancient Egyptian artifacts will be sent on an
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Built on a vast plain surrounded by deep valleys and canyons the ancient city of Blandus was once a was a Roman episcopal
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As several previous archaeological excavations have proved there is no doubt the ancient Hittite Empire left a rich historical legacy for future generations.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Why did some ancient Khmer and Mesoamerican cities collapse between 900-1500CE, while their rural surrounds continued to prosper? Intentional adaptation to climate changed
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Magnesia, located in the western province of Aydın’s Germencik district, have brought to light the entrance gate of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in India have come across a 2000-year-old Mauryan-era brick platform that may provide scientists with valuable information about the lost Ashoka
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sustainability is a 21st century buzzword, but a new interdisciplinary study shows that some communities have been conducting sustainable practices for at least
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How should we relate to the traditional historiography on ancient Sicily? The prevailing view has been that the indigenous population had neither territory,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have been excavating the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in modern-day Guatemala, since the 1950s—and thanks to those many decades
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have unearthed several interesting artifacts that were used in religious rituals for goddess Hathor. The ancient tools were discovered
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Etruscan civilization, which flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy, has intrigued scholars for millennia. With remarkable metallurgical skills and a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Max Planck
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Already in the Bronze Age, pastoralists covered long distances across the Eurasian steppes - presumably thanks to their consumption of milk. The Yamnaya,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have studied how ancient people responded to catastrophic natural events and discovered ancient Maya people used volcanic ash to build some of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient rulers had one thing in common with political leaders today - they were eager to brand themselves. Archaeologists have discovered Maya rulers
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3,600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant. Located on high
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Music is an intrinsic expression of cultural diversity and a fundamental element of identity, ritual symbolism, and daily social interaction. The study of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team describes ancient hand and footprints made deliberately which they argue represent art. Hand shapes are commonly found in prehistoric caves, usually,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient DNA extracted from human bones has rewritten early Japanese history by underlining that modern day populations in Japan have a tripartite genetic
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This summer, a tomb embedded in the rock by the main entrance to the San Tirso and San Bernabé Hermitage situated in the
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