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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists report they have discovered the remains of an ancient sunken ship at a site in the Mediterranean Sea, roughly 650 meters
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Earlier this year, a massive and horrifying earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. Almost 60,000 people died in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In February 2022, the journal Scientific Reports published a paper with the claim that a comet exploded over what is now Cincinnati around
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Around 150 so-called circular enclosures are known from the Central and Eastern European Middle Neolithic (first half of the 5th millennium BCE). Only a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures used so-called 'magical mirrors' to ward off evil forces. The belief in the power of the Evil Eye goes thousands
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study has nuanced the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age and how certain groups of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A Roman road network that spanned Devon and Cornwall and connected significant settlements with military forts across the two counties as well as
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Coal miners have discovered remnants of a Roman ship in Serbia. The find occurred when mining works were carried out in the Drmno
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD is currently being exposed in the City of David, Jerusalem Walls National
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When excavating in the La Noguera region of the Pyrenean foothills, Spain scientists discovered bony remains of a 14,000-year-old skeleton of a small
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A rare 2,500-year-old marble disc, designed to protect ancient ships and ward off the evil eye, was discovered by a lifeguard diving at
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One of the first finds in new excavation reveals a glimpse of Roman life at Milecastle 46 on Hadrian’s Wall. Steelyard beam. Image
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While 21st-century water companies struggle to maintain clean, fresh supplies, a new study reveals that, some 2,000 years ago, Roman water engineers were
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hailed as a sensation find, researchers report they have discovered the official entrance to an Ice Age cave near Engen, Germany, that nobody
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early colonial settlers likely survived the harsh frontier conditions of 17th-century Delaware because they banded as family units to work alongside enslaved African
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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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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography "Moon and Rainbow" in which he recounted his ancestors' stories. Among them
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During a search for artifacts made of meteoritic iron, archaeologists accidentally found a Bronze Age arrowhead stored in the Bern History Museum’s collection.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Exeter, UK, have made several intriguing finds this season. For the first time in 150 years, scientists have the opportunity
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists discovered the ancient figurine, they assumed it was a horse, but this is not the case. Scientists have now uncovered a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary Medieval sundial has been discovered in the old town of Marburg, Germany. Students at Marburg University had been excavating the site
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists found a curious ancient artifact while excavating in a cave in Poggio Nativo, Lazio, Italy. The object in question has been described
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers analyzed and reconstructed the destruction layer excavated within the rooms of a two-story building in Jerusalem that was occupied until the city's
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old tomb on the Isles of Scilly has puzzled scientists ever since it was discovered in 1999. Inside the grave was a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - "What an artist dies with me!" The Roman Emperor Nero (AD 54 until AD 68) reportedly uttered those famous last words before his
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Neolithic lifestyle, based on farming instead of hunting and gathering, emerged in the Near East around 12,000 years ago and contributed profoundly
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers and six students from the University of South Florida have discovered a centuries-old house in exceptional condition during an
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist in Denmark has made an intriguing archaeological find. While being out on a rainy day and searching for anything of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Jakarta … San Francisco … Shanghai … Phoenix … Houston. These major cities and others around the globe have many similarities, but they
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Earthen and shell mounds built hundreds of years ago by Indigenous people in the Mississippi River Delta contribute to biodiversity and the area's
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - After 20 years of above-ground surveys, archaeologists have excavated the famous Iron Age site of Němčice and confirmed the presence of the earliest
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research has confirmed that the commonly repeated statement that the illicit antiquities trade is the third largest illicit trade in the world
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While investigating the area around Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, England, scientists discovered a remarkable complex of early Neolithic monuments. Archaeologists used advanced radiocarbon
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of Swiss and Greek archaeologists recently completed the third season of excavations on the wreck of Antikythera. The expedition, which took
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers have developed a model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Norway report they have discovered what seems to be a massive Viking house that has the length of almost two tennis
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists and environmental researchers have been exploring early Polynesian presence on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Subantarctic Islands. University of Canterbury Dr
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human migrations and individual mobility played a bigger role in prehistory than previously anticipated. With the movement
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a new light on early humans as woodworking masters, according to a new study. State-of-the-art analysis of
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