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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report discovering an "incredibly rare" Roman tomb near London Bridge Station, UK. Last year, archaeologists found very largest Roman mosaics at the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers who discovered a vast network of stone walls along the River Nile in Egypt and Sudan say these
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the site of the A40 Science Transit park & ride at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, have made some interesting discoveries. During
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As an archaeologist, you can expect to find some surprises everywhere. That's what happened during recent excavations on a hill in Tystberga outside
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Kythnos on the Aegean Sea island has long fascinated archaeologists. The site, first inhabited about 10,000 years ago, has some
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers, including a Virginia Commonwealth University professor, has discovered rare prehistoric instruments made from the bones of birds dating back
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Everyone goes to the toilet, but it's not a subject we often discuss. Have you ever wondered how people in the past went
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique hog-shaped pottery item - probably a child's toy approximately 6,000 years ago, was unearthed in east China's Jiangsu Province. The pottery pig
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A fragment of a statue depicting the Greek god Pan, has been unearthed during the excavations in Istanbul’s Saraçhane Archaeological Park. It is a new artifact recently discovered
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It's impossible to say how many ancient shipwrecks can be found throughout the Mediterranean. Many civilizations, such as Egyptians, Phoenicians, Romans, and Greeks,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered that shells were essential to our ancient ancestors on several occasions. Shells are one of the oldest ways humans have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A couple in Denmark found a huge runestone under the floor while renovating the kitchen in their house in the village Mosekær just
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Medieval religious music is often perceived as being simple, and not particularly flashy or lavish. It often had a function that goes beyond
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from Morocco in northwest Africa revealed that food production was introduced by Neolithic European and Levantine
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It was a chance discovery. The piece of wood could have easily gone onto the bonfire or been treated as trash. Luckily, Derek
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Was it once a child's toy or someone's idea of a practical joke? We may never find an answer to this question, but
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists have discovered rare, well-preserved cloth fragments, dwellings, baskets, weaving swords, and much more while examining a site near Rome, Italy. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have discovered the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in York have used 3D scans to study the Roman burial practice of pouring liquid gypsum over the bodies of adults and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists excavating a fortress site in southern Georgia aim to uncover why communities in this area were more resilient than in other parts
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the small village of Thérouanne, located on the river Lys in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The existence of legendary Jomsvikings is one of the greatest unsolved Viking mysteries. They are described in Icelandic Sagas as superheroes and a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The five new archaeological sites have been discovered in the Megalopolis lignite mine in southern Greece contain valuable faunal and cultural remains belonging
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have led the analysis of bracelets found in the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I – the largest and most famous collection of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A tip from the local population had led the archaeologists from Frankfurt to the area near the city of Ibra in Oman, where
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were both innovative and often devised similar surviving techniques independently. Recently, scientists demonstrated Neanderthals invented or developed birch
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at Netherhampton Road, on the edge of Harnham, a southern suburb of Salisbury, England have unearthed a giant Bronze Age barrow
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia's eastern islands in rock art paintings that may provide the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birch tar is the oldest synthetic substance made by early humans, and those humans were in the long past - Neanderthals. But the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stone Age humans may have made extended maritime voyages on the Caspian Sea, according to a new study published in the journal Open Archaeology.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two ancient shipwrecks, most likely dated to the mid-Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), were discovered about 1,500 meters under the sea level in South China Sea,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague—the oldest evidence of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, have unearthed two stunning embalming workshops. During a press conference, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Urnes brooch is beautiful and eye-striking. Archaeologists have unearthed many Urnes-style brooches in Norway, and scientists say this type of jewelry was
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one's role in society belongs in the past. But was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For at least three million years, knapping stone has been practiced by hominin societies large and small, past and present. Thus, understanding knapping,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A research team led by the University of Cambridge say it is the oldest example we have of this diarrhea-causing parasite infecting humans
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) makes a new technological appraisal of a northern gannet bone that displays complex
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have identified, for the first time, the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have unearthed what could be the world's oldest known saddle. The well-preserved soft leather saddle recovered from the tomb of a female
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