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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During archaeological excavations carried out in Ga'ab El Lagia Church in Sudan, archaeologists discovered 1,000 years old paintings depicting the Virgin Mary with
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A remarkable musical discovery was made in the silty mud on the Vindolanda excavations this year. An extremely rare copper alloy cornu mouthpiece, dated
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Slovak-German team of archaeologists researching one of the largest Central European Stone Age settlements in Vráble in western Slovakia, have unearthed the remains of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An excavation team consisting of students and scientists from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AuTH) has made a stunning discovery in Philippi, a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPagers.com - Researchers from Tel Aviv University collected samples of charcoal used as fuel for metallurgical furnaces in the Timna Valley, located in Israel's southern
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It would seem ancient Maya cities in Mesoamerica are as beautiful as dangerous. There is solid evidence that beneath the soil surface of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It may have been a storm or something else, but scientists now know a ship loaded with cargo from all over the Mediterranean
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Palmyra has gripped public imagination since its picturesque ruins were "rediscovered" in the seventeenth century by western travelers. The most legendary story
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Built more than a thousand years before the Aztecs arrived in central Mexico, Teotihuacan was once one of the largest cities in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have shed light on the story behind a large sandstone rock art site in Central Queensland that features seven star-like designs, large
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Almost 300 years after the Romans left, scholars like Bede wrote about the Angles and the Saxons and their migrations to the British
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the field of human genetics, the story of Mother Eve is a familiar one. It describes how all living humans descend from one
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Excavations in Saqqara, Giza in Egypt continue to be successful. This time the science team unearthed the sarcophagus of King Ramses II's head
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the largest volcanic eruptions in the Holocene epoch—as measured by the volume of material ejected—occurred on the Greek island of Santorini,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have once again found people have used evidence opium for thousands of years. While examining several Late Bronze Age graves in the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from UP Diliman (UPD) and the National Museum, and leaders and members of the indigenous Pala’wan community unearthed new discoveries dating back
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A man-made square burial cave dated to the time of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II and associated with the Biblical Exodus from Egypt
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While excavating at fort St. Joseph in Michigan, an archaeology student unearthed a beautiful, unique heart-shaped Jesuit ring. The intact ring has been
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Tiny glass beads discovered in mountain caves about 25 miles from the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern-central Africa provide evidence that European
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New excavations have coaxed more secrets from Gribshunden, the flagship of the Danish-Norwegian King Hans which mysteriously sank in 1495 off the coast
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Conny Waters -– AncientPages.com - Queen Nefertiti was the most powerful woman of her time and one of ancient Egypt's most mysterious historical people. There is still much
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mexican officials has just announced the discovery of an ancient archaeological Maya site along the route of the Maya Train railroad in Quintana
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart—the oldest ever found—alongside a separate fossilized stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating at Giza's Saqqara necropolis, archaeologists made a surprising discovery. A team of Egyptian archaeologists headed by Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A human skeleton that is believed to be over 8,000 years old has been discovered by speleologist and archaeologist Octavio del Río and diver
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Tiny crystals in ancient animal dung serve as key evidence in a new analysis suggesting the possibility that hunter-gatherers at Abu Hureyra, Syria,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Georgia have found a 1.8-million-year-old tooth belonging to an early species of human. "The tooth was discovered near the village of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists are investigating a puzzling 7,000-year.old circular structure discovered in Vinoř, an area on the outskirts of Prague, Czech Republic. The purpose of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - From small coins to tiny pieces of ceramic and even clumps of soil, Seth Bernard and a group of graduate students from the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 5,000-year-old container, discovered behind a butcher's shop, is being exhibited at Kirkcaldy Galleries having been recently conserved by experts. Conservation has been
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For 31 years, archaeologists have conducted excavation and restoration works in the ruins of the Ayanis Castle. The castle has a size of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During excavations at the ancient site of Troy, a team of archaeologists unearthed the remains of a 3,700-year-old domed oven that clearly show links
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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 - Famous for the natural beauty and stunning wildlife, the beautiful Isle of Mull in Scotland is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of archaeologists study 3,000 years old settlement in Cyprus, one of the most important Bronze Age settlements in the region.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of Britain's most impressive ancient Roman ruins is Hadrian's Wall. Also known as the Picts' Wall, the massive structure prevented raiders from
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We stand in the open fields of Spanish Lookout, a modernized Mennonite farming community in Central Belize, looking at what remains of ancestral
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How frequent was violence in prehistoric human societies? One way to measure this is to look for trauma in prehistoric human remains. For
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary discovery was made in the city of Jerusalem. A team of archaeologists unearthed an assemblage of ivory plaques from the First
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have uncovered a skeleton of a person who lived 31,000 years ago. According to a new study, the individual is missing its
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique document was returned to Israel. The document opens with the words: “To Ishmael send….” Whilst the text does not refer to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic
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