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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During routine construction works in the Defne district of southern Turkey's Hatay, workers accidentally discovered the remains of a Roman villa and a mosaic
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient bone needles estimated to be 8,200 years old have been unearthed during excavations conducted in the Yeşilova and Yassıtepe mounds of western Turkey's Izmir.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Professor has announced he has deciphered a 3,500-year-old stone tablet discovered in Jerusalem. According to his study, the stone is inscribed with
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are currently exploring a mysterious passageway under the world's longest known cave system. Their mission has been successful so far and the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A perfectly preserved wooden sculpture was recently discovered at the Chan Chan archaeological complex in northern Peru. Wooden sculpture depicting a litter bearer of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed “decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of ‘founder of genetics.’” So concludes
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence the first humans to inhabit the Arctic appeared about 40,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Late Paleolithic.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from Bournemouth University have found the remains of prehistoric people and animal sacrifices in a recently discovered Iron Age settlement in Dorset.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Located not far from the international airport, the Al Wathba region is home to a beautiful oasis-like wetland reserve that is enjoyed by
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists may have unearthed the oldest European human fossil to date. Found at the world-famous Atapuerca prehistoric archaeological site in northern Spain, scientists have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Georgia State University anthropologist Dr. Jeffrey Glover grew up in metro Atlanta, but speaking to him, it sounds like his heart is in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of what they believe was one of the greatest fire temples in Iran during the Sassanid age, named after
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologically excavated stone tools—some as much as 2.6 million years old—have been hailed as evidence for an early cultural heritage in human evolution.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New archaeological techniques have uncovered the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists buried in unmarked graves in the Anglican Parish of St
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of specialists and students led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jodi Magness recently returned to Israel's
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the Stone Age, pendants with potent symbolism were made from animal teeth and bones, adorning clothes or accessories and serving as rattles.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur, hoping to answer some of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An almost intact skeleton of a young warrior has been unearthed during archaeological excavations in the vicinity of Pasohlávky in the Brno-Country District
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from three universities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, found a fossiliferous site lost for more than 70 years near the city
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Skalica district in Slovakia is a well-known archaeological site where scientists have previously unearthed many interesting ancient objects. Credit: M. Sládok, KPÚ
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A well-preserved ancient road discovered by an archaeologist offers evidence that Romans moved much deeper into Wales than historians previously thought. Dr. Mark
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, researchers
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New genetic research from remote islands in the Pacific offers fresh insights into the ancestry and culture of the world's earliest seafarers, including
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 years
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives and modern humans share 99.7% of their DNA. These intriguing beings were widespread across Europe and Western
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Winemaking practices in coastal Italy during the Roman period involved using native grapes for making wine in jars waterproofed with imported tar pitch,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As early as the Neolithic period, pests posed a threat to agricultural yields, as shown by the remains of mice and insects found
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have tried to find the burial site of legendary Viking King Harald Bluetooth for decades. Using satellite remote sensing tools, researchers say
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study of the ancient world of Anatolia—now Turkey—shows how they adapted to climate change but offers a warning for today's climate
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have developed a way to detect the presence of rock art in remote, hard-to-reach areas in Australia's rugged landscapes using Machine Learning
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The earth doesn't give up its secrets easily - not even in the "Cradle of Humankind" in South Africa, where a wealth of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - To ancient history and archaeology buffs it's always a joy to see historical treasures revealed to the public for the first time. To
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A set of exceptional 1,700-year-old Roman mosaics have returned home to Israel, where the collection went on public display for the first time
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Large jars (in Greek, called 'pithoi') were vast storage containers, widely used among the civilizations that inhabited the regions of the Mediterranean Sea in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While workers labored on a large construction site in the Gaza Strip, a security guard noticed a strange piece of stone sticking out
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have recovered as many as 2,550 wooden objects from the Templo Mayor in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While carrying out fieldwork in the Burren lowlands east of Gort in Co Galway, Ireland archaeologist Michael Gibbons discovered a remarkable Bronze Age
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study led by University of Arizona researchers may have solved two mysteries that have long puzzled paleo-climate experts: Where did
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Where exactly did our civilization emerge? Some will say our modern civilization emerged in Mesopotamia. Others will say there are underwater ruins much
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