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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It happens every now and then that Viking swords are discovered but this finding is unique! As scientists ask - "What are the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Edinburgh have discovered more than 100 Iron Age settlements in south-west Scotland that date from the time of Roman occupation. The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Maize has always been the most important food crop in the Maya. According to the ancient creation myth of the Maya people, the gods
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using the latest scientific methods, researchers want to solve a great mystery of human evolution: Why are we the only humans left? Two
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A cave known as Cueva de Ardales or the so-called Trinidad Grund and located in southern Spain was used by ancient humans as
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first known Roman military amphitheater has been discovered by archaeologists excavating at the base of the Legio VI Ferrata Roman Legion near
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An important discovery has been made by archaeologists working at the Chavín de Huántar archaeological site in Peru. Scientists report the discovery of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It has happened in the past that archaeological discoveries have confirmed events described in Norse Sagas. We know for example that Norse Sagas
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Once again, archaeologists report they have discovered a new trove consisting of magnificent ancient Egyptian artifacts. The ancient objects were unearthed at the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists has uncovered a 3,400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city once located on the Tigris River. The settlement emerged
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have finished the first excavations of the magnificent Gjellestad Viking ship burial in Norway and scientists have presented some of the most
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While excavating on a construction site of what will become an industrial park near Merida, on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula archaeologists have uncovered the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Nestled in the picturesque Northumberland countryside, Vindolanda with its fort and settlement is a treasure trove of everyday life during the Roman occupation
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists are curious and want to open an 830-million-year-old rock crystal that contains ancient microorganisms that may still be alive. To some, this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hadrian's Wall, also known as Picts' Wall, Vallum Hadriani (in Latin), or simply the Roman Wall, is one of the most impressive Roman
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first successfully sequenced human genome from an individual who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - More than 20 years ago, Dr. Heiko Prümers from the German Archaeological Institute and Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt from the University of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent's earliest humans consumed the eggs of a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Oral hygiene was important to the Maya who had remarkable dental skills. Scientists have discovered that the ancient Maya came with a special
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Uncovering the past of historically under-represented communities sometimes means having to do a little digging, through newspapers, archives and even the ground. A
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered that humans domesticated cattle around 10,000 years ago in the Central Nile region in today's Sudan. The recent study conducted by
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During an archaeological survey of Castilly Henge, near Bodmin scientists uncovered a previously unknown stone circle inside a Cornwall scheduled monument. The remarkable and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study carried out in the area around the Pego-Oliva Marshland Natural Park, between Valencia and Alicante, reveals how the rise in sea
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Trinity scientists, along with international colleagues, have explored the importance of sea travel in prehistory by examining the genomes of ancient Maltese humans
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique compound bow from the Bronze Age nearly 2 meters tall was reconstructed from authentic materials by SUSU specialists as part of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations led by Wyoming's state archaeologist and involving University of Wyoming researchers have confirmed that an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One day more than 3,000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As early as 9,500 years ago, people in Europe used slash-and-burn methods to make land usable for agriculture. This is shown by environmental
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historian Prof. Tamar Herzig, Vice Dean for Research at Entin Faculty of Humanities, exposed previously unknown evidence of organized gang rape of a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Denisovans are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. These ancient humans
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - From the Middle Bronze Age, Egypt played a crucial role in the appearance of calcite-alabaster artifacts in Israel, and the development of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time in modern history, we are now able to see the colorfully detailed inscriptions on the ceilings and walls at
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Aigai, located in the Yunusemre district, is one of the 12 Aiol cities in Western Anatolia and has a long and fascinating history of 2,800
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ship Mentor belonged to Lord Elgin. It sank off Kythera Island on September 15, 1802. The ship is historical, and archaeologists who
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neo-Assyrian examples have been rare which is why this discovery is so significant and offers much to investigate. Some years ago, looters broke
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists excavating in Aleria-Lamajone (Corsica), France has unearthed a magnificent Etruscan underground burial and an ancient Roman necropolis. As explained
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Experts have described the recent archaeological find in Hertfordshire, the UK as a 'once in a lifetime discovery'. Archaeologists working at the site
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The movement of herders and livestock into the eastern steppe is of great interest to researchers, but few scholars have linked the introduction
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