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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The 1,000-year-old Viking Weaver's sword is a true archaeological treasure. The sword is a little over 30 cm in length and made of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at Tabba Matouh in west Alexandria, Egypt have unearthed an ancient workshop dating back to the Roman era. This was a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In March this year, scientists made a surprising discovery of an ancient sarcophagus and several tombs at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Bamboo Annals or Zhushu Jinian in Mandarin are a valuable source for the history and chronology of ancient China spanning ca. 2400
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the first time in Australia, archaeobotany has been used by researchers from The University of Western Australia to examine charcoal from ancient
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating in Guatemala archaeologists discovered a glyph representing a day called "7 Deer" on mural fragments dating from the third century B.C
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has found clear evidence for a link between astronomically-driven climate change and human evolution. According to the new
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Team Secrets of the Ice has been searching for clues about the past in the Norwegian mountains for 15 years, and during this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavation on a sacred site in the Pilbara has found proof Aboriginal people lived in the region during the last Ice Age.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians have long tried to unravel a pre-Columbian mystery: who actually discovered the Caribbean? Clues to solving this ancient riddle may
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study challenges the conventional theory that the transition from foraging to farming drove the development of complex, hierarchical societies by creating
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The emergence and spread of agriculture in the Neolithic had a revolutionary impact on the development of human society, and it provided a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new Viking Age ship has been discovered by archaeologists in Norway during a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey. This exciting find reveals a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists report an archaeological breakthrough. The long-lost tomb of legendary 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus has finally been discovered! Still, one problem with his
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A combined study of genetics and skeletal remains shows that the switch from primarily hunting, gathering, and foraging to farming about 12,000 years
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After the Neolithic, European populations showed an increase in height and intelligence, reduced skin pigmentation and increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In one of the first studies of its kind, Australian scientists have investigated the health and economic status of a group of migrant
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient human remains unearthed in the Bacho Kiro cave (in present-day Bulgaria) and recently genetically described were surprisingly reported to be more closely related
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered evidence that a major earthquake struck Chile's coast about 3,800 years ago, triggering a tsunami that caused devastation along 1,000
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient giant stone spheres in Costa Rica in the Diquís Delta, in southern Costa Rica, are considered unique examples of the complex
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have announced a surprising discovery of an ancient Roman mercenary buried with his sword and his military regalia. The skeleton was unearthed
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique and completely intact 1,300-year-old Pala period idol has been found in a pond close to the ancient Nalanda University ruins, once
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Covering an area of 500,000 square miles, the Gobi Desert stretches across huge portions of both Mongolia and China. The Gobi (from Mongolian gobi,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists report an unusual burial practice has been discovered during an excavation in Slovakia. Headless skeletons were discovered by archaeologists from the Collaborative
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Remains of a Roman malting oven and charred spelt grains discovered during excavations in Bedfordshire could be the earliest physical evidence for beer-making
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating near the ancient city of Uruk in Iraq, archaeologists successfully uncovered a very fragile, unique, well-preserved 4,000-year-old boat. According to the Sumerian
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A skull discovered in modern-day Alabama has the potential to re-write the ancient history of skull surgery in North America. Until now, it
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One never knows where archaeological treasures are hidden. Sometimes the most unanticipated finds can be made in unexpected places. The invention of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While examining the sides of 15 ceramic jars, used for wine and olive oil storage in two buildings in the City of David,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neandertals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, but many details of their extinction remain unclear. To elucidate the situation, it is useful to explore
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered as many as 65 ancient jars made of sandstone in India. Some of these jars are giant and researchers suspect
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient people were certainly creative and able to produce weapons in different shapes. This Medieval kidney dagger has been unearthed in Belgium. While
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Sican culture, also referred to as the Lambayeque culture lived in what is now the north coast of Peru between about 750
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Founded by Alexander the Great the ancient city of Bazira was long, but its ruins were located in 2019. The city was established
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Beautiful Machu Picchu has not given up all its ancient secrets, at least not yet. There is still much to learn about this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It was just an ordinary working day and ancient treasure hunting was not part of the farmer’s agenda, but his day turned out
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scent has always been an integral component of the human experience, but up until now, the past has remained largely odorless. Most scents
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Isotope analysis of the "bodies in the bog" found at Cramond reveals several crossed a politically divided Scotland, meeting their end hundreds of
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Conny Waters - AncientPahes.com - The never-ending debate about when the first humans reached North America continues. This time an archeologist says there is evidence humans reached the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have announced the discovery of a rare ancient tablet that has the potential to re-write history. The tiny tablet is older than
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