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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, commonly referred to as King Tut, had several cosmic jewels placed in his tomb when he died, being only
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A site, Horvat Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah, which is linked to one of the most famous biblical stories - the story
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal. This was very
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During routine excavations at the site of Abusir 30 km north of the Giza Plateau, excavators from the Czech Institute of Egyptology at
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study examining the chemical makeup of iron artifacts from the Viking age aims to uncover new insights into where they came
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research released today finds that while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval English heroic or chivalric
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-held consensus that the more populated and "civilized" a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How did Baroque period artists/sculptors go about their craft? For the first time, researchers have performed a forensic anthropological analysis of a marble
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Siberian Valley of the Kings, on the Southern Siberian Steppe of the Russian Federation, is a place of significance to archaeologists who
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of ancient runes is always of great interest to those who study Norse history and culture. Many runic inscriptions have been
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study has confirmed saltwater drowning as the cause of death for a Neolithic man whose remains were found in a mass
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Pakistan report they have unearthed a 1,800-year-old Buddhist stupa and relics in the region of the northwestern province of Khyber
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study reveals how archeologists can determine when a pot was used by Romans as a portable toilet, known as a chamber
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What a person eats influences that person's health, longevity and experience in the world. Identifying the factors that determine people's diets is important
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings were not a uniform phenomenon in ancient Scandinavia. They were part of a complex system of plunder economy that existed in Europe
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Viking Gjermundbu helmet is one of the most valuable Viking Age artifacts ever discovered. Over the years, archaeologists have discovered many precious Viking
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A groundbreaking study in prehistoric archaeology at Tel Aviv University provides evidence for high cognitive abilities in early humans who lived 170,000 years
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A once-in-a-lifetime archival discovery reveals that a rare map hiding behind a false identity in Washington D.C. was the work of William Clark,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A previously undiscovered wreck has been found outside of Fjällbacka on the Swedish west coast. Analysis of wood samples shows that it is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After many years of searching Captain James Cook's famous vessel the HMB Endeavour may now have been found off the coast of the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Indigenous people in Peru had a unique response to the looting and destruction of their ancestors’ graves during the European colonial period,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a 1.5 million-year-old human vertebra in Israel's Jordan Valley. According to a new study, ancient human migration from Africa to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scholars looking for underground water sources on the Eastern Arabian Peninsula for a project funded by the United State Agency for Aid and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The rapid decline of the Hopewell culture about 1,500 years ago might be explained by falling debris from a near-Earth comet that created
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Judean Desert is a unique time capsule for archeologists: thanks to the arid conditions that prevail there, its caves preserve ancient artifacts
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Egyptologists have recovered more than 18,000 inscribed sherds in ancient Athribis—the remains of vessels and jars that served as writing material some 2,000
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This important discovery sheds much light on cacao cultivation, religion, power in the region. For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in recent research. It reveals new radiocarbon dates
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Horses have been intrinsically entwined with human history for the past five millennia, acting as an early means of rapid transport and playing
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists examined the remains of a previously submerged fisher-hunter-gatherer camp on the shores of the Sea of Galilee from around
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards human-like traits is often
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the "Gold Mask of Agamemnon", but
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - King Amenhotep III, also known as Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During his reign, Egypt successfully managed to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists excavating in Aswan, Egypt has unearthed 20 mummies in ancient burial chambers. According to Ahram Online, "The first part
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In Japan there are several interesting megalithic tombs that have long interested scientists. Known as Kofun ("ancient grave"), the structures were "constructed between
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Bronze Age Maikop kurgan is one of the most richly furnished prehistoric burial mounds in the northern Caucasus. Excavations conducted in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique 4,000-year-old board game made of stone has been unearthed by archaeologists in Oman. Marked with ‘playing fields and cup holes’ the discovery
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It's a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon: would you rather be running after tasteless wild berries, or curled up on your couch with
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered the first insights
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