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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Christopher Columbus' accounts of the Caribbean include harrowing descriptions of fierce raiders who abducted women and cannibalized men. These stories have long been
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - It’s a well-known fact that most people are afraid of changes and our ancestors liked to follow certain traditions, but why did Neolithic
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers confirm now that “yew of gold” of the MNA (National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico) ), originates from the Spanish plunder in the
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Alpha Draconis, also known as Thuban, is located about 270 light-years away in the northern constellation Draco. Despite its "alpha" designation, it shines
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One of the most famous runestones, the Rök stone reveals Vikings feared climate change. Located in Östergötland County, Sweden, the - Rök Stone (in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recycling is definitely not a modern idea and it has its beginning in antiquity. Ancient sources confirm its practice goes back to the
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient Egyptian woman Merit Ptah is said to have been the first female physician and her accomplishments have inspired many women entering
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The 2,500-year-old tomb of a Scythian warrior was recently discovered in the ‘Siberian Valley of the Kings’ in Russia. The warrior was buried
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old small production center with winepresses and other related installations for producing a popular fish sauce (garum) was unearthed during excavations conducted
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A huge statue of the god Horus, was recently unearthed during Egyptian-German archaeological excavations carried out at the Funerary Temple of king Amenhotep
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com – Archaeologists, who investigated an ancient cemetery discovered several swords, spears and other artifacts that belonged to the Yotvingians, a long-forgotten ancient warrior culture
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient slab of limestone, probably engraved about 1,800 years ago was unearthed at the ancient city of Hadrianopolis, located in the Eskipazar district
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have made a quite remarkable find in an Egyptian sarcophagus. They have retrieved what may be the world’s oldest illustrated book. It’s
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient stone circles can be found in many places around the world. It’s still unclear why our ancestors created a circular alignment of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two Bronze Age tombs dating back to 3,500 years ago, containing a trove of engraved jewelry and artifacts, have been discovered by a
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a large palace at the Mayan city of Kulubá in Yucatán. According to the first reports, it seems the structure
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Road construction works in central Turkey led archaeologists to a discovery of an ancient sarcophagus that contained a female human skeleton, pieces of
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The mysterious Trzciniec culture is revealing more of its ancient secrets, but the latest discovery raises more questions than answers. An unusual grave,
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists are still trying to determine the age of the unearthed tomb that belonged to Priest Monoha, but preliminary studies show the burial
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Archaeologists and Biblical scholars have not given up their attempt to learn the truth about the Ark of the Covenant. Bible's lost Ark
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - Sweden’s capital Stockholm may be famous for many things, but discovering a rare 500-year-old shipwreck in the middle of the city was an
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - About 400,000 years ago, Homo erectus essentially vanished and researchers have tried to determine when and where one of modern humans' direct ancestors
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egyptians believed that a person's soul had many parts. One of these parts was called the ka, and the Egyptian symbol was sometimes
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – When and where the first Hellenistic temple was constructed has long been a bit of archaeological puzzle, but the ancient and beautiful city
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists were surprised when they unearthed 8,500-year-old-teeth that appeared to have been intentionally drilled to be worn as beads in a necklace or
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Rapanui carvers worked at the behest of the elite ruling class to carve nearly 1,000 Moai because they, and the community at
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AncientPages.com - A grave on Lena River sand bank ‘proves site north of Yakutsk city is not historic original Cossack settlement’ in coldest region. An exceptionally well-preserved mummified
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Robber’s Cave in Nebraska is a beautiful, historical place rich in folklore. Inside the 5,000-plus square feet cave, thousands of enigmatic engravings have
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In a region regularly visited by the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, among others, archaeologists have unearthed remarkable structures
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have once again discovered evidence supporting the existence of Amazon warriors who have previously been considered merely mythological characters. Russian archaeologists currently
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Almost everyone is familiar with the Biblical story of how Noah managed to survive the Great Flood. The story of an ancient catastrophe
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic is no ordinary Roman Catholic chapel. Located in Sedlec, in the suburbs of Kutna Hora, this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A number of fragments of royal colossi and a huge mud-brick wall from the New Kingdom have been unearthed at Heliopolis Temple in Matariya,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 3,500-year-old fragmented skull and femur that probably belonged to the Hittite period were recently unearthed in Sapinuwa (now Çorum) in central Anatolia,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Three wooden coffins have been uncovered in the courtyard of Padiaménopé tomb (TT 33), by an archaeological team led by from the Institut
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Viking hoard was a national treasure and should have belonged to the public, but it was stolen by greedy metal detectorists
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Science in Poland reports that the remains of twelve iron smelting furnaces used by the Celts 2,400 years ago have been discovered in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Giant 7,000-year-old ring-shaped structures have been discovered in the village of Nowe Objezierze, located within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A medieval ring from the late 9th to mid 10th century, discovered in the stronghold (a medieval ring-fort) in Grzybowo near Gniezno, a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The lost Kingdom of Urartu is as mysterious and interesting as the Amazon warriors. Archaeological discoveries are slowly revealing the truth about the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Inbreeding and population/demographic shifts could have led to Neanderthal extinction, researchers say. Neanderthal extinction could have occurred without environmental pressure or competition with
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - There is little information about these ancient ivory manikins that have been a bit of medical mystery until now. Ancient ivory manikins are
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