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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How and when modern humans originated and spread throughout the world is still in draft form. Last year, scientists announced that a human
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It may not be possible to trace the game of chess with absolute certainty, but the popularity of this board game goes back thousands
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hurriyet Daily News reports that an ancient city, about 1.5 kilometers in diameter, was discovered four to 10 meters below the ground in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey's Diyarbakır have discovered 48 ancient lamps dating back around 1,500 years. The lamps were discovered during excavations at the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A high-resolution georadar has detected traces of a ship burial and a settlement that probably dates to the Viking Period at Edøy in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A monument believed to be around 8,000-years old has been unearthed in northwestern Turkey’s Ugurlu-Zeytinlik mound, located in the northwestern province of Canakkale’s Gokceada
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AncientPages.com - The sensational discovery was made three months ago in the Altai Mountains by the team of archeologists from Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography. The precious
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Warrior graves dating back 2,000 years have been found by archaeologists near Bejsce in the province Świętokrzyskie (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship), situated in southeastern Poland.
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Mount Sinai, also known as Mount Moses, is a sacred site to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In the Bible, it is written that
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two people died roughly 100 years apart. Nevertheless, they were buried together - in boats. In the second half of the 9th century,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers report they have discovered 143 spectacular, never before seen geoglyphs on the Nazca Plateau and its surroundings in Peru. One of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 12,000-year-old lake dried up after a team of treasure hunters carried out an authorized excavation to unearth an ancient trove in Turkey's
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations in the ancient city of Metropolis, located within the borders of the Torbalı district of the Aegean province of İzmir, Turkey continue
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ship-shaped formation discovered in 1959 in eastern Turkey, by Capt. İlhan Durupınar, an expert cartographer, will be presented in the form of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using a special type of radar, scientists have discovered “ghost” footprints dating as far back as the Pleistocene Era. Invisible footprints hiding since
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After spending extensive time scanning the desert of Sahara an archaeologist announced he has found a new site where a large structure is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Egypt Today reports the discovery of an archaeological cemetery in Saqqara. It is the first cemetery from the Roman era in this region, unearthed
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AncientPages.com - The British Museum has been accused of exhibiting “pilfered cultural property”, by a leading human rights lawyer who is calling for European and US institutions to return treasures
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Previously unknown motifs depicted on south-west Sweden’s best-preserved rock paintings have now been revealed by researchers at the University of Gothenburg. The art
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using drone technology, a team of UF researchers has uncovered an ancient and rare pre-Columbian Florida village. A drone equipped with Light Detection
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Who exactly were the Aurignacians, who lived in the Levant 40,000 years ago? The Aurignacian culture first appeared in Europe some 43,000 years ago
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Remnants of a drystone wall, known as the ‘Gawri Wall’ or ‘Gawri Chen Wall’, dated to the Antique Age have been discovered by Iranian
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Our knowledge about Neanderthals is increasing but there is still much we don’t know about our closest extinct human relative. The Neanderthals were
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists can now date some stave churches more accurately than in the past. A non-destructive measurement method called photodendrometry was used by researchers,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The existence of Biblical giant Goliath described in the Book of Samuel has not been proven. According to the Biblical account, the Philistine
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The remains of a huge settlement surrounded by a massive brick enclosure, has been discovered during the 1st phase of excavation by a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 1,400-year-old iron hammer and nails from the Byzantine period have been unearthed according to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists. The findings
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - These tiny gold foil figures are mainly associated with the Pre-Viking Age, but what were they used for? A metal detector discovered an
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A marble statuette of the Roman goddess Cybele has been unearthed during archaeological works at the Forum site in Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Can the old Aztec technique in the form of innovative 'chinampas' ('artificial island') contribute to better urban farming today? Researchers led by Roland
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - What is hidden beneath the waters has been revealed once again. This time archaeologists report they have found a stunning underwater Stonehenge that
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In ancient times, Koh Ker was an important city of the Khmer Empire of South East Asia that lasted from 802 CE to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have now identified mosses and liverworts frozen with the Iceman, Ötzi. The man's 5,300-year-old human corpse was found frozen in ice in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The most famous sword in stone is the Excalibur associated with the Arthurian legend. The Excalibur was said to have had magical powers.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Keeladi (Keezhadi) is today an important archaeological site, located on the banks of the Vaigai River near the southern tip of India. Once
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African ‘homeland’ and thrived there for 70 thousand years,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - To avoid persecution and hide valuable treasures the Knights Templar often used secrets passages and chambers where they met. Archaeologists have now discovered
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 2400 BC and 2200 BC, following the conquests by its founder Sargon of Akkad.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Will we ever learn the truth about the mysterious three-fingered mummies with elongated skulls discovered at Nazca in Peru? These ancient mummies have
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Bayeux Tapestry is an exceptional example of Romanesque art depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 by William, Duke of Normandy,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An impressive discovery in the form of an intact grave of a Scythian warrior has been reported from the excavation site at Mount
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early Celts from the Heuneburg settlement may have enjoyed Mediterranean wine well before they began importing Mediterranean drinking vessels--and this special drink may
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