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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavated at Assos, an ancient Greek city located on the Aegean coast in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale province, Turkey, discovered a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - Ancient Pages.com - Jade was held sacred by many ancient civilizations. The green stone has been found in many ancient tombs and placed there as
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -During a rescue excavation in 1996 in the town of Lod, one of the most impressive mosaic floors in Israel was discovered! Image credit: Israel
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals that are now an iconic fossil group often collected by amateurs. Over 350
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A large Anglo-Saxon burial has been unearthed at Bicker Fen, Lincolnshire, UK. The discovery was part of Viking Link’s construction. A project team
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Zapotec civilization was by no means primitive. On the contrary, when investigating archaeological sites in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica, scientists
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of many impressive and colorful figures in Greek mythology is Circe, a divine witch and goddess of incredible power. She had the ability to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists knew it was a race against time, but their struggle to find the ancient structure was not in vain. A long-lost Roman
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient pyramids have been found on all continents, and the test ancient structures' purpose varies depending on the civilizations that constructed them. It
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists report they have discovered the remains of an ancient sunken ship at a site in the Mediterranean Sea, roughly 650 meters
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Earlier this year, a massive and horrifying earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. Almost 60,000 people died in
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Underwater Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have uncovered what may be Europe’s oldest settlement now located beneath the waters of Lake Ohrid, (the "Pearl of the Balkans."). The
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In February 2022, the journal Scientific Reports published a paper with the claim that a comet exploded over what is now Cincinnati around
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Human Beginnings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A new study published in the journal Science finds that around 1.12 million years ago a massive cooling event in the North
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has found evidence that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding shifts in climate and vegetation played a
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists, led by Egyptian researchers, has made a groundbreaking discovery of a new species of extinct whale, Tutcetus rayanensis,
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Genetic kinship analyses of human bones reach their limits if the DNA is poorly preserved or if destructive sampling is not possible. New
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A luxurious artifact carved out ivory dating from the time of the Kingdom of Judah period (9th–8th centuries BCE) was uncovered during an
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Around 150 so-called circular enclosures are known from the Central and Eastern European Middle Neolithic (first half of the 5th millennium BCE). Only a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures used so-called 'magical mirrors' to ward off evil forces. The belief in the power of the Evil Eye goes thousands
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Arenaerpeton supinatus was discovered in rocks cut from a nearby quarry that were intended for the building of a garden wall. A 240-million-year-old fossil of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study has nuanced the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age and how certain groups of
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers recently studied the remains of a modern human baby unearthed in the Grotte du Renne ("Reindeer's cave") located in Arcy-sur-Cure, Northeast France.
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Cattle may seem like uniquely American animals, steeped in the lore of cowboys, cattle drives, and sprawling ranches. However, scientists have found evidence
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a partial skeleton of a whale that lived about 40 million years ago. Researchers say it is possible this is
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient history of Seppuku is obscure, and it's difficult to trace the beginnings of the suicide ritual. However, it seems that the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A Roman road network that spanned Devon and Cornwall and connected significant settlements with military forts across the two counties as well as
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Coal miners have discovered remnants of a Roman ship in Serbia. The find occurred when mining works were carried out in the Drmno
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Excavations in Hualongdong (HLD), East China, have revealed abundant hominin fossils dating back 300,000 years. The fossils from a late Middle Pleistocene were excavated
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Forget your sense of exploration; do not let your curiosity get the best of you. The scenery is tempting, and your urge to
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jiaohe (in Chinese: 'where two rivers meet') is considered one of China's oldest, largest, and best-preserved earthen cities. It was built 2,300 years
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD is currently being exposed in the City of David, Jerusalem Walls National
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When excavating in the La Noguera region of the Pyrenean foothills, Spain scientists discovered bony remains of a 14,000-year-old skeleton of a small
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A rare 2,500-year-old marble disc, designed to protect ancient ships and ward off the evil eye, was discovered by a lifeguard diving at
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One of the first finds in new excavation reveals a glimpse of Roman life at Milecastle 46 on Hadrian’s Wall. Steelyard beam. Image
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Ancient Technology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While 21st-century water companies struggle to maintain clean, fresh supplies, a new study reveals that, some 2,000 years ago, Roman water engineers were
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hailed as a sensation find, researchers report they have discovered the official entrance to an Ice Age cave near Engen, Germany, that nobody
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Medieval sword was found in the sea off the Carmel coast, and it probably fell into the water during a naval battle
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Excavations by a University of Kansas paleontologist working in a treasure trove of fossils called the "Spence Shale Lagerstätte" have revealed an ancient
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