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AncientPages.com - Is your pet part of the family? That’s nothing new. Archeological evidence exists to suggest that the Vikings held their own animals in high – even
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a Neolithic ornate necklace in a child's grave in Jordan. According to a new study, this single accessory provides new
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AncientPages.com - Science fiction is rife with fanciful tales of deadly organisms emerging from the ice and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting human victims. From shape-shifting aliens in Antarctica, to super-parasites
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Archaeoastronomy
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Coal has long played a crucial role in the life of human civilizations. Records of systematic coal fuel exploitation date back to the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography "Moon and Rainbow" in which he recounted his ancestors' stories. Among them
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During a search for artifacts made of meteoritic iron, archaeologists accidentally found a Bronze Age arrowhead stored in the Bern History Museum’s collection.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Exeter, UK, have made several intriguing finds this season. For the first time in 150 years, scientists have the opportunity
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DNA
AncientPages.com - Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins. It’s difficult to imagine
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new species of dinosaur was discovered in Northeastern Thailand, in 2012, and now, a team of multidisciplinary experts in paleontology led by
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The origin of bees is tens of millions of years older than most previous estimates, a new study shows. A team led
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists discovered the ancient figurine, they assumed it was a horse, but this is not the case. Scientists have now uncovered a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary Medieval sundial has been discovered in the old town of Marburg, Germany. Students at Marburg University had been excavating the site
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The sarcophagus of Tabnit was unearthed in 1847. At first glance, it appeared as an ordinary ancient sarcophagus, but the inscription came with
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Palmwood shipwreck was discovered off the coast of the Dutch island of Texel in the Wadden Sea. The ship, whose name is
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists found a curious ancient artifact while excavating in a cave in Poggio Nativo, Lazio, Italy. The object in question has been described
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Geology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – High up in the Himalayas, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Niigata University, Japan, have discovered droplets of water
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AncientPages.com - The walls of ancient Egyptian tombs can teach us much about the lives of the pharaohs and their entourages. Tomb paintings showed the deceased and their
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers analyzed and reconstructed the destruction layer excavated within the rooms of a two-story building in Jerusalem that was occupied until the city's
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old tomb on the Isles of Scilly has puzzled scientists ever since it was discovered in 1999. Inside the grave was a
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The study of a new species of coelacanth from the Middle Triassic period, with a strange morphology for these fish known as "living
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of linguists and geneticists has achieved a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of Indo-European, a family of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - "What an artist dies with me!" The Roman Emperor Nero (AD 54 until AD 68) reportedly uttered those famous last words before his
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A perfectly preserved turtle fossil from Lower Bavaria yields important clues about both the species and the habitat that existed in southern Germany
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Neolithic lifestyle, based on farming instead of hunting and gathering, emerged in the Near East around 12,000 years ago and contributed profoundly
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Ancient Technology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did ancient Romans invent unbreakable glass? If they did, their secrets would be long lost because the Roman Emperor Tiberius beheaded the inventor
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers and six students from the University of South Florida have discovered a centuries-old house in exceptional condition during an
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist in Denmark has made an intriguing archaeological find. While being out on a rainy day and searching for anything of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bees are among the most recognized insects, highlighted in ancient myths and folklore of many cultures worldwide. Both bees and honey have accompanied
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – In a new study published in JMIRx Bio, one of JMIR Publications’ new overlay journals, scientist Floe Foxon explores whether the Loch
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An ancient city called Idu (now Satu Qala) was long hidden beneath a mound, and a few years ago, it was finally unearthed
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Jakarta … San Francisco … Shanghai … Phoenix … Houston. These major cities and others around the globe have many similarities, but they
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Earthen and shell mounds built hundreds of years ago by Indigenous people in the Mississippi River Delta contribute to biodiversity and the area's
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AncientPages.com - It's hard to imagine a world without spice today. Fast global trade has allowed the import and export of all manner of delicious ingredients that help
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 90,000 years ago, an interesting child walked the Earth. This individual was a young human hybrid. Nicknamed Denny by scientists, the ancient
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DNA
AncientPages.com - Nomadic animal-herders from the Eurasian steppe mingled with Copper Age farmers in southeastern Europe centuries earlier than previously thought. In a new study published in Nature, researchers used
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - After 20 years of above-ground surveys, archaeologists have excavated the famous Iron Age site of Němčice and confirmed the presence of the earliest
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Nippur (Sumerian: Nibru, "Enlil City"; Akkadian: Nibbur) was among the most ancient Sumerian cities and one of the most important religious centers throughout Mesopotamia. Some
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Undoubtedly, the impressive megalithic monument, known as the Pena Molexa, is one of the magical places of Narón in northwestern Galicia in Spain. A Pena Molexa.
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Books
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 985, Viking explorer Erik the Red led a group of Icelandic farmers to Greenland, where they established a settlement on the west
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