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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A never-before seen manuscript by Scottish-based artisan Esther Inglis, dating back to the early 1600s, was unveiled at The University of St Andrews
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While investigating the area around Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, England, scientists discovered a remarkable complex of early Neolithic monuments. Archaeologists used advanced radiocarbon
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of Swiss and Greek archaeologists recently completed the third season of excavations on the wreck of Antikythera. The expedition, which took
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Modern Tello (Telloh) was an ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, located between the Tigris and Euphrates and about 20-25 kilometers north-northwest of Lagash
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - The urge to draw images in sand, or create sand sculptures, seems to be irresistible, as a walk on many a modern beach or dune surface
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Did the pterosaurs, flying reptiles from the days of the dinosaurs, practice parental care or not? New research by scientists from Ireland
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers have developed a model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Norway report they have discovered what seems to be a massive Viking house that has the length of almost two tennis
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists and environmental researchers have been exploring early Polynesian presence on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Subantarctic Islands. University of Canterbury Dr
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human migrations and individual mobility played a bigger role in prehistory than previously anticipated. With the movement
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a new light on early humans as woodworking masters, according to a new study. State-of-the-art analysis of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Prehistorians used advanced technology and discovered that early humans in the Hula Valley invested in systematic procurement of raw materials hundreds of thousands
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Canadian and Chinese scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago that shows a dramatic moment in time
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have identified marks carved intentionally on bay trees some five or ten years before the Neolithic settlement of La Draga was built
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Celtiberian tribes of mixed Iberian and Celtic origin inhabited an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries B.C. In the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This summer, archaeologists have worked hard at the Vernon Parish site in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana, United States. While digging through
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Benjamin Franklin may be best known as the creator of bifocals and the lightning rod, but a group of University of Notre Dame
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Vikings were very superstitious and convinced higher powers guided their lives. Norse gods and goddesses, mysterious animals, and supernatural creatures played an essential role in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Five treasure finds, including three hoards and two grave groups of Bronze Age and Roman date, were declared treasure on Tuesday 11th July 2023
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Butterflies and moths share "blocks" of DNA dating back more than 200 million years, new research shows. Scientists from the Universities of Exeter
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Japanese mythology has a rich arsenal of tales, legends, and myths. Among them, some describe unbelievable, supernatural, and malevolent spirits and monsters with the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A large, complex karst cave known as the Te’omim Cave located in the Jerusalem Hills has been excavated since 2009 by a team
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Featured Stories
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - July 15 is the feast day of St. Swithin, an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester who died in 862 A.D. His name is associated with
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist has discovered a part of a Bronze Age twisted gold torc in a field near Mistley, on the River Stour
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Along the prominent Gila River at Butte, Arizona, lies Cochran Ghost Town and there are five very well-preserved beehive-shaped ovens standing in a row.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Who knows whom? Who has which desires and needs? The answers to these questions are worth a lot of money for the advertising
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, God Odin always has his two raven companions, Hugin (Huginn) and Munin (Munnin), on his shoulders. As explained earlier on Ancient
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur (extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs) has been named by a team of British, American and
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As previously reported on Ancient Pages, the discovery of a mysterious Viking grave in the Swedish Mountains last year was hailed as one
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a new study, researchers and members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area are the first to publish
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Kushan Empire in Central Asia was one of the most influential states of the ancient world. A research team at the University
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The language of ancient Egypt has no known word for ‘art’. Its civilization is often perceived as having been extremely formal in its
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists excavate, they make the most curious discoveries possible. What was perfectly natural to our ancient ancestors is regarded as unusual today.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Where and when the first people appeared in North America is a debated subject many cannot agree on. It has previously been said
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The fort of Vindolanda, one of the earliest Roman garrisons, built by the Roman army in England, is one of Europe's most important Roman
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Egyptian Book of the Dead provides unique insights into the religious life of ancient Egypt. A new handbook presents the current state
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In late June, archaeologists conducted what they thought would be a minor investigation of Herlaugshaugen, a burial mound on the island of Leka
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers. Every bird you’ve ever seen— every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo— is
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 150-million-year-old stomach stone has been found in the UK, making it the oldest discovered fossil of its kind. Found by renowned
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have uncovered a spectacular mosaic panel in the late Roman (ca. 400 C.E.) synagogue at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel's
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from Bournemouth University have discovered a Bronze Age burial site during an excavation of a prehistoric settlement in Dorset. It is
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