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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - University of North Florida faculty member Dr. Barry Albright is part of a research team led by the Bureau of Land Management
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have
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Ancient Symbols
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans' close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - All across the world, there are still many mysterious ancient scripts, tablets, codes, and maps that, until this day, remain undeciphered. Multiple attempts
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AncientPages.com - One-horned creatures are found in myths around the world. Although unicorns in different cultures have little to do with one another, they have multiple associations in European
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - In the age of dinosaurs, many marine reptiles had extremely long necks compared to reptiles today. While it was clearly a successful
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An airborne laser scanning study has led to the surprising discovery of an ancient, unknown Maya city hidden deep in the jungle in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages - People have long believed in the existence of vampires. Ancient people were convinced these scary blood-sucking creatures were extremely dangerous. Accounts of vampires
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Tormod Fjeld was hiking with his family in the Moss area when they stopped for a rest break near a boulder, Viken County
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 700 years ago today, on May 20, 1310, shoes were made for the first time for both right and left feet.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Markings on a cave wall in France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to a study published June 21, 2023,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dutch archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable ancient structure that has been nicknamed the Stonehenge of the Netherlands". Scientists say the intriguing 4,000-year-old structure
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncienyPages.com - Measuring just 6 centimeters wide and 8 centimeters long, the magnitude and exceptionality of the discovery has left the European archaeological community flabbergasted.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Three 1850-year-old stone ossuaries have been retrieved in an operation carried out to prevent antiquity looting near Kafr Kanna in Galilee. Photography by
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The distant ancestors of modern horses had hooved toes instead of a single hoof, which vanished over time, according to researchers. The animals,
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The missing link has just been found between the earliest dinosaurs, whose size ranged from a few centimeters to at most three meters
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Tribal earth ovens built long before the Egyptian pyramids are being excavated as part of the first archeological project made public by
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Forgotten for millennia, the Kingdom of Mitanni was discovered in the nineteenth century, and excavations revealed fascinating facts about this unusual kingdom, which
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists report the discovery of an ancient pendant that may have the oldest carving of a penis ever unearthed. The stone was found
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Digital modelling of legendary fossil’s soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree dwelling, but knee muscles
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge (UK) in the 7th century with an incredibly rare gold and garnet cross (the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While repairing an old sewer pipe under the road in Erling Skakkes gate 9 in Trondheim, Norway, archaeologists carried out an urgent survey
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study shows that social disintegration and violent conflict played a crucial role in shaping the population dynamics of early farming societies in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Were anatomically modern humans the only ones who knew how to turn bone into tools? A discovery by an international team at the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The earliest-known evidence of freshwater fishing by ancient Alaskan people was discovered by a team of researchers led by University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It was during the winter of 2022, archaeologists conducted excavations in two areas at Framlingham Road, Laxfield, Suffolk. The site, showing the evaluation
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - At our recent Taylor Wimpey excavation at Bidwell West, Bedfordshire, our Milton Keynes field team have uncovered a medieval timber-framed building and a series of medieval enclosure ditches.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Mikołajki, Poland, have made a surprising discovery. Researchers announced they had encountered an unusual archaeological object providing traces of prehistoric
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bread has been known for millennia though its authentic history is lost in time. It is the primary food of man in almost
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Previous archaeological excavations in Jersey revealed Neanderthals visited La Cotte de St Brelade, a coastal cave for over 100,000 years. The cave was
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts are often just as interesting as the content of the manuscripts themselves. One such example is the frequently
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new armored dinosaur, known as an ankylosaur, has been described and named for Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum. Vectipelta
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating site Stöð on Stöðvarfjörður in East Iceland have found a small stone carved with a Viking Ship. This little find may
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -University of Tübingen computational linguist investigates kinships of the Tupí-Guaraní language family using methods from molecular biology. A new study indicates that one of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - No one knows what happened when we, Homo sapiens, first encountered the Neanderthals. But we know we met. We know that for thousands
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A very rare 3,000-year-old sword has been found in Bayern, Germany. The sword from the Middle Bronze Age is still in such good
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The forgotten ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit was discovered in 1928 by a local farmer plowing his field. He was unaware that he
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old skull unearthed in a tomb may offer evidence ancient Romans were the first to breed dogs with flat faces. Examination of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hundreds of human skulls and mandibles recovered from the Crenshaw site in southwest Arkansas are the remains of ancestors of the Caddo Nation
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed cat
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