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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Thor, the legendary Norse god from the mythological city of Asgard, is not alone. According to groundbreaking research published in the journal Nature, we
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton (UK) studying a British dinosaur tooth have concluded that several distinct groups of spinosaurs -- dinosaurs with
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows that a condition known as Dupuytren's disease is partly of Neanderthal origin. Researchers have long known
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do.
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first side-necked turtle ever to be found in the U.K. has been discovered by an amateur fossil collector and paleontologists at the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report discovering an "incredibly rare" Roman tomb near London Bridge Station, UK. Last year, archaeologists found very largest Roman mosaics at the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers who discovered a vast network of stone walls along the River Nile in Egypt and Sudan say these
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the site of the A40 Science Transit park & ride at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, have made some interesting discoveries. During
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live young, researchers from Nanjing University and University of Bristol have revealed. Until
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As an archaeologist, you can expect to find some surprises everywhere. That's what happened during recent excavations on a hill in Tystberga outside
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient Etruscan beliefs, there is a strange monster to which many scholars refer to a man because of the animal face and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Kythnos on the Aegean Sea island has long fascinated archaeologists. The site, first inhabited about 10,000 years ago, has some
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - The French archaeologist Ludovic Slimak has spent the past 30 years rummaging fields and caves from the Horn of Africa to the Artic Circle, and, of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers, including a Virginia Commonwealth University professor, has discovered rare prehistoric instruments made from the bones of birds dating back
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Everyone goes to the toilet, but it's not a subject we often discuss. Have you ever wondered how people in the past went
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique hog-shaped pottery item - probably a child's toy approximately 6,000 years ago, was unearthed in east China's Jiangsu Province. The pottery pig
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A fragment of a statue depicting the Greek god Pan, has been unearthed during the excavations in Istanbul’s Saraçhane Archaeological Park. It is a new artifact recently discovered
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It's impossible to say how many ancient shipwrecks can be found throughout the Mediterranean. Many civilizations, such as Egyptians, Phoenicians, Romans, and Greeks,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered that shells were essential to our ancient ancestors on several occasions. Shells are one of the oldest ways humans have
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A couple in Denmark found a huge runestone under the floor while renovating the kitchen in their house in the village Mosekær just
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Medieval religious music is often perceived as being simple, and not particularly flashy or lavish. It often had a function that goes beyond
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species' "last gasp" during a period when Earth's warming climate forced massive changes to
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Newly discovered biomarker signatures point to a whole range of previously unknown organisms that dominated complex life on Earth about a billion
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from Morocco in northwest Africa revealed that food production was introduced by Neolithic European and Levantine
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It was a chance discovery. The piece of wood could have easily gone onto the bonfire or been treated as trash. Luckily, Derek
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - A dinosaur specimen from Castellón, Spain represents a new proposed species of spinosaurid, reports a paper published in Scientific Reports. The identification of
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, Hymir is a fierce giant, husband of Hrod, father of Tyr, the ancient god of war, the lawgiver of the gods, and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Was it once a child's toy or someone's idea of a practical joke? We may never find an answer to this question, but
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists have discovered rare, well-preserved cloth fragments, dwellings, baskets, weaving swords, and much more while examining a site near Rome, Italy. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have discovered the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How do today's Indigenous communities of South America trace back to the history of human migration and contact in the continent? Graphical abstract.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in York have used 3D scans to study the Roman burial practice of pouring liquid gypsum over the bodies of adults and
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human ancestors dating back more than about 50,000 years
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists excavating a fortress site in southern Georgia aim to uncover why communities in this area were more resilient than in other parts
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In an episode of the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the small village of Thérouanne, located on the river Lys in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com -There is a mysterious ancient city of Djado located on the southern border of the Djado plateau in northeastern Niger. Once, there were several
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In January 1989, a worker discovered the remains of an ancient skeleton in a quarry near Buhl, Idaho, United States. The skeleton was named the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The existence of legendary Jomsvikings is one of the greatest unsolved Viking mysteries. They are described in Icelandic Sagas as superheroes and a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The five new archaeological sites have been discovered in the Megalopolis lignite mine in southern Greece contain valuable faunal and cultural remains belonging
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have led the analysis of bracelets found in the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I – the largest and most famous collection of
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