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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An old city of Stratonikeia Stratonicea) has rich historical records going back 3,000 years. The council building at the ancient city of Stratonicea,
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows—for the first time—that some of Earth's earliest animals managed to be picky
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egypt did not have a public school system, so the average Egyptian could neither read nor write. It is estimated that less
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have used mitochondrial DNA to trace a female lineage from northern coastal China to the Americas. By integrating contemporary and ancient mitochondrial
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has given an intriguing glimpse of the hunting habits and diets of Neanderthals and other humans living in Western Europe.
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Sauropods—including iconic long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus—were the largest animals ever to walk the earth. No other dinosaur or land mammal
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Since autumn 2021, archaeologists of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) have been excavating the area of the former Roman shore fort on
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. Modern human
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Charles Darwin's landmark opus "On the Origin of the Species" ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution: "There is a
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Paleontology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The world beneath our feet is sometimes full of surprises. South America has hundreds of kilometers of weird tunnels and peculiar caves. The
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The legend of Saint Brendan's island has not died, but this intriguing place raises many questions. Does this mythical island exist? Why does
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and biotechnology are now revealing the rich molecular secrets of Paleolithic microorganisms. In a new study published in Science,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Last year, scientists reported sonar images revealed an intriguing shipwreck at the bottom of Lake Mjøsa in Norway. New video footage has caught a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists at Flinders University have used sub-surface imaging and aerial surveys to see through floodplains in the Red Lily Lagoon area of West
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Meet the "tadpole from hell," or to give the species its full name, Crassigyrinus scoticus. Digital reconstructions of broken fossils have revealed more
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Utahraptor is going to need 10 million more candles on its next birthday cake. A geological study of the rock formation that encased a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Evidence from West Africa about human evolution remains scarce, but recent research has indicated unique patterns of cultural change in comparison to other
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first modern humans spread across Europe in three waves during the Paleolithic, according to a new study. The archaeological record of Paleolithic
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Artifacts made of stone, bones or teeth provide important insights into the subsistence strategies of early humans, their behavior and culture. However, until
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Cycads, a group of gymnosperms that can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to be
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Archaeologists have discovered one of the oldest Cyrillic inscriptions from the time of King Simeon the Great This important discovery was made in the
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One question science has long wanted answers to is simple: How cold was the ice age? We now have an answer to this
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An impressive discovery of the 2,000-year-old tomb with human remains that belong to a Roman physician, aged between 50 and 60 years, with
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2015, Gkuthaarn and Kukatj community members of Queensland's Gulf Country invited us to excavate, analyze, and rebury the skeletal remains of eight
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - An unusually well-preserved "Marine Dwarf World" from 462 million years ago was found at Castle Bank, Wales by a team led by
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bertrand du Guesclin (c. 1320 – 1380) was the son of a poor knight from Brittany. He was known by nicknames: "The Eagle
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists stumbled upon something extraordinary while excavating a Celtic grave. They discovered a pair of extremely well-preserved scissors and a strangely folded sword
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pax Deorum ("peace of the gods") signified the central goal of the Roman state religion. The Pax Deorum provided divine protection to the Roman Empire,
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Historical Figures
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Netflix's new movie about Queen Cleopatra has upset many people. Starring Adele James as Cleopatra, John Partridge as Julius Caesar, Craig Russell as Marc
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Egyptian seaport Berenice Troglodytica (also knowns as Briniki ) on the western shore of the Red Sea have
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists from Brazil and Chile reveal an important discovery about the past of the most inhospitable continent on Earth, Antarctica. Today covered
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Picts of Scotland who have long intrigued and have been ascribed exotic origins in fact descended from indigenous Iron Age society and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford's School of
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Botanists and paleontologists, led by researchers from CU Boulder, have identified a fossil chili pepper that may rewrite the geography and evolutionary timeline
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Maritime history dates back thousands of years, och there is no doubt many ancient civilizations had excellent knowledge of navigation and sailing. Once
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Persistent burial practices over many centuries challenge simplistic assumptions about ancient culture. View across Boquerón Bay, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, with the Ortiz
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Commercial production of luxury “Gaza wine” was long assumed to be the economic basis of Late Antique settlement in the Negev Desert. Scientists
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DNA
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A previously overlooked letter and a news article that was never published, both written in 1953, add to other lines of evidence
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence—locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas—of a series of severe and lengthy droughts which may
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages - Many ancient texts, legends, and myths mention sacred old mushrooms vital to our ancestors. Ancient civilizations admired, feared, and even worshipped mushrooms. Because
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