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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As archaeologists continue to excavate the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt, new impressive findings are being made. The Italian Dutch archeological mission from the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - More than 300 peculiar petroglyphs have been discovered scattered across the American Southwest. Most of these petroglyphs are known as water glyphs in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeological sites along the Libyan shoreline are at risk of being damaged or lost due to increasing coastal erosion, according to a new
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Conservators and curators from the Art Gallery of New South Wales have used an advanced imaging technique at the Australian Synchrotron to gain
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world's first nomadic empire—the Xiongnu—is, at last, coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While investigating at Waskiri, near the Lauca River and the Bolivian-Chilean border, archaeologists made a curious discovery. Scientists found an impressive circular construction
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - We tend to focus on ancient Sumerian inventions, their significant architectural accomplishments, and their vast scientific knowledge. Ancient Sumerian clay tablets are praised
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One can imagine how astonished scientists were when they found the remains of a previously undiscovered species of an extinct primordial giant
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A researcher at the University of Kentucky is helping solve a mystery on the coast of North Carolina: Where did coal found on
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times and that some humans carry DNA
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Roman coins have previously been discovered on Gotland in Sweden. However, coming across similar ancient items on the deserted island of Gotska
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Denisovans and the Neanderthals are long gone, but their DNA can be found in certain modern humans. According to researchers, some present-day
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have described a new species of bat based on the oldest bat skeletons ever recovered. The study on the extinct bat,
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AncientPages.com - In May and June of 2018, Australia’s first near-complete skull of a sauropod – a group of long-tailed, long-necked, small-headed dinosaurs – was found on a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists have discovered an amazing ancient temple with marble altars at the bottom of the sea of Pozzuoli in the Italian region of
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Viking society, kings were the most influential people, but having the highest social status was associated with responsibilities and particular requirements. Unlike
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A pair of nice sandals were discovered during excavation works at the Harbor of Eleutherios (Theodosius), one of the ports of ancient Constantinople, the
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - An almost meter-long footprint made by a giant, a meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Period represents the largest of its kind
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A previously unknown underground tunnel estimated to be about 1,500 years have been unearthed during ongoing archaeological excavations in 1,500-year-old St. Polyeuktos Church in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Pre-Hispanic skeleton recently unearthed in Palenque belongs to a foreign woman, reveals the detailed analysis conducted by experts from INAH (National Institute of
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time in nearly 50 years, the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Ramses II will go on display and can be admired by
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News
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - How can we reconstruct Earth's 4.5-billion-year history using only the few traces of data left in the present? How can scientific models represent
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News
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A series of ancient dwellings have been discovered at the site of a new housing development in Newquay. Archaeologists from the Cornwall Archaeological
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many have never heard of Viking Botvid, but his story is remarkable, and his legacy is still alive in Sweden. Botvid was born
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - A new study suggests that predatory dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, did not have permanently exposed teeth as depicted in films such
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Long before dinosaurs, Earth was dominated by animals that were in many ways even more incredible. Carnivores such as Titanophoneus, or "titanic
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News
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study attempts to address a persistent problem in paleontology—what were the size of Dunkleosteus and other late Devonian arthrodire placoderms.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists Dr. Lorenzo de Lellis and Dr. Maciej Wyżgoł unexpectedly stumbled upon an enigmatic complex of rooms made of sun-dried brick, the interiors
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Why were young girls buried, adorned with fine gold jewelry, in Jerusalem in the Roman period? Photographer: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority Impressive
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Rennes, France, have discovered many objects up to 1,800 years old. Among these precious ancient items are statuettes of the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Reduced predictability of seasonal rainfall might have played a significant role in the disintegration of Classic Maya societies about 1,100 years ago. "Decline
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have reconstructed the face of a man who lived 35,000 years ago in Egypt. His remains, an almost complete skeleton, with the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 1,300 years ago, a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near Buckingham, UK, have found an interesting Mesolithic stone mace head. Mesolithic hunter-gather activity is believed to have focussed on resource-rich
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Gokstad ship was accidentally discovered by two curious young boys who began to dig into the mound to see if they could
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly recorded some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions. An international team of researchers, led by the
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AncientPages.com - Humans are an interesting mixture of altruism and competition. We work together well at times and at others we will fight to get our own way.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An analysis of strands of human hair from a burial site in Menorca, Spain, indicates that ancient human civilizations used hallucinogenic drugs derived
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New scientific research has revealed a piece of tartan found in a peat bog in Glen Affric around forty years ago can be
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The renowned Benin Bronzes are composed of metal sourced from Germany, according to a new study. The Benin Bronzes collectively refers to thousands
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