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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans began to spread across Eurasia about 45,000 years ago. Still, previous research showed that the first modern humans that arrived in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales worldwide. Now, researchers in Australia think they may have found evidence
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study by an international and interdisciplinary team headed by University of Freiburg archaeologist Dr. Ralph Araque Gonzalez from the Faculty of Humanities
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The great ancient city of Timgad is the largest Roman settlement ever built in North Africa. In AD 100, Emperor Trajan created the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Easter Island's large and impressive stone-carved statues have long intrigued scientists and the public in general. Many have long wondered how the ancient
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists who study the origins and evolution of the plague have examined hundreds of ancient human teeth from Denmark, seeking to address longstanding
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland's religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge. A combination of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How could a 3300-year-old story be commemorated and published millennia before televisions, radios, or posts were invented? The Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I provides
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –More than 100 years ago, Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Smithsonian Institution was asked to examine strange star-shaped fossils with lobes hailing from
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A frightening prophecy, battle with dangerous sea monsters, heroic deeds, and strange encounters with a shape-shifting troll are just some of the many
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AncientPages.com - A headline bound to get you up in the morning — a 2,000 year old dildo from ancient Rome has just been discovered. The 16-centimetre wooden phallus
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Wilhelm I Conqueror, also known as "William the Bastard" (ca. 1028 -1087), was King of England and Duke of Normandy. William the Conqueror
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Britain's oldest shoe has been found on a beach in Kent. The shoe, made of leather, is 3,000 years old and was discovered
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The saying "there is nothing new under the Sun" seems appropriate when we learn that sanitary hardware was invented long ago. Scientists have
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The pre-Hispanic Wari culture Wari flourished from about 500 A.D. to 1000 A.D., in the region of Ayacucho region and stretched over Cusco's
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In their search for silver ore, the Romans established two military camps in the Bad Ems area near Koblenz in the 1st century AD.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A fascinating quest to discover the identity of a prolific early-20th-century Indigenous painter has led a Griffith directed research team to the top
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists know that people have practiced cranial trephination, a medical procedure that involves cutting a hole in the skull, for thousands of years.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a new study, several researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder reenacted a small part of a trek that people in the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If the emergence of mechanically propelled weapons in prehistory is commonly perceived as one of the hallmarks of advancing modern human populations into
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in France have found one of the first residential sites belonging to the prehistoric builders of some of Europe's first monumental stone
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have recovered and studied archaeological evidence of an ancient stringed musical instrument crafted from deer antler in southern Vietnam. Lead researcher and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research has revealed humans living on the Mediterranean coast 9,500 years ago may have relied more heavily on a fish diet than
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Like a merchant of old, balancing the weights of two different commodities on a scale, nature can keep different genetic traits in balance
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci's understanding of gravity—though not wholly accurate—was centuries ahead of his time. In an article
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A. Sutherland- AncientPages.com - The "Dwarfie Stane" is a remarkable ancient and massive piece of red sandstone. This 5,000-year-old block is surrounded by a mystery that has not
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Inscribed with passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the ancient Egyptian scroll known as the Waziri Papyrus I is over 16
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ice in Norway continues to melt, and glacial archaeologists are discovering more and more unique ancient artifacts. This time, scientists from the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A unique artifact discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda may have been used as a device during sex rather than as a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, located between the Tigris and Euphrates, was once part of the Lagash city-state and a political and
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Human Beginnings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Every biologist knows that small structures can sometimes have a big impact: Millions of signaling molecules, hormones, and other biomolecules are bustling
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Neolithic cultures of Malta left a legacy of some of the most magnificent temples. It is believed that ancient Malta's natural surroundings deeply
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The mystery of the mummified mermaid has been solved, and she is not what she appears to be, a team of scientists announced.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have pinpointed two intervals when ice and ocean conditions would have been favorable to support early human migration from Asia to North
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AncientPages.com - For many years, archaeologists and historians have provided an increasingly informed insight into the dynamic world of the vikings, chipping away at the clichés of a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In Kortessem, Belgium, a metal detectorist has found a fragment of a puzzling Roman artifact. The finder reported his mysterious object to the
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A. Sutherland - Ancient Pages.com - Gods and other mythical creatures often had the help of magical and powerful objects. In myths and legends, these objects are often forged
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found a Latin papyrus with a detailed paycheck of a Roman legionary soldier, dated to 72 AD– during the Great Revolt
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It is called radiocarbon 3.0, the newest method in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the
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