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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Abusir near Saqqara, Egypt, have unearthed a unique tomb belonging to a military officer who commanded battalions made up of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is a small bronze artifact in the Cincinnati Art Museum's East Asian art collection in Ohio. It is not particularly remarkable at
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The 15th-century French composer and singer Josquin des Prez, or "Josquin," as he is commonly known, achieved the Renaissance equivalent of rock star
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The sword was found in three pieces by two metal detector enthusiasts, independent of each other, in the Jåttå/Gausel area in Stavanger, already
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed an 8,000-year-old Yarmukian 'Mother Goddess' figurine at Sha’ar HaGolan in Israel. The 20-centimeter figurine was discovered broken in two pieces
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A tiny, prehistoric obsidian flake originating from a 45,000-year-old tool was discovered in Armenia and published by Ellery Frahm, an archaeological scientist in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists has unearthed bones of reindeer and woolly mammoth in the limestone cave hidden beneath Pembroke Castle. Wogan Cavern is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - What started three years ago as an ordinary study of some ancient ruins located around the San Pedro hermitage, known variously as El
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils discovered in Scotland represent some of the world's oldest salamanders, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The research
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Altamura Man lived more than 130,000 years ago when ice sheets were expanding from out of Antarctica and Greenland. His fossilized skeleton
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Fossil tooth analysis by Southern Cross University geochemist Dr. Renaud Joannes-Boyau has played a central role in an international collaboration that has properly
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AncientPages.com - That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a massive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An archaeological dig at a city park has uncovered what could be the earliest house found in Cardiff. The Caerau and Ely Rediscovering
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During routine construction works in the Defne district of southern Turkey's Hatay, workers accidentally discovered the remains of a Roman villa and a mosaic
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The same four factors that explain how people change their beliefs on a variety of issues can account for the recent rise in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient bone needles estimated to be 8,200 years old have been unearthed during excavations conducted in the Yeşilova and Yassıtepe mounds of western Turkey's Izmir.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Professor has announced he has deciphered a 3,500-year-old stone tablet discovered in Jerusalem. According to his study, the stone is inscribed with
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An unrecognized, hidden, and millennia-old subterranean world lies under the surface of our planet. Unknown ancient men once dug an underground world of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are currently exploring a mysterious passageway under the world's longest known cave system. Their mission has been successful so far and the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A perfectly preserved wooden sculpture was recently discovered at the Chan Chan archaeological complex in northern Peru. Wooden sculpture depicting a litter bearer of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed “decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of ‘founder of genetics.’” So concludes
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient Tintagel Castle has quite spectacular natural topography, particularly the eroded neck of land dividing the island from the mainland. Located on both sides
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence the first humans to inhabit the Arctic appeared about 40,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Late Paleolithic.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from Bournemouth University have found the remains of prehistoric people and animal sacrifices in a recently discovered Iron Age settlement in Dorset.
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Zteve T Evans - AncientPages.com - The Chiloé Archipelago, off the coast of Chile, is inhabited by a mixture of Chono, Huilliche, and Cunco people, who brought their
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Located not far from the international airport, the Al Wathba region is home to a beautiful oasis-like wetland reserve that is enjoyed by
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists may have unearthed the oldest European human fossil to date. Found at the world-famous Atapuerca prehistoric archaeological site in northern Spain, scientists have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Georgia State University anthropologist Dr. Jeffrey Glover grew up in metro Atlanta, but speaking to him, it sounds like his heart is in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of what they believe was one of the greatest fire temples in Iran during the Sassanid age, named after
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Fingerprints have been a source of people's great fascination and can be traced back to ancient times. Handprints and fingerprints made by W.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Georgia Guidestones have been vandalized on previous occasions. The recent destruction of the monument dubbed "America's Stonehenge" near Elberton took place on
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologically excavated stone tools—some as much as 2.6 million years old—have been hailed as evidence for an early cultural heritage in human evolution.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New archaeological techniques have uncovered the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists buried in unmarked graves in the Anglican Parish of St
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of specialists and students led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jodi Magness recently returned to Israel's
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the Stone Age, pendants with potent symbolism were made from animal teeth and bones, adorning clothes or accessories and serving as rattles.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur, hoping to answer some of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An almost intact skeleton of a young warrior has been unearthed during archaeological excavations in the vicinity of Pasohlávky in the Brno-Country District
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the most extraordinary archaeological discoveries of recent times was the uncovering of the so-called Seahenge off the north coast of Norfolk,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from three universities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, found a fossiliferous site lost for more than 70 years near the city
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There is a vast network of neolithic tunnels crisscrossing several European countries, built millennia ago. The old city of Orvieto, Italy, once a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During Roman times Colchester was known as Camulodunum. Located in Essex, 80 km northeast of London, in what was the territory of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Skalica district in Slovakia is a well-known archaeological site where scientists have previously unearthed many interesting ancient objects. Credit: M. Sládok, KPÚ
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A well-preserved ancient road discovered by an archaeologist offers evidence that Romans moved much deeper into Wales than historians previously thought. Dr. Mark
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, researchers
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