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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have shown how three vortices can be linked in a way that prevents them from being dismantled. The structure of the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists excavating in the archaeological zone of Oxkintok, about 55 kilometers south of Mérida, Mexico, have unearthed an intriguing ancient statue of a
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The problem with researching Iceland's ancient history is the lack of written sources. Most scholars say Iceland was discovered by Norse people who
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An archaeologist says he has made an astonishing discovery and can offer evidence extinct human species used fire for both light and cooking
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Myths & Legends
AncientPages.com - The story of Count Dracula, as many of us know it, was created by Bram Stoker, an Irishman, in 1897. But most of the action takes
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made an important discovery in the Kingdom of Aksum, a major ancient power in Northeastern Africa, identifying two churches from shortly
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest known narrative scene, telling an ancient story, at the 11,000-year-old site of Sayburç in south-eastern
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have analyzed stone tools from southern China. Their study provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Scientists have long debated why non-bird dinosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, became extinct—whereas mammals and other species such as turtles and crocodiles
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time—opening a 'game-changing' new chapter in the history of evolution. Microscopic fragments of environmental DNA
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For over a century, one of the earliest human fossils ever discovered in Spain has been long considered a Neandertal. However, new analysis
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A French Gothic ivory casket worth more than £1.5 million is at risk of leaving the UK unless a buyer can be found
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near Northampton, UK, have found a magnificent 1,300-year-old necklace made up of at least 30 pendants and beads made of Roman
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old, large Roman temple has been discovered under and next to the Church of St. Daniel in the village of Danilo near
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Egyptian archaeologists conducting excavations at the Garza site in Egypt's Fayoum city unearthed a large funerary building/structure dating back to the Ptolemaic
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This new study demonstrates how the creative use of unconventional research methods turned an unfortunate archaeological sampling event into a scientific success story.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Until the beginning of this century, the production of fully worked bone tools was considered an innovation introduced in Europe around 40,000 years
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An exceptional collection of well-preserved stucco maks examined by experts are now revealing their secrets shedding light on the ancient Maya kingdom. Archaeologist
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A series of exciting inscriptions, almost invisible to the naked eye, have been discovered in the margins of an important eighth-century manuscript in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The prehistoric ruins of the Din Lligwy settlement have a long history spanning three eras. House foundations at Din Lligwy hut circle, Anglesey, August
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The remains of two medieval merchant vessels, known as cogs, were discovered over the summer in Varberg in Sweden, during an archaeological excavation.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Louisiana State University (LSU) Campus Mounds sit on high ground overlooking the Mississippi River floodplain and have been a gathering place and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ever since Heinrich Schliemann discovered Priam's Treasure in Troy in 1873, the origin of the gold has been a mystery, but a new study
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A well-preserved 3,000-year-old scarab seal was accidentally discovered during a school trip in Israel. The ancient Egyptian stone amulet depicts the bestowal of legitimacy
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Ancient owl-shaped slate engraved plaques, dating from about 5,000 years ago in the Iberian Peninsula, may have been created by children as toys. About 4,000
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AncientPages.com - A little over a year ago we reported on a large area at the foot of the Asperillo cliff, on the coast of the Doñana Natural Area
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report they have made an exceptional discovery in Peru. An ancient fresco that has been lost for over a century has been
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New evidence, helping to form a 15th-century reconstruction of part of Westminster Abbey, demonstrates how a section of the building was once the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - More than 2,000 years before the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, another famous ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Flint tools discovered over 50 years ago in Cave Tunel Wielki (Małopolska) are half a million years old and among the oldest man-made
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Based on ancient written sources it is known that Adrian von Bubenberg came on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1466. More
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The sustainable development of agriculture has laid a solid foundation for the birth of human civilization and countries. Early agriculture has long been
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 1000-year-old silver hoard containing several beautiful torque-style neck rings, arm rings, and coins has been discovered in Viggbyholm, Täby, outside Stockholm. “This
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A humerus analyzed by the UPV/EHU's Human Evolutionary Biology group belonged to a specimen that lived in the Paleolithic period, 17,000 years ago.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report they have made more amazing finds at the Roman villa site in Rutland, UK. Dating back to the third or fourth
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Excavating ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once thriving medieval Ashkenazi Jewish community in
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Mating patterns could actually help explain many supposedly biological relationships between traits, researchers say Many estimates of how strongly traits and diseases
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It is one of the strangest ancient desert mysteries one can come across. Truth be told, no one knows what happened. Some scholars
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AncientPages.com - We humans can't stop playing with our food. Just think of all the different ways of serving potatoes—entire books have been written about potato recipes alone.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Andrew Nelson studies bioarchaeology, in part, because it allows him to understand how people lived thousands of years ago. And while he has
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Deep in the vaults at Nationalmuseet, Denmark, is a unique axe. The Medieval axe is unusual for many reasons. It was put in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A monumental structure dating back to the 7th century B.C. has been unearthed during excavations at the Karmir Blur (Red Hill - also
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