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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It took scientists centuries, but the secret code of Holy Roman Emperor Charles C has finally been cracked. Cryptographers and other scientists from
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare and well-preserved bone flute has been unearthed in Kent, UK. Scientists discovered the flute dating back to the 13th-15th Century while
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of several Roman coins unearthed in 1713—long thought to be forgeries—suggests that they are authentic, providing evidence that the leader
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Submerged below the waves of the English Channel lies an important scientific record of undiscovered Neanderthal artifacts dating back to the last ice
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The world's major writing systems have tended to simplify over time, with a notable exception: New research shows that the Chinese writing system
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The well-preserved remains of an ancient winepress have been found near the Roman fort Apsaros (today's Gonio near Batumi, Georgia). The Polish-Georgian team
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists report sonar images reveal an intriguing shipwreck resting at the bottom of Lake Mjøsa in Norway. Though this is Norway's largest lake
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A rather incredible discovery occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland, where a woman found a 135-year-old message in a bottle under her floorboards. Everything started
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - More than 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. This linguistic diversity is passed on from one generation to the next, similarly to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - On the 81st anniversary of the sinking of the Australian warship HMAS Sydney (II) and the disguised German raider HSK Kormoran following a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The world's first urban state societies developed in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, some 5,500 years ago. No other artifact type is more symbolic of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the beliefs of ancient Greeks, there is a well-known myth of Hades, a shadowy place where the dead lived. The deceased entered Hades
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The results of the archaeological studies at the Acropolis of Falasarna in Crete, Greece, are complete. While excavating at the site, scientists have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers of the University of Malaga (UMA) and the University of Jaen (UJA) have discovered Egypt's oldest tomb oriented to the winter solstice.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An Egyptian team of archaeologists working for the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered the remains of a colonnaded hall at the ancient
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AncientPages.com - In evolutionary terms, the human population has rocketed in seconds. The news that it has now reached 8 billion seems inexplicable when you think about our
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered a pyramid dedicated to an unknown ancient Egyptian queen. Who was the mysterious Queen, and why
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from a Basque research institute, the Aranzadi Science Society, say that they found the earliest document written in Basque language, which is considered
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AncientPages.com - It couldn’t have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun now have a promising new
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Even though it is over 2,000 years since the ancient Roman road networks were established, there are clear connections between the routes of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The wide expanse of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico holds the preserved footprints of life that roamed millennia ago. Giant sloths and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An enchanted Egyptian amulet and other historical remains believed to originate in the Roman period, have been discovered by archaeologists excavating ruins of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Piecing together the story of human evolution is an undeniably complex task. However, new research has brought us closer to understanding how early humans in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Norway's stave churches were built on remarkable technology that contributed to their uniqueness. The structures are impressive and highly unique examples of medieval
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The remains of a huge carp fish (2 meters/6.5 feet long), analyzed by scientists, mark the earliest signs of cooking by prehistoric humans
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An intriguing gold coin has been found on Newfoundland’s south coast. The object is of great interest because it may be the oldest
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As a human future among the stars becomes ever closer, one University of Oregon professor looks to the distant past for clues about
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Trent workmen have uncovered a 2,000-year-old Roman road in a field near Evesham, in Worcestershire, UK. Aidan Smyth, archaeology advisor for Wychavon District
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Beautiful, sacred, 4,000-year-old petroglyphs etched into a rock in Nevada have been defaced by two men who have now been sentenced for their
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during the Devonian Period over
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique forest submerged under water 6,000 - 8,000 years ago has re-emerged along the Welsh coast. Dozens of tree stumps, trunks, and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than two dozen amazingly well-preserved bronze statues have been discovered in thermal baths of San Casciano dei Bagni, in Tuscany, Italy. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researcher and GRS Radioisotopes technician Jorge Rivera, from the University of Seville, has participated in an incredible discovery that is unique in Europe.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A previously unknown Etruscan temple has been discovered in the ancient city of Vulci, which lies in the Italian region of Latium. The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Already about 4,000 years ago, a practice of purposeful water management, or irrigation, was adopted in northern China Ancient Chinese made an effort
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AncientPages.com - When the ancestors of Māori made landfall in Aotearoa some 750 years ago, it marked the final stop of the greatest expansion of human migration in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It was just another quiet day in the Motza neighborhood near Jerusalem, when a squad of police cars pulled over at an ancient
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The belief in vampires is widespread and goes far back in time. Stories of vampires are today mostly encountered in books and movies,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The alphabet was invented around 1800 BCE and was used by the Canaanites and later by most other languages in the world. Until
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Humans have the highest prenatal growth rate of all extant primates, but how this exceptional rate came about has been a mystery up
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Folklore
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By combining written texts, folklore, and astronomical calculations, a team of researchers at Nagoya University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and Otaru
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