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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have puzzled over the origin of Namibia's fairy circles for nearly half a century. It boiled down to two main theories: either
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Conny Waters - AncientPages-com - An unusual exhibition is taking place in Kentucky, USA. Backed by the Ark Encounter and the associated Creation Museum a full-sized Ark of
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AncientPages.com - Scientific breakthroughs can happen in the strangest ways and places. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin because of mold growing on a Petri dish left out while he was on
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first Neanderthal draft genome was published in 2010. Since then, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have sequenced a
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Sarcophagus of the Amazons is a large Etruscan sarcophagus of an unknown artist, dated back to the third quarter of the 4th century BC and preserved in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the Late Viking Age, a grave was built that looks very similar to one of the most spectacular graves of the Roman
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has shown milk was used by the first farmers from Central Europe in the early Neolithic era around 7,400 years
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Advanced techniques to analyze the Dead Sea Scrolls and Eastern papyri are revealing vibrant secrets about daily life in the ancient world. Around
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meat. Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the networks Neolithic people
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has, for the first time used zinc isotope analysis to determine the position of Neanderthals in the food chain. The
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Hammer of Thor is frequently mentioned in Norse mythology as a valuable object that belonged to the mighty thunder God Thor. Several
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AncientPages.com - When most people think about fairies, they perhaps picture the sparkling Tinker Bell from Peter Pan or the other heartwarming and cute fairies and fairy god
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A mural of an Aztec rabbit God of alcohol is not something anyone expected to across inside a church, but that's exactly what
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Impressive drone footage has revealed an ancient Mesopotamian city known as Lagash challenges long-held ideas about the origin and development of the world’s
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two beautiful over a 1,000 years old stone murals from the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) had been unearthed in central China's Henan Province.
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the site of Paneas (later known as Banias) within the Hermon Stream Nature Reserve have come across a hidden hoard
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Belize have found ancient Maya salt workers worked from home. The discovery was made during the excavation of Ta'ab Nuk Na,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The relationship between modern humans and neanderthals has been a subject of interest to anyone who wants to know more about our long-gone
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The amazing survival strategies of polar marine creatures might help to explain how the first animals on Earth could have evolved earlier
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Under the aegis of the University of Oslo, an international research team has extracted and analyzed plant DNA from the sediments of the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations in Syria are currently difficult and dangerous, especially in zones occupied by rebels. The recent finding has already been hailed as
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early farming in Scotland was a less smelly affair than elsewhere, as new research shows they did not need to use manure to fertilize
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth,
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Maps of climate in the distant past could provide insight into the future as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase. About
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DNA
AncientPages.com - The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, "for his
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists announce an interesting discovery of a 1,800-year-old bronze medal bearing a Medusa head. In Greek mythology, a monster was also called Gorgo,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - To gild sculptures in the late Middle Ages, artists often applied ultra-thin gold foil supported by a silver base layer. For the first
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The best way to prove some mythical stories were based on real events is through archaeology. On several occasions, myths and legends have
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many years ago, several statues depicting unusually looking people were discovered in a remote corner of the world. Some said the statues were
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Crannogs are fascinating ancient artificial islands in Britain and Ireland. Previous studies have revealed hundreds of crannogs, mostly in Scotland, Ireland, and Northern
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –We rely on climate models to predict the future, but models cannot be fully tested as climate observations rarely extend back more than
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - To learn more about the cradle of civilization, scientists rely on archaeology, ancient history, paleontology, and the study of DNA that help researchers
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Pyramids are frighteningly anonymous structures. Pharaohs built huge and well-constructed pyramids, tombs, and temples to glorify themselves and to be remembered after death, but
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AncientPages.com - Sixty six million years ago, sea monsters really existed. They were mosasaurs, huge marine lizards that lived at the same time as the last dinosaurs. Growing
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AncientPages.com - Sexuality was central to life in ancient Mesopotamia, an area of the Ancient Near East often described as the cradle of western civilisation roughly corresponding to modern-day Iraq,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This ancient, huge ceramic jar is one of those artifacts produced for reasons modern scientists cannot understand, at least not yet. The Iron
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Sikait Project research team, directed by Professor Joan Oller Guzmán from the Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies at the UAB,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A corroded Roman bowl dated to the Late Iron Age (between 43 and 410 AD) contains traces of chlorobenzenes, a chemical once used
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During the excavations at Carrignacurra Castle in Cork, in the south-west of Ireland, archaeologists unearthed several ancient finds. Archaeological excavations at Carrignacurra Castle
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This archaeological discovery came to light when a group of treasure hunters excavated illegally in the Tusba district of Van, Turkey. These activities
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