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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Cincinnati Art Museum turned to a scientist at the University of Cincinnati for help solving a mystery 1,300 years in the making.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many people living today have a small component of Neanderthal DNA in their genes, suggesting an important role for admixture with archaic human
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent discoveries in Bergama (Pergamon), the ancient city in West Anatolia are fascinating. Excavations in the ancient city of Pergamon (Pergamum of Mysia
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AncientPages.com - Neanderthals have served as a reflection of our own humanity since they were first discovered in 1856. What we think we know about them has been shaped
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using fossilized eggs in up to 2,500-year-old feces from Viking settlements in Denmark and other countries, researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Department
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals are the closest relatives to modern humans. Comparisons with them can therefore provide fascinating insights into what makes present-day humans unique, for
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The recent rescue excavation of a 2nd century BCE burial site in the southern Tuscany region of Italy is providing a previously unseen
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It really doesn't matter whether the person is young or older, it's a find of a lifetime. Still, to a youngster who is
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in central Turkey report they have come across traces of permanent settlement dating back at least 9,300 years. "We can say that
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One never knows what can be hidden in the ground of one’s backyard. That’s what a man in Norway realized after noticing two
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of Israeli archaeologists unearthed the gigantic tusk of a prehistoric elephant near Kibbutz Revadim in southern Israel. These enormous animals once
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Conny Waters- AncientPages.com - Strange mythical beasts appear in tales worldwide. In most cases, their description fits a specific category, and it's possible to define the nature of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hominin fossils discovered at the Toros-Menalla site in Chad’s Djurab desert have substantially contributed to scientists’ understanding of early human evolution in Africa.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com – Notable works of art are the subject of long-lasting scientific controversies. One such great masterwork is the so-called Farnese Cup (Tazza Farnese), stored
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Our ancestors dealt with large-scale environmental challenges thousands of years ago. Understanding their traditional practices may inform modern Europeans racing to adapt to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The pyramids of Giza constitute one of the world’s most iconic cultural landscapes and have fascinated humanity for thousands of years. How these
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair has been discovered in a woman's grave. The excavation team unearthed the chair
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2004, construction workers in Norwich, U.K., unearthed human skeletal remains that led to a historical mystery—at least 17 bodies at the bottom
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have investigated the importance of ancient Roman funerary meals focusing on what products were used to prepare the food offerings. "Ancient written
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As grave markers, tombstones offer a focus for mourning and commemoration. Typically made of stone and usually engraved with the deceased's name, date
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a curious, ancient inscription near the Sea of Galilee. The ancient Greek inscription uncovered by archaeologists from Kinneret College in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - US Agents in Memphis have seized a precious ancient artifact. The 3,000-year-old Egyptian artifact was hidden in a canopic jar lid of a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Canoes constructed out of a single trunk were widely used throughout the whole American continent. In many societies whose way of life centered
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A group of international researchers has uncovered evidence of a super rare genetic condition that gives men an extra X chromosome, reporting the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A statue depicting Apollo, a god associated with fire, light, sun and reality in Greek mythology, was unearthed by archaeologists, excavating the ruins
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using new scientific tools, University of Cincinnati archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior likely grew up
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a trio of papers, published simultaneously in the journal Science, Ron Pinhasi from the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and Human Evolution and Archaeological
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As the ice melts, glacial archaeologists have made many fascinating discoveries recently. Scientists from the Secrets Of The Ice, a glacier archaeology program
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - If three ancient bodies buried in Indonesia could talk, researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) say they would tell stories of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest human settlement in Iran discovered so far is announced by the team co-led by Iranian archaeologist Hamed Vahdati and French paleoanthropologist Gilles
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While excavating the synagogue in the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists discovered a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Românesti, one of the most important
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete, where
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Research has established that there are traces of Neandertal DNA in the genome of modern humans. Now an exploratory study that assessed the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - By analyzing DNA with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has developed a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research reveals more information about the LSU Campus Mounds, including the discovery of thousands of years old charred mammal bone fragments and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The remains of a famous Sami woman have been identified amongst Karolinska Institutet's anatomical collections. Representatives from the medical history and heritage department
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This summer's hot weather has been extremely troublesome in many European countries. Spain suffered the worst drought in decades. An unexpected side-effect of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages..com - A thorough scientific examination of a Medieval map may confirm a Welsh myth and offer evidence of the long-lost sunken kingdom Cantre'r Gwaelod.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - According to a long-lasting theory, South America was populated by ancient humans who arrived in North America from Siberia approximately 14,000 to 17,000
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Sweden have every reason to be excited after learning a mountain climber came across an extraordinary 1,200-year-old brooch. Based on recent
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