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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers examined the Longquan celadon (high-quality glazed ceramic pottery) industry, located in Zhejiang province in China, which flourished mainly between the Southern Song
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A recent expedition by an archaeology team from the Universities of Auckland and Canterbury to Enderby in the Auckland Island archipelago plans to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge (UK) in the 7th century with an incredibly rare gold and garnet cross (the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It was during the winter of 2022, archaeologists conducted excavations in two areas at Framlingham Road, Laxfield, Suffolk. The site, showing the evaluation
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique hog-shaped pottery item - probably a child's toy approximately 6,000 years ago, was unearthed in east China's Jiangsu Province. The pottery pig
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The five new archaeological sites have been discovered in the Megalopolis lignite mine in southern Greece contain valuable faunal and cultural remains belonging
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birch tar is the oldest synthetic substance made by early humans, and those humans were in the long past - Neanderthals. But the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For at least three million years, knapping stone has been practiced by hominin societies large and small, past and present. Thus, understanding knapping,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A research team led by the University of Cambridge say it is the oldest example we have of this diarrhea-causing parasite infecting humans
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The medieval trading center of Rungholt, which is today located in the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage Site and currently the focus of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This fragment of a fine marble statuette of Heracles, about half a meter high, that was discovered a few years ago at Horbat
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists unearthed a 500-year-old funerary bundle and pottery during work on a natural gas line near Lima’s central coastline. The bundle, wrapped in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In excavations carried out on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the City of David, within the Jerusalem Walls National Park, and funded
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest scale plans of human made megastructures are reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE on May 17, 2023. The engravings, dated
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day US Virgin Islands on his second voyage across the Atlantic in 1493, the islands were already
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists performing rescue work on section 7 of the Maya Train route have accidentally discovered a unique stone sculpture of the Mayan god
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 1914, two beads were found under the great ziggurat of Aššur in Iraq, in a foundation deposit dating from around 1800-1750 BC.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Four ancient Egyptian artefacts that were illegally smuggled to Italy have found their way home. The artefacts were handed over to the Egyptian
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An Egyptian team of archaeologists has discovered a collection of structure relics dated to the Byzantine and Late Period in Meir Necropolis in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The underground of the city of Naples has no doubt many undiscovered secrets. The remains of the ancient necropolis of Neapolis- located about 10
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The geochemistry of copper artifacts reveals changes in distribution networks across prehistoric Europe, according to a study published May 10, 2023, in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - "The loss of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia in 1629 on the Houtman Abrolhos off the west coast of Australia and subsequent
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An old city of Stratonikeia Stratonicea) has rich historical records going back 3,000 years. The council building at the ancient city of Stratonicea,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Since autumn 2021, archaeologists of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) have been excavating the area of the former Roman shore fort on
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists at Flinders University have used sub-surface imaging and aerial surveys to see through floodplains in the Red Lily Lagoon area of West
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first modern humans spread across Europe in three waves during the Paleolithic, according to a new study. The archaeological record of Paleolithic
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Artifacts made of stone, bones or teeth provide important insights into the subsistence strategies of early humans, their behavior and culture. However, until
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Archaeologists have discovered one of the oldest Cyrillic inscriptions from the time of King Simeon the Great This important discovery was made in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An impressive discovery of the 2,000-year-old tomb with human remains that belong to a Roman physician, aged between 50 and 60 years, with
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford's School of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Persistent burial practices over many centuries challenge simplistic assumptions about ancient culture. View across Boquerón Bay, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, with the Ortiz
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early human foragers may have relied on eating the partially digested vegetable matter, called digesta, found in the stomachs and digestive tracts of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This isn't the first time the price of eggs has skyrocketed. During the mid-19th-century gold rush, San Francisco's population ballooned from around 800
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Polynesian peoples are renowned for their advanced sailing technology and for reaching the most remote islands on the planet centuries before the Europeans
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team led by the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, has successfully completed the
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AncientPages.com - It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study of great importance sheds vivid light on pioneering female migrants who made their way to Orkney during the Bronze Age
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Simon Fraser University researchers are learning more about ancient graffiti—and their intriguing comparisons to modern graffiti—as they produce a state-of-the-art 3D recording of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People living on the ‘Swahili coast’ - the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa - have African and Asian ancestry according to new
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient mosaic floor adorned with colorful floral designs has been re-uncovered after 40 years, along the Israel National Trail. The mosaic floor
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations led by researchers from the University of Gothenburg show that the coveted metal copper and a sheltered location turned the Cypriot village
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Old Dongola is today a deserted town in what is now Northern State, Sudan, located on the east bank of the Nile opposite
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