Birds Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Birds were an important source of food for hunter-gatherer communities in Upper Mesopotamia at the beginning of the Neolithic period, around 9,000 years
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a new light on early humans as woodworking masters, according to a new study. State-of-the-art analysis of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This magnificent artwork was discovered in a palace at Amarna, ancient Egypt's capital, during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten (1347–1332 B.C). The ancient
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent's earliest humans consumed the eggs of a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals, our closest relatives, became extinct between 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Since the discovery of the first Neanderthal fossil 165 years ago,
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Birds have always been important in the mythologies of many cultures worldwide. Almost all beliefs of ancient people have myths and legends associated with
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among the Aesir gods in Norse mythology, the supreme god Odin is frequently depicted sitting on his high seat, Hlidskjalf, in Asgard, the home of
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - Ancient Pages.com - In Greek mythology, the Stymphalian Birds with beaks and wings of iron looked like winged maidens with birds’ feet. While shape-shifting into sirens, they lured people
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