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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters—AncientPages.com—The term "pancake" may have emerged in the 15th century and became standard in 19th-century America, but the history of pancakes stretches much further back. Astonishingly, evidence from
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Have scientists used the wrong term when referring to early humans as hunter-gatherers? According to new groundbreaking research, the answer is "yes," at
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There have always been several ways to prepare meals. Food can be cooked in different pots depending on the meal. Ancient people realized
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The site of Beg ar Loued on the island of Molène Finistère, France, makes it possible, for the first time on the European
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers can now show that early humans of the Middle Paleolithic had a more varied diet than previously assumed. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For many people, seaweed holds a reputation as a superfood, heralded for its health benefits and sustainability. Still, it appears our European ancestors
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rats in the kitchen. Typically that implies issues with cleanliness and safety. But in medieval Japan, having rats in the kitchen could suggest
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The fact that Neanderthals were able to make a fire and use it, among other things, for cooking, demonstrates their intelligence. "This confirms
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Excvations in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Lagash continue, and archaeologists report they have unearthed a 5,000-year-old food tavern. A close-up of the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from a variety of Spanish institutions have managed to reconstruct the diet of some 50 individuals buried more than 3,000 years ago
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The sustainable development of agriculture has laid a solid foundation for the birth of human civilization and countries. Early agriculture has long been
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - We humans can't stop playing with our food. Just think of all the different ways of serving potatoes—entire books have been written about potato recipes alone.
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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Palmyra has gripped public imagination since its picturesque ruins were "rediscovered" in the seventeenth century by western travelers. The most legendary story
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 5,000-year-old container, discovered behind a butcher's shop, is being exhibited at Kirkcaldy Galleries having been recently conserved by experts. Conservation has been
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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
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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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new Rice University-led analysis of the remains of ancient predators reveals new information about how prehistoric humans did—or didn't—find their food. "Sabertooth
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered the first insights
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What if Indigenous diets could save our politically and ecologically strained planet? The answer may lie in the success of an ancient civilization
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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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Ancient History Facts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient Egyptian egg ovens are an excellent example demonstrating one should not underestimate how clever our ancestors were. About 2,000 years ago,
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Pythagoras of Samos, an ancient Greek philosopher who made great contributions to mathematics and founded the Pythagorean School of Mathematics in Cortona, a
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In modern times fast food has become popular because many simply don’t have time or energy to prepare a proper meal. Ancient Romans loved
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Knights Templar, who decided to sacrifice their lives in the service of the Order, lived according to strict discipline and had to
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures left their traces in Mesopotamia and these cultures had very much in common. They cultivated the same kinds of crops
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - You might have tasted a Garibaldi biscuit that consists of two soft rectangular slabs of biscuits sandwiching a bed of currants, but do
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