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Linguistic Discoveries
AncientPages.com - The naming process, the act of naming the items of the world, is as old as the first words spoken by our ancestors. We can reconstruct the stages
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Human Beginnings
AncientPages.com - The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study that integrates linguistic evidence with data from archeology and paleoclimatology reveals that the first languages in North America can be
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A few years ago, archaeologists excavating an Iron Age site known as Irulegi in northern Spain discovered a flat bronze artifact shaped like
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Easter Island's enigmatic Rongorongo script remains undeciphered, but a new study offers evidence that it represents an independent writing system. Moai on Easter
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Boğazköy-Hattusha in north-central Turkey have discovered a new Indo-European language. This was once the capital
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have tried to solve the enduring mystery of language evolution, and it seems something that happened 70,000 years ago may shed light
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Can the nearly 7,000-year-old Gradeshnitsa Tablets offer evidence of one of the world's oldest human writing? Are the carved signs and symbols on
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - When did humans first begin to speak, which speech sounds were uttered first, and when did language evolve from those humble beginnings? These questions have long
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The alphabet was invented around 1800 BCE and was used by the Canaanites and later by most other languages in the world. Until
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at the time, the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most people around the world agree that the made-up word 'bouba' sounds round in shape, and the made-up word 'kiki' sounds pointy --
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The origin and early dispersal of Transeurasian languages, including, among others, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, is among the most disputed issues
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Google’s new tool named Fabricius is a promising translator that will attempt to decipher hieroglyphs and ancient Egyptian images. The AI (Artificial Intelligence)
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Etruscan language has never been conclusively shown to be related to any other language in the world. The writing remains poorly understood.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study of ancient DNA samples reveals some Northern Europeans came from Siberia. Researchers extracted DNA from the tooth roots of 56 individuals, 33
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Boontling language was invented sometime in the 1800s, but it’s unclear by whom. Some think parents made the language so they could talk
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Dating back to 500 B.C., the Pyrgi gold tablets were discovered in 1964 in an excavation of a sanctuary in ancient Pyrgi, the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Bora people are an indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon. Scientists have discovered the tribe us their manguaré drums not to only to produce
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The fact that we use a language today is so obvious that most don’t contemplate when, where and how humans started using a language to communicate.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - While chronicling Saint Catherine’s Monastery’s library on the Sinai Peninsula, scientists discovered several scriptures with ancient lost languages. In ancient times monks often wrote copies of the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Few manuscripts have caused as much controversy and debate as the mysterious Voynich manuscript. Is it a hoax or a genuine book? It seems the verdict is
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did you know that about three billion people speak languages that all originate from one root language that was spoken about 6,000 years ago?
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News
AncientPages.com - On November 24, 1996, Sorley MacLean, one of the most distinguished poets, died. Sorley MacLean, (in Gaelic: Somhairle Macgill-Eain) will be remembered as one of the greatest
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Runes played an essential part in the lives of the Vikings. Unfortunately, there are few remains of runic writing on paper from the Viking
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