Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Serving as Pharaoh in ancient Egypt was both prestigious and perilous. At the end of his reign, Pharaoh Apries lost the support of both the gods and his people. Betrayed, he was forced to flee Egypt. Some historical sources report that his own subjects ultimately killed him. Head of Pharaoh […]
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists working at an excavation site near Järvensuo in southwest Finland have discovered a 4,000-year-old wooden stick shaped like a snake. The sculpture – the carefully carved, 50-centimeters-long artifact from the Neolithic Stone Age – was found under a layer of peat by the shore of Muinaisjärvi lake. Radiocarbon dating of
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Serving as Pharaoh in ancient Egypt was both prestigious and perilous. At the end of his reign, Pharaoh Apries lost the support of both the gods and his people. Betrayed, he was forced to flee Egypt. Some historical sources report that his own subjects ultimately killed him. Mutiny, betrayal, and
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Knowing the weight of a commodity provides an objective way to value goods in the marketplace. But did a self-regulating market even exist in the Bronze Age? And what can weight systems tell us about this? A team of researchers from the University of Göttingen researched this by investigating the
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have identified remains of a new, previously unknown type of ‘Homo’ who lived in the region at the Nesher Ramla site side by side in the Levant for more than 100,000 years (200-100,000 years ago). These people shared knowledge and tool technologies. Static skull & mandible & parietal orthographic.
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – When saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and giant sloths roamed North America during the last Ice Age about 18,000 to 80,000 years ago, the Gulf Coast’s climate was only slightly cooler, more similar to regions to the north like Missouri and North Carolina’s climate today. As sea level dropped and exposed
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A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – “Those born with a birthmark, wolfish tufts of hair, or a caul on their head were believed to be werewolves.” 1 A man can become an exceptionally horrible creature, known in ancient folk and mythological beliefs as a werewolf. In ancient times, it was believed in the possibility of transforming
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Nineteenth- and 20th-century archaeologists often made sweeping claims about Native cultures, suggesting that everyone who lived in a particular region at a given time shared the same attitudes and practices. A Sterling pipestone effigy pipe of a bird pecking a human face. The pipe was found in Pike County, Illinois.
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A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – “Those born with a birthmark, wolfish tufts of hair, or a caul on their head were believed to be werewolves.” 1 A man can become an exceptionally horrible creature, known in ancient folk and mythological beliefs as a werewolf. In ancient times, it was believed in the possibility of transforming
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Denisova Cave in southern Siberia is the type locality of the Denisovans, an archaic hominin group who were related to Neanderthals. The dozen hominin remains recovered from the deposits also include Neanderthals and the child of a Neanderthal and a Denisovan, which suggests that Denisova Cave was a contact zone between
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