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Batavia Shipwreck Reveals Secrets Of 17th-Century Dutch Seafaring Domination

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many Dutch ships passed the West Australian coast while enroute to Southeast Asia in the 1600s—and the national heritage listed shipwreck, Batavia, has revealed through its timbers the history of the shipbuilding materials that enabled Dutch East India Company (VOC) to flourish against major European rivals for the first time. The […]

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Surprising Evidence Of Prehistoric Human Activity In Falkland Islands – Europeans Were Not The First Settlers

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University of Maine-led study, however, suggests otherwise; that human activity on the islands predates European arrival

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Ancient Chaco Canyon Was Much More Than A Ceremonial Site New Study Reveals

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While some current scientific theories point to ancient Chaco Canyon, a distinctive archaeological site in the American southwest, as simply a prehistoric ceremonial site populated only during sacred rituals — University of Cincinnati researchers are turning that popular belief on its head. “The ancestral puebloans interacted with the local ecosystem

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Living Descendant Of Legendary Native American Leader Sitting Bull Confirmed Using DNA From Hair

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A man’s claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull has been confirmed using DNA extracted from Sitting Bull’s scalp lock. This is the first time ancient DNA has been used to confirm a familial relationship between living and historical individuals. The confirmation was made possible

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Mystery Of The Tarim Basin Mummies Continues

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As part of the Silk Road and located at the geographical intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long served as a major crossroads for trans-Eurasian exchanges of people, cultures, agriculture, and languages. Since the late 1990s, the discovery of hundreds of naturally mummified human

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Mysterious Ancient Shapeshifters Who Guided Humans And The Battle Of The Gods Described In Sacred Texts And Myths

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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – From sacred, ancient texts and myths, we are told these being mysterious were very wise and could prophecy forthcoming events, but they were unwilling to reveal the secrets of the future. They talked and behaved like humans, but they were no ordinary humans, nevertheless. Some ancient sources tell these enigmatic

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Previously Unkown Manuscript Reveals New Insight Into Medieval Christian Beliefs In England

Previously Unknown Manuscript Reveals New Insight Into Medieval Christian Beliefs In England

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A rare English illuminated medieval prayer roll, believed to be among only a few dozen still in existence worldwide, has been analyzed in a new study to expose Catholic beliefs in England before the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Now in private hands and previously unknown to experts, this meter-long

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Legendary Lost Island Of Gold Of The Mysteriously Vanished Srivijaya Civilization Found Underwater

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Magnificent ancient treasures discovered by local fishermen in Indonesia‘s Musi River may be the beginning of a great archaeological and historical story. The artifacts date back to the Srivijaya civilization, a powerful kingdom between the 7th and 13th centuries which mysteriously vanished a century later. Scientists now suggest the artifacts

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Invention Of Ancient Military Technologies Throughout World History Investigated

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Peter Turchin from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues set out to test competing theories about what drove the evolution of war machines throughout world history. Their study, published today in the journal PLOS ONE, sees the strongest influence on the evolution of military technology coming

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