Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Easter Island’s large and impressive stone-carved statues have long intrigued scientists and the public in general. Many have long wondered how the ancient people who inhabited this tiny remote volcanic island in Polynesia built such monumental works. Moai statues in the Rano Raraku Volcano in Easter Island, Chile. Credit: Adobe […]
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists who study the origins and evolution of the plague have examined hundreds of ancient human teeth from Denmark, seeking to address longstanding questions about its arrival, persistence and spread within Scandinavia. In the first longitudinal study of its kind, focusing on a single region for 800 years (between 1000
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland’s religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge. A combination of scientific and historical research is shedding light on the physical and chemical properties of medieval stained glass, as well as its wider religious meaning. Isle of Skye. Credit: Luis
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – How could a 3300-year-old story be commemorated and published millennia before televisions, radios, or posts were invented? The Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I provides a concise guide. The large stele in the picture depicts King Seti I (on the left) making an offering to Amun, the father of the gods (on
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – A frightening prophecy, battle with dangerous sea monsters, heroic deeds, and strange encounters with a shape-shifting troll are just some of the many adventures mentioned in the Örvar-Odds saga. Written in the 13th century by an anonymous Icelander Örvar-Odds Saga relates the life and death of legendary hero Örvar-Oddr, who
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –More than 100 years ago, Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Smithsonian Institution was asked to examine strange star-shaped fossils with lobes hailing from the ~ 514-million-year-old Conasauga Formation in Alabama. Walcott described these odd fossils as jellyfish that likely floated in the middle Cambrian seas of what is now the
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AncientPages.com – A headline bound to get you up in the morning — a 2,000 year old dildo from ancient Rome has just been discovered. The 16-centimetre wooden phallus was originally uncovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in Northumberland in 1992. It was originally catalogued as a darning tool – a sewing technique for repairing
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A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Wilhelm I Conqueror, also known as “William the Bastard” (ca. 1028 -1087), was King of England and Duke of Normandy. William was the son of Herleva and Robert I, Duke of Normandy, in what was then known as Francia. He was often referred to as a bastard by his opponents
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Britain’s oldest shoe has been found on a beach in Kent. The shoe, made of leather, is 3,000 years old and was discovered by archaeologist Steve Tomlinson. When Tomlinson found the shoe, he did not think it was special, but he sent it for carbon dating at an East Kilbride,
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The saying “there is nothing new under the Sun” seems appropriate when we learn that sanitary hardware was invented long ago. Scientists have unearthed fragments of a 2,400-year-old flush toilet and a bent flush pipe among the ruins of a palace in the Yueyang archaeological site in the central city
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