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Nostalgic Old Trades Facing Extinction in Mauritius, Like a Doomed Dodo
... but also from East Africa, Madagascar, China and Southeast Asia. By 1838, 24,000 Indians had reached Mauritius in this ...
micki pistorius - 19/08/2018 - 01:59
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True Remains of the Saint Behind the Santa Myth Believed Found in Turkey
... Claus begins with Saint Nicholas. Nicholas was born in Asia Minor (Greek Anatolia in present-day Turkey) in the ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 05/10/2017 - 22:55
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Neanderthals faced extinction before humans appeared, but recovered
... than 50,000 years and individuals from sites in western Asia and the Middle East showed a high degree of genetic ...
aprilholloway - 24/02/2014 - 22:33
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Chaluka: A Site so Remote, The Ancient Aleutians of Alaska Lived in Peace for Millennia
... Ancient Bronze Artifacts in Alaska Reveals Trade with Asia Before Columbus Arrival The Aleuts and Chaluka The ...
Ed Whelan - 29/04/2019 - 01:35
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The Incredible Rock-Cut Temples of Ancient India
... out rock faces was imported from ancient China to Central Asia, where excavating and decorating them was viewed as a ...
ashley cowie - 31/03/2020 - 01:10
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Twelve Degrees of Separation: Do Human Haplogroups Lead Us to Adam or Perhaps the Adityas?
... the middle east, the Indian subcontinent, and South East Asia. It suggests that they migrated, looked for, and found ...
Steven Keith - 13/06/2018 - 18:57
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Neanderthal Mother, Denisovan Father! Concrete Proof that Hybrid Hominin Families Did Exist
Together with their sister group the Neanderthals, Denisovans are the closest extinct relatives of currently living humans. "We knew from previous studies that Neanderthals and Denisovans must have occasionally had children together," says Viviane Slon, researcher at the MPI-EVA and one of three first authors of the study. "But I never thought we would be so lucky as to find an actual offspring of the two groups."
ancient-origins - 23/08/2018 - 14:02
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Priapus Fresco Tips the Scales in Pompeii
... worshipped by Greek colonists in Lampsacus in Asia Minor but the cult of Priapus spread to mainland Greece ...
ashley cowie - 23/08/2018 - 18:50
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Wing Bone Indicates Swan Shamanism Could Be 420,000 Years Old!
... land bridge, which linked the American continent with Asia through till around 10,500 years ago. (fig. 6) John ...
Andrew Collins - 01/10/2019 - 14:04
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Long-lost Nomad City of the Xiongnu Empire Found in Mongolia
... tribal confederation who created a huge empire in Central Asia (300 BC to 100 AD). The Xiongnu fought a series of wars ...
Ed Whelan - 21/07/2020 - 13:59
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The Cataclysm of Easter Island - Part 1
... thousands of years of trans-Pacific contact that spanned Asia, Oceania and the Americas? First, let us look at a ...
davidchildress - 08/07/2013 - 11:09
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2,500-year-old Celtic tomb with richly adorned body may belong to a Prince or Princess
... of Europe. In 278 BC one band of Celts went as far east as Asia Minor and gave their name to Galatia. The Celts sacked ...
Mark Miller - 18/06/2015 - 14:12
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Finnish Study Reveals Human Bones Were Used to Make Jewelry in 6,000 BC
During the Late Stone Age, our prehistoric ancestors regularly constructed and presumably wore pendants covered with symbolic images. These pendants were often made out of animal bones and teeth, but revolutionary new research reveals that human bones were also used to make this popular form of ancient jewelry.
Nathan Falde - 07/07/2022 - 14:59
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Do Ancient Baby Teeth Really Prove Sexism In Ancient China?
... of Hairpins and Hairdo’s of Ancient Women in Eastern Asia ‘ Night Revels of Han Xizai ’ -a painting depicting ...
ashley cowie - 21/03/2020 - 21:57
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A 7,700-Year-Old Case of Death During Childbirth in Siberia
... this practice at several other sites in northeastern Asia.” Archaeologist Angela Lieverse, who studies such ...
Mark Miller - 01/06/2018 - 03:08
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Viking Age Treasures Clean Up Nicely: Galloway Hoard Reveals New Secrets
... amazing trajectories that brought them across Europe and Asia to be buried in Galloway. But we are learning more about ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 15/12/2020 - 23:56
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New Information on the Petralona Skull Controversy
Ancient Origins has recently presented the debate about the skull found in Petralona, Greece. This debate has been continuing in the scientific community for more than half a century. While the Greek government has tried to supress information regarding the skull and disallow Dr Aris Poulianos and his collaborators from carrying out further research, many scientists have spoken out in support.
nickospoulianos - 24/02/2014 - 01:05
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Channel Island Hopping In Search of Illusive Ictis
... from rich alluvial deposits across Europe and Central Asia, nowhere held as much tin as St. Austell, Bodmin and ...
ashley cowie - 09/01/2023 - 22:52
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Ancient Greeks Purged City-States of Disease and the Most Vulnerable
... Greek poet Hipponax, who lived in Colophon, a city in Asia Minor – modern-day Turkey. Often two people were ...
ancient-origins - 24/03/2020 - 01:00
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Mass grave discovered under Uffizi Gallery in Florence
... was nearly worldwide in scope, striking central and south Asia; North Africa and Arabia; and Europe all the way to ...
aprilholloway - 13/02/2014 - 01:04