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Mysterious Code Hidden In Antique Silk Dress Bought In Maine Finally Deciphered!
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Long considered impossible to decipher, we can now finally learn the truth about the mysterious code found hidden in an old silk dress in Maine, USA. The intriguing story started when Sara Rivers Cofield spotted a silk dress in an antique mall in Maine. Being an archaeologist who also also collects old dresses and handbags…
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DNA From 10,000-Year-Old Scandinavian Chewing Gum Reveals Stone Age Diet
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the early 1990s, excavations took place at Huseby-Klev, an early Mesolithic hunter-fisher site on the Swedish west coast, where a piece of ancient chewing gum was found. The masticates were made out of birch bark tar and used as glue in tool production and other types of technology during the Stone Age. However, at…
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Ancient Egyptian Tombs With Stunning Trove Of Artifacts And Human Remains Unearthed In Saqqara
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Saqqara necropolis in Egypt has revealed more of its ancient secrets. A remarkable 4,000-year-old tomb has been unearthed by the joint archaeological mission from Waseda University in collaboration with the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). Credit: Supreme Council of Antiquities Carved into the rock, the ancient tomb sheds new light on ancient Egyptians’ craftsmanship…
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Knaresborough Hoard Reveals Its Secrets – Unusual Roman Discovery In The British Isles
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have investigated one of the most unusual late-Roman metalware ever discovered in the British Isles. The Knaresborough Hoard was discovered about 1864, but no one has examined the treasure properly until now. The circumstances surrounding the find have been unclear. Experts have long debated the truth behind the Knaresborough Hoard. The Knaresborough Hoard. Credit:…
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Pieces Of A 1,000-Year-Old Manuscript Belonging To A Refugee English Princess Found
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the Norman Conquest. Credit: Regionaal Archief Alkmaar Many books were printed and bound in…
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Large Mammoth Tusk And Bones Buried For Thousands Of Years Found In North Dakota
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Coal miners in North Dakota have discovered a 7-foot-long (2.1 meters) mammoth tusk that had been buried for thousands of years. A shovel operator at the Freedom Mine near Beulah was working the overnight shift when he suddenly spotted a flash of something white as he scooped up a giant mound of dirt and dropped…
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New England’s Abandoned Stone Walls Deserve A Science Of Their Own
AncientPages.com – The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere—a latticework of dry, lichen-crusted stone ridges separating a patchwork of otherwise moist soils. Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are…
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Has The Mystery Of Cerne Abbas Giant Been Solved?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A centuries-old mystery may finally have been solved. Cerne Abbas Giant, the 180ft (55-meter) tall club-wielding man in Dorset, UK, has long been considered a fertility sign due to his large, erect phallus. The Cerne Abbas Giant was carved out of a chalk hillside above Cerne Abbas village, Dorset, England. Credit: Adobe Stock – David…
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First Carbon-Based Paleolithic Paintings Found In Font-De-Gaume Cave, France Could Be 19,000 Years Old
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – On 12 September 1901, Denis Peyrony, a local schoolmaster, stepped inside the Font-De-Gaume Cave. He discovered marvelous prehistoric cave paintings that our ancient ancestors created during the Magdalenian period. Cro-Magnon artists painting in Font-de-Gaume, by Charles R. Knight from the book the Artist Who Saw Through Time, 1920. Credit: Public Domain Located in Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, in…
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2,000 Years Ago Mysterious Foreigner With Unique Ancestry Traveled To Cambridgeshire – Who Was He?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating near the village of Offord Cluny in Cambridgeshire have discovered the remains of a man who lived between AD 126–228 during the Roman period and did not originally come from a rural farmstead near where he was buried but likely thousands of miles away, possibly outside of the Roman Empire. Archaeologists excavate the…
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