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Touching Discovery of 2,000-Year-Old Toys Inside Ancient Greek Child Tombs | Ancient Origins
29/1/2026 | 4 mins.
Archaeologists made a moving discovery inside the 2,000-year-old tombs of children in the ancient Greek seaport city of Parion, now in modern-day Turkey. Excavations of several ancient graves revealed a number of children’s toys, which are believed to have been offered as gifts for the dead children to accompany them on their journey to the afterlife.
Could Resurrecting Mammoths Help Stop Arctic Emissions? | Ancient Origins
29/1/2026 | 6 mins.
If you managed to time travel back to Ice-Age Europe, you might be forgiven for thinking you had instead crash landed in some desolate part of the African savannah. But the chilly temperatures and the presence of six-ton shaggy beasts with extremely long tusks would confirm you really were in the Pleistocene epoch
Sealed Medieval Reliquary Cross Not To Be Opened Under Any Circumstances | Ancient Origins
28/1/2026 | 5 mins.
A sealed medieval reliquary cross has been found intact at Lystra in central Turkey - and conservators say it will remain unopened. What relic might it have been made to hold?
The ‘Real’ St. Valentine Was No Patron of Love | Ancient Origins
28/1/2026 | 8 mins.
On Feb. 14, sweethearts of all ages will exchange cards, flowers, candy, and more lavish gifts in the name of St. Valentine. But as a historian of Christianity, I can tell you that at the root of our modern holiday is a beautiful fiction. St. Valentine was no lover or patron of love.
30,000-Year-Old Hunter's Toolkit Reveals Stone Age Survival Strategies | Ancient Origins
28/1/2026 | 4 mins.
30,000-year-old Stone Age hunter's toolkit discovered in Czech Republic reveals Ice Age survival strategies, trade networks, and sophisticated tool use by Gravettian peoples.

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About The Ancient Origins News Desk

At Ancient Origins we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there exists countless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts that have yet to be discovered and explained .

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