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Unearthing Balua: Journey through Jordan’s ancient Moabite, Ammonite heritage
It appears that a god named Milkom or El was a primary deity among the Ammonites, or at least among the elite. Among the ...
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Snakestones: the myth, magic and science of ammonites
We now know ammonites are extinct cephalopod molluscs related to squids and octopuses, which lived in the seas of the Mesozoic Era between about 201 and 66 million years ago. They are preserved as ...
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Hokkaido artist’s passion for ammonites leads to encyclopedia
Koichi Fukuoka’s career as a copperplate engraver took an unexpected turn after he encountered fossils of ammonites, a spiral-shelled creature that lived in the age of the dinosaurs. The artist ...