Ancient Civilizations
Explore mysterious ancient civilizations and their legacy. We examine their buildings, artifacts, religion, rituals, scientific achievements, customs and traditions, inventions, government, geography, wars, cities, empires and much more.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Today, Pasargadae are ruins of an ancient city in southwestern Iran, in the village of Mashhad-e Murghab, in the Zagros mountains, at an altitude
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the great personalities of the ancient world is Hammurabi. Proud of his military achievements as a ruler of Babylon, he wanted
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AncientPages.com - Was there once an ancient, unknown Atacama Desert civilization? Atacama Today, Chile’s Atacama Desert, located between two mountain ranges, which prevent water from reaching its valleys and
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - It has already been called a finding that could re-write ancient Maya history. A quite spectacular discovery of two untouched ancient tombs found beneath Maya pyramids can unravel
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - White Temple was located in the sacred precinct of the god Anu in the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk (now, Warka), Iraq, which
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lugal-anne-mundu (Lugalannemundu) (ca. 25th century BC) was a powerful king and a great leader, who restored Sumer to its former glory. His influence
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Jama-Coaque Culture developed from 500 BC - 500 AD and was named for the modern towns of Jama and Coaque located in the
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Sami culture is the oldest in large areas of northern Europe. Before the Swedish, Finnish, or Viking culture had developed, the Scandinavian
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Yin Yang symbol is widely recognized throughout the world, but the beginning and philosophy related to this ancient symbol originate in ancient China and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Temple of the Condor in Machu Picchu is spectacular and one of many examples of extraordinary Inca stonemasonry. It is also one of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many ancient mysteries surround the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego, an island near the southern tip of South America. The Yaghan established
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Gamla Uppsala is one of the most important, sacred ancient Viking and Pagan sites in Sweden. Located just a few kilometers north of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many wonderful places to see in Peru, a land rich in history and filled with beauty. Most people have heard of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Siberia have found a grave containing a 4,500-year-old skeleton of a noblewoman. This intriguing ancient skeleton belongs to a woman who was a member
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Codex Borgia (or Codex Yoalli Ehēcatl) has a somewhat obscure past. There is a special group of mostly pre-Columbian manuscripts that originate from
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - On the morning of August 24, 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted and broke its centuries-long silence. Its great cloud of hot ash, stones, and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Ireland, the chambered round cairn of Newgrange, with its quartz walls and a passage aligned towards the midwinter sunrise, was placed inside
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The oldest evidence of printing is the stamping of inscriptions into the soft clay of bricks before firing. This was done by Sumerian
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Teotihuacán is an ancient site where the circumstances of its destruction are not entirely clear. The people who created it are completely unknown, and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sayhuite is an intriguing ancient site in Peru. Was it once an ancient city inhabited by an unknown civilization? The site located on top
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Scientists have been searching for an ancient temple dedicated to a winged warrior god Haldi for centuries. Was the temple just an ancient myth
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Tanis (dubbed "Luxor of the North"), an ancient area in the Nile Delta, Egypt, was an early subject of the archaeologists' interest. The city's
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once, it was the site of many temples, especially the temple of Seti I, and first of all, this very ancient city is strongly
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AncientPages.com - For the last 3,400 years, since 1350 B.C. two gigantic stone statues known as the Colossi of Memnon have been guarding the temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III,
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AncientPages.com - Many secrets are hidden in Teotihuacan, northeast of Mexico City, Mexico. Aztecs and the Toltecs, reached a place called Teotihuacan that was already enshrined in myth.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Akrotiri is situated in the south of the main island of Thera, also known as Santorini, which lies in the Aegean Sea, approximately
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AncientPages.com - According to a new study of the Dead Sea Scrolls Noah’s Ark was pyramid-shaped. This is assumption is based on a new interpretation of the Dead Sea
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bandelier National Monument is an archaeological area (50 square miles (130 km2) of the Pajarito Plateau, in the Jemez Mountains and 20 miles west of
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Will we ever solve the mystery of California's maze stones? A mysterious prehistoric maze stone is located on a hill west of the city
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Casa Grande Ruins are pre-Columbian ruins in south-central Arizona, U.S., in the Gila River valley just north of Coolidge. Discovered in 1694 by Jesuit
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bighorn Medicine Wheel in a sacred ancient site located on top of the Bighorn Range in Wyoming, USA. Although the Bighorn Medicine Wheel
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - You might have heard the term "Black Irish" before, but who were these people? Where did they live and come from? The term
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located in the territory of Sassari near Porto Torres, in northern Sardinia, Italy there is an intriguing ancient site known as Monte d'Accoddi,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Near Meteora, a beautiful and strange rock formation in ancient Greece, there are several intriguing ancient caves. One of them is the Theopetra
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Hittites were one of the most important ancient civilizations of Asia Minor. They ruled the central Anatolian kingdom of Hatti from c. 1900 – 800
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are about 3,600 known prehistoric grooves on stones scattered throughout the island of Gotland in Sweden. As many as 700 of them are
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The magnificent Borobudur is the world's largest Buddhist shrine, and one of the finest examples of eighth-century temple architecture. The Borobudur Temple, situated in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to the Amarna Letters and the annals of Thutmose III, Byblos ('Papyrus' in Greek) was dependent and subservient to Egypt for hundreds of years.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom was located in the easternmost region of the Hellenistic world. This ancient kingdom covered Bactria (northern Afghanistan) and lands to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages - Almost two thousand years ago, the Zapotec people built the city at the top of the mountain. This mysterious city, probably about 3000 years
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The first mention of Armenia in writing is the ca. 4000 BC Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, where the country was described as a rich
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com The fort of Vindolanda, one of the earliest Roman garrisons, built by the Roman army in England, is one of Europe's most important Roman archeological
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