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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Places
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Hidden deep in the Peruvian Amazon is a remarkable enormous face carved into stone cliffs. The “Face Of The Amarakarei“ has been there
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The underground city of Nushabad, known as Ouyi to locals is located 8 km north of Kashan in Esfahan province, central Iran. It's
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw using aerial photographs and geophysical surveys, confirmed the location of settlement dating back more than two thousand years in Respublikaniec (Kherson
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the mountains of the Syrian desert - covered with with unknown rock formations, stone circles and mysterious lines of stone - there is
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - After 10 years of excavations, Israeli archaeologists have finally solved “one of Jerusalem’s greatest archaeological mysteries” — identifying the location of the Acra, an infamous fortress used by ancient
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - The Citadel of Machaerus - a fortified hilltop palace - was built upon a conical peak of basalt, located in Jordan fifteen miles (24 km) southeast of
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Ancient Mysteries
AncientPages.com - Many people consider Mt. Shasta to be one of the most sacred places on Earth. This majestic mountain - a part of the Cascade Mountain Range, located
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Leiden Egyptologist Ben Haring has deciphered a list of words engraved on a shard of pottery from the 15th century B.C. and determined that it is
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - In the ancient cemetery at Ibbankatuwa in Dambulla, located in the Matale District, Central Province of Sri Lanka, archaeologists unearthed graves that date back to the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - New impressive findings have come to light in the archaeological excavations at the site of the Asklepieion in ancient Pheneos, in the Peloponnese. Among them are
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - One of the major forces, which influenced the rise and fall of agrarian states in Mexico and Peru was climate variability, according to researchers a new
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mysterious, holy stones of Mzoura have a very long and obscured past. "For in these stones is a mystery and a healing virtue against
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mysterious Kültepe was once part of the kingdom of the Hittites. Excavations revealed ancient artifacts, clay tablets, and intriguing prehistoric structures. Kültepe still
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Does Celtic art have links into the wider Eurasian world? Now, researchers focus their attention onto the relationship between Celtic art and Iron Age art in
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Two ‘hero stones’ believed to be from the 13th century have been discovered by faculty members of the Department of Tamil, Sacred Heart College in Tirupattur,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - In the history of Indian spirituality the most important scriptural sources are Vaishnava sacred texts – The Mahabharata (including Bhagavad-gita), The Ramayana, and the The Srimad
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - The 'Epic of Gilgamesh' - devoted to gods, mortals, and monsters - is considered one of the first masterpieces of World Literature and tells the story of
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Undoubtedly, a mysterious tomb KV55 located in the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank in Luxor is one of Egypt's most debated ancient places. Tomb
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An inscription of Vijayanagara King Bukkaraya I has been discovered near Kollur in Udupi district. This is said to be the earliest inscription of Bukkaraya found
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Since ancient times India is well-known for its long tradition of spiritual customs. At the same time there is no other country on
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1952 archaeologists conducting excavations in Israel discovered a layer of fused green glass. The layer was a quarter of an inch thick and
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archeologists in North China's Shanxi Province have excavated a rare turtle-shaped brick tomb dating back to about 800 years. The tomb of the mid to late Jin
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many people believe that one of the oldest astronomical observatories is Stonehenge. However, an ancient and spectacular Sunduki (or "home of the gods") could
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - Ancient Pages.com - Throughout all the Americas there are a number of legends of secret of subterranean passages stretching for miles. Did perhaps our ancestors for
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - A recently launched project that is performing CAT scans on the remains of Pompeii victims contained within plaster casts has revealed that good health was widespread
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Viking Age (ca. 800 to 1050) was a time of increased contact with other countries. People from Scandinavia plundered and traded in
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Civilization in Ancient Egypt means tombs, pyramids, and all aspects of human life. Prehistoric physicians in Egypt had an impressive knowledge of the
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - A massive ancient tomb recently opened in northern Greece was likely a monument to Hephaestion, the close companion of Alexander the Great, experts working on the
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Aboriginal society has preserved memories of Australia's coastline dating back more than 7,000 years, researchers say. After three years of painstaking research, University of the Sunshine
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - A rare 3,000-year-old seal, from the time of King David in the 10th century BCE, was recently discovered by a 10-year-old Russian volunteer at Jerusalem’s Temple
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A black basalt slab known as the Rosetta Stone was found by a French artillery officer Boussard during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign in 1799.
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Long-term excavations at the Hellenistic city of Pisidia Antiocheia, an important center of early Christianity revealed that the settlement was occupied since the Neolithic age. The
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Three massive, mysterious amphoras have been unearthed during excavations in the Kaniş-Kültepe-Karum archaeological field in Kayseri. While still unsure as to their use, experts said it
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Armenia is one of the oldest countries in the world. Scientific researches, archaeological findings, old cuneiform inscriptions, ancient maps and even the Holy Bible provide lots of
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - A Bronze Age burial site has recently been discovered in Azerbaijan. Parviz Gasimov, an official at the Archeology and Ethnography Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers led by André Strauss of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, presents evidence for a 9,000 year-old
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - A British archaeological team from the Field Museum and Oxford University conducted excavations between 1923 and 1929 in Kish City, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad.
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry granted preliminary approval for the use of a non-invasive radar to verify a theory that Queen Nefertiti's crypt may be hidden behind
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists may have finally uncovered the lost tomb of the Maccabees - Matityahu the Hasmonean and his five sons, from the ancient city of Modi'in -
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - A mask of a satyr, a male companion of ancient wine god Dionysus with horse-like features, has been discovered near the town of Vetren in Southern
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - One of the richest Bronze Age cemeteries in the Polish lands has been discovered by archaeologists near the village Dunino in the commune Krotoszyce (Lower Silesia).
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Yangshan Quarry is famous for an unfinished stele of huge size that was abandoned there during the reign of the Yongle Emperor,
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