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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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists identified three archaeological sites in Llagaden community, Magdalena, Cajamarca, Peru. They also found archaeological evidence in the form of pottery remains, which date back to
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Keezhadi, a small hamlet in Sivaganga district, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a special place, where an important part
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1943, an ancient papyrus was bought by the Cairo museum. It was written in Hieratic and although portions of it were eaten away
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A 3.2 wide, double-faced wall was revealed during the systematic excavation and extended clearance work in the framework of the five-year-old programme “Ancient Feneos”, conducted by the Ephorate
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Artifacts
During excavations at Mexico City’s Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site, archaeologists have discovered a massive tzompantli, or trophy skull rack of sacrificed human skulls. It was built between
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AncientPages.com - The Natufians, who existed 15,000 – 11,500 years ago, represented a fascinating ancient culture. These people lived in there region known as the Levant (modern Palestine, Israel,
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed remains of pit houses and ditches that indicated boundaries at a site dating to the fourth century A.D. in Japan’s Nara Prefecture known
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Artifacts
A mutilated figurine of Ancient Roman god Mars has been found by archaeologists during the excavations of the Early Byzantine and medieval Bulgarian city of Missionis, also known
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AncientPages.com - The Archaeology and Ethnography Institute under the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences has discovered new archaeological materials during an excavation conducted on the frontline in Azerbaijan’s Agdam
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AncientPages.com - The Aşıklı Mound, where settlement first started in the Cappadocia region 11,000 years ago, offers a chance to travel back in time. Archaeological excavations have been
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Aviation technology has its beginnings in ancient India and the Hindus have designed the bases of aviation, along with interplanetary travel, thousands of
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AncientPages.com - This is Meteora, the word means: roughly, midair, in Greek. It's a special place that does seem to hang in the sky. It's a sanctuary of harmony
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - North America's largest cliff dwelling is known as 'Cliff Palace' and it's located in Mesa Verde, in the southwestern corner of Colorado. Great structures
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - We have seen on several occasions that our ancestors mastered sophisticated rock-cut architecture creating dwellings, tombs and temples that are truly a wonder of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Few people know about the remarkable Mangup cliff that together forms the most immense cavern fortress on the Crimean peninsula, about 9 miles
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AncientPages.com - Ancient Irish people carved images of an ancient eclipse into giant stones over 5,000 years ago, on November 30, 3340 BC to be exact. This is the
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AncientPages.com - Victory Tower (Vijaya Stambh) is one of many masterworks of India's architecture. It is located at Chittorgarh fort, in Rajasthan state, India. The tower is dedicated to the most
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Dedicated to Harshat Mata, goddess of joy and happiness, Chand Baori in India is one of the world's largest and most beautiful stepwells.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Most people have heard of the famous Great Wall of China, but not everyone knows that there is a magnificent ancient structure that is
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ruins extending over approximately 385,000 square miles are located in Zimbabwe, on the high plateau of southern Africa. The ruins contain the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - It is time to visit remarkable Vijayanagara, one of the most beautiful ancient places and one of the kingdoms of the Shining Ones. Vijayanagara
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The mysterious ancient Hongshan culture vanished thousands of years ago, but they left behind a number of absolutely astonishing jade figurines that we have
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Elfdalian (in Swedish: Älvdalska) is a very ancient relative of Swedish (maybe even more 'Swedish' than it is spoken today). Some call it
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AncientPages.com - The remains of an ancient Egyptian temple have been unearthed near Aswan in what Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh El-Damaty describes as a “very important” discovery A Swedish
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Examination of rock carvings in Arizona and New Mexico has led scientists to the conclusion that "Chinese explorers not only reached the Americas in
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Wari culture not only extended the irrigation systems already existing in Peru but also were the first using a terraced field technology and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Deep underground in the central Anatolian province of Nevsehir, the contours of an ancient city are taking shape, two years after it was discovered
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AncientPages.com - Examination of rock carvings in Arizona and New Mexico, has led scientists to the conclusion that "Chinese explorers not only reached the Americas in pre-Columbian times, but
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Solar Cult Complex in the temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari, reconstructed by a Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw mission, was opened to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The whereabouts of the homeland or homelands of the so-called Sea Peoples have been endlessly debated. In fact, not much is known about them;
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Of all the lost civilizations of Mesoamerica, that of the Olmec is the oldest and the most perplexing. We know very little about the
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AncientPages.com - A team of researchers led by Professor David Mattingly, of the University of Leicester's School of Archaeology and Ancient History, is investigating a lost civilization in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Is it just a coincidence or do certain laws of nature lie behind the phenomenon observed in the ancient Huashan Caves in China's Anhui
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Researchers say that our binary system is nothing but a re-invention based on ancient knowledge that existed centuries before the concept of a computer. 1827
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cahokia was one of the most sophisticated civilizations in North America. There are many questions without sufficient explanations regarding Cahokia's puzzling history. It was
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - These amazing engravings were drawn, long before ancient Egypt as we know it existed! The carvings are 20 feet in height and consist of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient Egyptian object known as the sistrum is often associated with Hathor, a goddess who personified the principles of joy, feminine love, and
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - German printer Johannes Gutenberg did not invent movable type printing; he contributed movable type mechanical printing technology in Europe in 1450. More than four centuries
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Prehistoric cultures often benefited from the knowledge of unknown very advanced technologically civilizations they co-existed with. A number of discoveries made around the world
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What did music in ancient Babylon sound like? No-one really knows, but based on ancient Mesopotamian poems it is possible to reconstruct some
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A new evidence related to an early (pre-Columbian) European presence in Arctic Canada has been examined in a study conducted by Dr. Patricia Sutherland, an honorary research fellow at
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Named after the healing god Asclepius, the Asclepion of Pergamum is a sacred site that existed as early as the 4th century BC.
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