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 - 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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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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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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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once the Burnt City, (original name: Shahr-e-Sookhteh) was the largest prehistoric city of Iran. Its inhabitants were of unknown origin. A true mystery surrounds
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AncientPages.com - Some researchers believe that the ruins of an ancient observatory and mysterious rock inscriptions in Russia's Northwest are vestiges of the ancient Hyperborea civilization, a sacred land
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AncientPages.com - Many of our modern inventions are not so modern at all. Several of our technological and scientific discoveries were used a long time ago in ancient India.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Sleeping Beauty of Loulan is an extraordinary 3,800-year-old mummy that until today is still preserved. It is one of 200 mummies found in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mount Kailash, which means "precious jewel of eternal snow" remains a place shrouded in mystery and legend. According to ancient beliefs, this enigmatic Tibetan
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Nimrud lens is 3,000-year-old object that could re-write the history of science. Although the telescope was officially invented in the 16th century,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The origin of the Ainu people in Japan is unknown. Although the word Ainu means "human", it has to be stated that these people
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AncientPages.com - The mythological history of the state of Chhattisgarh in the central part of India can be traced back to the days of Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Chhattisgarh
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Has the mysterious tomb of Cao Cao (155 - 220 AD) really been found or is the final resting place of this legendary ruler
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Four decades ago, a startling discovery was made, when a team of researchers led by the celebrated Greek-Russian archaeologist V.I.Sarianidi opened the Temple City
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Could Dwarka be the oldest civilization in human history? Krishna's legendary Dwarka built on the site of an even earlier sacred city, named Kususthali,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists exploring Lake Huron, one of the five Great Lakes of North America have found traces of an ancient lost civilization that is
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AncientPages.com - Nicknamed "Noah", because it was found in an area that experienced a great flood, this extraordinary skeleton has been lying hidden in the basement of the Penn
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AncientPages.com - The discovery of the Ness of Brodgar – a complex of ancient monumental buildings has forced historians to rethink their knowledge about ancient Britain. There are dozens of buildings, among them one
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Is it possible to find evidence ancient Egyptians and Africans visited America in the past? Can the controversial Davenport and Pontotoc stele shed
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A highly thought-provoking theory has been put forward by a researcher who is suggesting that the fabulous Sacsayhuamán temple in Peru might contain
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Nevada is full of archaeological and anthropological discoveries - antiquities, no one is able to explain. One of these shocking discoveries gives us evidence
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The megalithic complex on top of Gunung Padang has been known since the 1800s, but it was until 2011 that archaeologists published their studies
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Centuries ago, Timbuktu - sometimes called the city of 333 saints - was most famous as a center of scholarship. The city was once
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The identity of the masters of Lascaux, who possessed impressive knowledge of artistic technique and equally sophisticated knowledge, remains shrouded in mystery. What source
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Shahdad's dwarfs covered the doors of their homes with mud and never returned. Why did they do it? Will we ever know? Welcome to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - They have been known from time immemorial, as the Serpent People, or People of the Serpent. Collectively, they are all known as the Serpents
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Antediluvians had technologies that matched our own; there are also serious indications that in certain areas they even possessed extraordinary knowledge, which has
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The reptilian appearance of the gods in the Old Testament was a well-kept secret but the Sumerians were more open and in their epics,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago, our ancestors lifted stones that our gigantic modern machinery could hardly move and put in place. Did they have the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago, the mysterious city of Mohenjo Daro was home to an unknown, advanced and prosperous civilization that used technology and constructed
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AncientPages.com - Did our ancestors have contact with highly advanced civilization living in Sirius star system? Did extraterrestrial intelligence visit the Earth from the dog star Sirius? How could
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Not everyone knows that the great stone circles of Senegambia are the largest megalithic complexes yet recorded in any region of the world.
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This incredible technology was widespread in antiquity and evidence of it can be found in all corners of the world. Prehistoric builders used
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - North America is a great continent where people of diverse cultures once lived but most of these cultures had been forgotten a long
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Norsuntepe is located in the Keban area (modern eastern Turkey) on the Upper Euphrates, about 25 km from Elazig. The crown of the
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Chachapoyas culture left many sarcophagi in their land in the Amazon region of Peru. The Chachapoyas were the original inhabitants of the
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