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.
Civilizations Archive
Chinese Mythology
Paul Stonehill - AncientPages.com - Chinese and Japanese archaeologists claim they have discovered in China's southwestern province of Sichuan evidence of the fifth ancient civilization, Japan's Kyodo News
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - What makes the Tarascans an intriguing pre-Columbian civilization? The Tarascans, well-known for their outstanding musical and artistic abilities, are first of all, famous for
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - One of North America's strangest and most controversial archaeological sites is the Calico Early Man. site. It is located midway between Los Angeles
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Before being destroyed and abandoned in 50 B.C. by a volcanic eruption, Cuicuilco was an important ancient site on the southern shore of Lake
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The mysterious 11,000-year-old Tower of Jericho was an impressive ancient structure. It was the world’s first skyscraper that over the years has inspired a
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The history of Geghard and traditions that date back to pre-Christian times, Armenians were influenced by the Persians and their Zoroastrian religion. Initially,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Pharaoh Thutmose IV reigned from 1400–1390 B.C., and had a special relationship with the Great Sphinx at Giza. According to Thutmose IV, the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings left an everlasting legacy in Ireland. While you are in Ireland, you can visit archaeological places where battles between Vikings and the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Long before the arrival of Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506), North and South America had been visited by other ancient civilizations. It is
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sardinia is one of the most ancient pieces of land in Europe with a rich legacy of prehistoric monuments. On the island, there
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Despite our cultural, traditional, religious, and linguistic differences, humans are often alike. That is not surprising because we all belong to the same
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sarmizegetusa (today Gradistea Muncelului) County was the capital of pre-Roman Dacia, located in the Orastie Mountains, in present-day Romania. Before the wars with
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most prominent historical sites of Kura Araxes (Uraxes) culture, dating from 3400 BC to 2000 BC, is the Shengavit settlement,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Hattusa was the capital of the kingdom of the Hittites in the late Bronze Age. In the 2nd millennium BC, the kingdom stretched from
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - More than 1,000 years ago, the mysterious great Buddhist Kingdom of Guge, with its capital, Tsaparang, was located on the high Tibetan plateau.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What evidence could support the theory that there was an unknown master race present in different corners of the world? In part 1
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Why would someone deliberately remove all evidence of a long-gone civilization? Throughout history, traces of mysterious dead civilizations have been erased regularly. Historical
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time ever archaeologists, religious historians, folklorists and literary scholars have worked together and produced a unique book that sheds new
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The mysterious Cucuteni-Trypillian culture lived in Eastern Europe thousands of years ago. They left behind a number of intriguing ancient artifacts, destroyed settlements, and sacred
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Qijia culture remains a historical and archaeological puzzle. Its mysterious and sudden disappearance leaves us with many unanswered questions. What happened
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Standing on a spectacular hilltop in Glen Nevis, to the west of Ben Nevis, we find Dun Deardail, a mysterious, ancient vitrified Scottish fort. Why
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Millennia ago, the Burnt City (Shahr-e Soukhteh) located in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan and bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, was the largest city
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Phoenicians remain one of the most enigmatic ancient civilizations. Our knowledge of these ancient people is based on scholars' speculations and educated
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Was there once an advanced Polar civilization that suddenly vanished without a trace millions of years ago? Can some perplexing anomalies clearly contradicting
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 we discussed two exciting artifacts that have been a subject of long-standing controversy and debate among scholars. Are these artifacts
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - By now most know Christopher Columbus was not the first to reach America. Many ancient civilizations crossed the oceans and reached America long
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Chachapoyas culture, settled in the Department of Amazonas, has left a significant number of large stone monuments, such as a massive stone citadel
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As time passes, every society changes one way or the other, but some things, like human behavior, will always remain the same, more
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Whether societies are ruled by ruthless dictators or more well-meaning representatives, they fall apart in time, with different degrees of severity. In the
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Of the six species of early humans, only Homo sapiens have managed to survive climate change on Earth. Now, a new study
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a careful interdisciplinary study of rare shields finds, researchers are finally able to reveal the last piece of the puzzle of how
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The history of Sais goes back to Egypt's pre-dynastic times (before 3100 BC). It was once a beautiful Egyptian city located in the
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Inca state and culture were born with a legend. The children of the god Inti, Manco Capac and his sister Mama Ocllo
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are several strange underwater formations in Canada and America that for some reason have never been properly examined. Could these submerged ruins
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In and around the Zagros Mountains area to the east of the great Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia, early humans lived since the Lower
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In part 1 we discussed why the discovery of an ancient, sacred statue in Asia could a much greater finding than previously thought.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many years ago a fascinating ancient, sacred statue was found on a small island. The statue depicted a man, but there was something
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptian pyramids are magnificent and worthy of admiration. Egypt can be proud of all its beautiful ancient monuments, tombs, statues, and countless
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures used plants to treat infections and diseases. Archaeological evidence indicates that the use of medicinal plants dates back to the Paleolithic age,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Climate change is a natural process and it affects all living beings, but how much must temperatures change for a powerful ancient civilization
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It has been suggested that the Irish and Scots are related to people from Biblical lands and ancient Egypt. It is an exciting
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There was once a mysterious European culture, which left a legacy in the form of valuable artifacts covered with an unknown, never successfully deciphered
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