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 - The Potala - also known as "Buddha Mountain" - is the most famous building in Tibet and the winter palace of the Dalai Lama.
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A roughly 5,000-year-old cuneiform stone tablet, in possession of the British Museum in London shows how workers were paid their daily rations in
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we discussed strange encounters with mysterious races of giants. From Native American myths and legends, we learned that
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient times, Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnar were two great African ports located on two islands close to each other just off the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan (officially Kyrgyz), is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south west
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did humans of incredible strength and stature once rule the land of America? Have ancient skeletons of giant beings been deliberately covered-up and hidden
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mount Nemrut is an awe-inspiring and enigmatic place located on one of the highest peaks of the Eastern Taurus mountain range, at an altitude
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1998, a resident made an intriguing discovery of thirteen stone stelae in Hakkari. Hakkâri (also called Julemerg) is a city and capital
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An incredible complex of tombs and artworks known as Naqsh-e Rostam ("Picture of Rostam"), or Necropolis, is located outside of the city of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A mysterious ancient underwater structure hidden beneath MacDonald Lake reveals traces of a lost civilization present in Ontario, Canada thousands of years ago.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The library of Celsus is one of the best known and the most beautiful classic monuments in Turkey. It was built in 117 AD
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Artifacts
A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations and interviews with professional grave diggers - "guaqueros" are the main source of what is known about the Malagana Treasure. The Malagana Treasure
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - People have continuously occupied the Grand Canyon for at least the past 4,000 years, and they have lived in the region for the past
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The beautiful ancient city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka was a place where powerful kings ruled 800 years ago. Polonnaruwa (also sometimes called Kandavuru Camp
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An unknown ancient city of Buritaca is located in an isolated massif of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the northern part of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An archaeological site of Copán contains the remains of ancient ruins associated with the Maya civilization. It is located in the Copán Department of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Chumash cave paintings are beautiful and simply amazing. Chumash rock art is considered one of the region's most elaborate rock art traditions,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of Belize’s largest and oldest continuously occupied Maya sites is - Lamanai, located deep within the jungles of the Orange Walk District on
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient sources reveal that Mayan priests had knowledge of a very old civilization that underground but for there was a reason why no-one was
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The largest keyhole-shaped tomb in Japan - Daisenryo Kofun – is located in the city of Sakai in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Kofun ("ancient grave")
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located 20 km (12.4 mi) north of the Al-`Ula town, 400 km (248.5 mi) north-west of Medina, and 500 km (310.7 mi) south-east of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The representation of the Sacred Mountain of the Mayas, is located only ten kilometers from a village Ocosingo in Chiapas between the famous Palenque
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Sahara is the largest desert in the world. At 3-1/2 million square miles, the Sahara is as large as the United States and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most important archaeological discoveries in Oklahoma and the entire North America was the Spiro Mounds Site. The people of Spiro
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Who were these beings who visited prehistoric Jordan, a place at the crossroads of the oldest human cultures? The statues along with two
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Thousands of Thamudic petroglyphs are scattered all over the area of the Wadi Rum, just south of the famous rose-red city of Petra, in
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Carved stones represent a unique legacy of the Picts. Many of them give evidence of the advanced skills of artists; some of the stones
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The beautifully colored ancient wall paintings in the Goguryeo tombs show images of animals, palaces, water wells, warriors, forests, birds, and astonishing landscapes.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Africa’s rock art is very rich and can be found in many places across the vast African continent. It constitutes an important legacy of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Millennia ago, unknown Neolithic builders erected gigantic stone blocks on coastlines ranging from the Orkney Islands to far away in Jordan. Examples of megaliths
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new set of petroglyphs may offer evidence of a lost advanced civilization that existed thousands of years ago. The rock art was found
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AncientPages.com - Two ancient paintings made of sandstone have been discovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission working on reducing the groundwater level at Aswan’s Kom Ombo Temple. One of the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Ausevik rock art site at Høydalsfjorden, in Sunnfjord, in Western Norway, contains more than 300 rock carvings of different shapes, of which many
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Some really impressive petroglyphs can be admired on the hills overlooking the desert communities Santa Clara and Ivins in the Santa Clara River Reserve,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Ming Tombs ("Ming Thirteen Mausoleums") is a collection of imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty scattered over forty square kilometers in Changping
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many times, ancient people left behind certain clues that, when deciphered, could describe things and events they had witnessed. It was their way of leaving
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AncientPages.com - Researchers at Tulane University have documented the discovery of dozens of ancient cities in northern Guatemala through the use of jungle-penetrating Lidar (light detection and ranging) technology.
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AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists has uncovered evidence indicating that Mayan elites lived in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacán, located northeast of Mexico City more than 1,000 kilometers
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - These remarkable artifacts known as slit gongs are truly extraordinary in their appearances. They can be found primarily on the islands, Ambrym and Malakula
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Gordium (Gordion) in Turkey was once the capital city of ancient Phrygia and today is known for its more
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Ancient Technology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are certain legends and myths that suggest ancient civilizations might have had some knowledge of time travel. While researching advanced technologies of the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Two very remarkable islands - Kosrae and Pohnpei ("upon a stone altar") - can be found in the Caroline Islands, a widely scattered archipelago
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