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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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Several Norse runes mention a group of unknown warriors named Kylfings. According to scholars, the Kylfings may have been members of the Varangian Guard, but who
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AncientPages.com - Many modern people love tattoos and so did our ancestors. Several ancient civilizations used tattoos for a number of reasons and scientists have discovered many very old
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient city of Enkomi flourished in the Late Bronze Age and was possibly the capital of Alashiya (Alasia), a Late Bronze Age country and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Who were the first Americans? This question remains an unanswered and much-debated question. There are several promising theories, but several scientists say conclusive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In northern Louisiana, North America, there is a very interesting and mysterious ancient site known as Watson Brake. This ancient site challenges our knowledge
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many history books will tell you that the indigenous population of the Caribbean was all but wiped out, but people who self-identify as Taíno
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the distant past, people in Brazil raised fascinating megalithic structures still shrouded in mystery. One intriguing monument is Calçoene, also called the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once a highly sophisticated and influential civilization in Nubia, it was located in northern Sudan. Nubian temples. An entrance to the Great Enclosure.
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AncientPages.com - Using LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology researchers of Ithaca College uncovered thousands of new Maya structures previously undetected beneath smothering vegetation. The survey of encompassed Several
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AncientPages.com - Apparently, power of Pharaoh Ramses is fake news. Archaeological evidence from an Egyptian excavation 200 miles east of the Libyan border has helped ruin the formidable reputation
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the foothills of Turkish Kurdistan, in eastern Anatolia, there is an unusual tribe called Alevi. The mysterious Alevi do not only differ in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient ‘smiling faces’ are small figurines of reddish clay, associated with ancient cultures of Maya and Aztec. Usually these ceramic sculptures were solid or
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What did the Champa civilization know about the Nagas, the Serpent People? An intriguing ancient inscription discovered in the mysterious megalithic city of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - About 2,500 years ago, a unique culture of Fremont Indians began to develop in Utah and parts of Nevada, Idaho, and Colorado. The
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Hadrian Wall lost its importance when Roman Emperor Hadrian's successor, Antonius Pius (138 - 161), launched a successful military campaign in southern Scotland early
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AncientPages.com - A few centuries ago, Mexico’s Aztec nation suffered a large disaster in their history. Within not more than five years (1545-1550 AD), 15 million people, it means
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An undisturbed Scythian burial mound has been discovered by Swiss archaeologist Gino Caspari, using high-resolution satellite images of the Uyuk River valley (Siberia)
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AncientPages.com - Egyptian and American archaeologists made two new important discoveries in Aswan, include royal administrative complex in the ancient Egyptian city of Tel Edfu and a collection of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When scientists examined a mysterious ancient jade artifact it quickly became clear that the object didn’t match anything that anyone knew about jadeite jade.
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Originally, the tribe we all know today as Aztecs, was once known as the Mexica, from which the modern name of the country of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Lady Cao was not just one of many mummies archaeologists have unearthed in various parts of the world. Discoveries of her remains re-wrote ancient
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AncientPages.com - A team of researchers from the Royal Tombs Museum of Sipan unearthed a pre-Hispanic Mochica site, alongside artifacts and human remains in the ruins of the Limon archaeological
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AncientPage.com - We posses plenty of information about the Vikings, but our knowledge of the first Scandinavians is still limited. Who were the first Scandinavians? Where did they come
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AncientPages.com - Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed remains of mud-brick walls and several artefacts, probably dated to different periods of the ancient Egyptian era. Additionally, four furnaces (664-332 BC) have
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An 11,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Alaska raises new questions about who inhabited North America in the distant past. Examination of the skeleton shows
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AncientPages.com - For more than 18 years, an ancient site of the city of Hippos-Sussita, located at the top of a diamond-shaped mountain 1,000 feet above the eastern shore
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AncientPages.com - A 4,000-year-old circular, wooden henge have been discovered at the Little Catwick Quarry, situated near the North Sea coast. Archaeologists have been excavating the traces of the
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AncientPages.com - Huge jars (in Greek, called 'pithoi') were large storage containers, widely used among the civilizations that inhabited the regions of the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the
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AncientPages.com - Researchers say that approximately 70 percent of the 5,000-year-old ancient city of Perga, located in southern Antalya, Turkey has not been uncovered yet. Ancient city of Perge
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On the edge of the Gobi Desert in China, there is a fascinating group of people who are entirely different from other Chinese.
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AncientPages.com - Impressive ancient walls belonging to a fortress located on Egypt's Canal of the Pharaohs, in Tell el-Maskhuta, has been unearthed by a team of Italian archaeologists working
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AncientPages.com - A medieval grave with a skeleton with an arrow in the chest has been discovered by archaeologists of the Plovdiv Museum of Archaeology, Bulgaria. The findings, dated to
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Zuni Indians in New Mexico are unlike any other Native American tribe. Not only is their language, religion, and blood type surprisingly
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AncientPages.com - The pursuit of immortality was very popular among the most powerful Chinese emperors. China’s first emperor, Ying Zheng was one of those who pursued the mysterious elixir of
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have initiated new surveys to examine sections of the ancient structure known as the Great Wall of Gorgan, located in northern Iran. Constructed between
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AncientPages.com - A golden necklace - considered to be the oldest golden jewel in the Caucasus – was unearthed during excavations in one of the most ancient parts of
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AncientPages.com - The first-known example of a painted stone painted depicting a human face, has been discovered by Japanese archaeologists. The artifact is dated to the Jomon Pottery (8000
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AncientPages.com - A remarkable, resourceful people lived in southern part of Bolivia between the 13th and 15th centuries. They left a legacy of countless fields of ‘quinoa’, a plant
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AncietPages.com - Analysis of giant stone hats found on Rapa Nui, Chile (Easter Island) provides evidence contrary to the widely held belief that the ancient civilization had a warrior
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AncientPages.com - A unique ancient monument built during, the late Second Ancient Turkic Qaghanate, has been discovered in eastern Mongolia by archeologists from Osaka University, Japan and the Institute
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AncientPages.com - An astronomical observatory, massive stone walls and a great variety of pottery have been revealed during excavations at Espiritu Pampa archaeological site in Southern Cusco region, Peru.
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AncientPages.com - The ancient settlement area with the rock tombs, a temple area and a 50-meter-deep water tunnel have been discovered in Erzurum's Dumlu neighborhood, located in eastern Anatolia,
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