Ancient Places
Explore mysterious ancient ruins, sacred sites, places of great historical importance and phenomenal archaeological sites. Many ancient places offer us unique glimpse to the past.
Marvel over the astonishing architecture and history. You will be magically transported back in time.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once in the past, Quilmes was a great pre-Columbian city in northern Argentina. Brutal invasion by the Spaniards forced the Quilmes Indians to flee and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ranikot Fort also known as the Great Wall of Sindh is a historical fort near Sann, Jamshoro District, Sindh, Pakistan. Even its remains show
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Today the Actun Tunichil Muknal (Cave of the Stone Sepulcher) is a national park and major tourist attraction drawing hundreds of people visiting this
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cappadocia in Turkey is well-known for its amazing Moon-like landscape, secret underground cities, cave churches and houses carved in the rocks. This ancient site
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Arizona is a beautiful place, but it isn’t exactly famous for any remarkable ancient monuments and artifacts. However, this doesn’t mean this region was
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The name Mayong may not mean much to those who are unfamiliar with its history, but to people in India it is a special
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we discussed dangerous expeditions to the Amazon Jungle and explorers who brought back remarkable stories about hidden ancient
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - "Gold is the most exquisite of all things," said Christopher Columbus a few centuries ago, and "whoever possesses gold can acquire all that he
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Archaeoastronomy
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya were excellent astronomers who regularly observed the heavens. They studied various celestial objects, recorded important astronomical events, and could predict the
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Ancient Symbols
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is no doubt that Irminsul was a sacred symbol of the Saxons, an ancient Germanic tribe that occupied the region of modern Schleswig
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Artifacts
David Tee - AncientPages.com - The 10 ancient jugs discovered in the old city of Shiloh’s ancient boundaries have brought the city, the tabernacle and ancient Israel to the public’s
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Biblical Mysteries
David Tee - AncientPages.com - Capernaum was first discovered in the early 19th century AD. The father of archaeology, Edward Robinson, was the first to excavate at Tell Hum,
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Inchbrayock stone, also known as the Samson stone is a remarkable and truly fascinating ancient artifact. Found in 1849, in the graveyard
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Xipe Totec was an Aztec god worshiped by people across what is now central and western Mexico and the Gulf coast. It was a
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Fascinating and mysterious underground Longyou Grottoes (also known as Longyou Caves) must have been some kind of an extraordinary man-made project of the ancient
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Easter Island keeps many ancient secrets. One of them is an intriguing "kneeling moai or simply "Tukuturi" figure that was discovered on Easter Island
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting ancient places in North America that offer knowledge about our ancestors’ beliefs and clues about mysterious races that played an
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - People of ancient India were famous for building outstanding stepwells and their architecture varies by type, location, and age. Early stepwells were made of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are hundreds of prehistoric megaliths and several impressive ancient stone statues located in the Bada Valley, Central Sulawesi just south of the
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Biblical Mysteries
David Tee - AncientPages.com - The city of what is now called the City of David, was first established somewhere in the 3 millennium BC. It was Canaanite and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Could man be of a greater antiquity than previously thought? Did the inhabitants of Britain, Germany and France once in the remote past share
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sri Lanka’s ancient site of historical and archaeological significance is dominated by a massive column of rock the so-called ‘Sigiriya Rock’. Sigiriya rock (or the
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the Land of the Pyramids, there are still many undiscovered treasures that can bring light on the history of ancient Egypt. We keep
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Evidence of the engineering marvel of Indian architecture can be clearly seen in the country's temples. However, it is not only about the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.om - Harran was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, situated at a crucial geographical crossroad between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. It had a
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did ancient Sumerians observe and record the impact of the Aten asteroid over 5,000 years ago? For over 150 years scientists have tried
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Goreme (Göreme), located among the “fairy chimney” rock formations, is a town in Cappadocia, a historical region of Turkey. It is in the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Monsanto is a very ancient and remote village made of stone. Here, most of the homes are built into the rocks! The whole
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Helice (Helike), an ancient city of Achaea, N Peloponnesus, long stood as a legendary lost metropolis. It was once located on the southern
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - King Nebuchadnezzar II (c. 605 BC – c. 562 BC), the greatest ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, had no intention of letting enemies enter
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The astonishing Basilica Cistern, or the "Sunken Palace," is located underneath the streets and houses of Istanbul, Turkey. It is a marvelous hidden
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1957, a complex of caves, crypts,. six chapels, and tombs dated to 9-10th century, was found near Murfatlar, a port on the Danube-Black
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most mainstream scholars and Egyptologists say that the pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs. The tomb theory, developed by British archaeologist
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many ancient monuments have been rescued from rising waters of powerful Nile River. One of them is rock cut 'Tomb of Pennut', which is
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Inca Llajta (in Quechua means ‘Inca Town’) is considered the largest and most impressive Inca military complex in Bolivia, which served as the most
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - No one knows exactly when the statue first appeared in Paris, but it’s believed it was raised in pre-Roman times. Sometime during the 12th
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Enigmatic Stecci, the tombstones, often referred to as stone sleepers, are among the oldest witnesses of Bosnia and Herzegovina's history. They are considered
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Biblical Mysteries
David Tee - AncientPages.com - The Temple Mount is probably the most fragile place on earth. It is also the most incendiary site as well. Managed by the Islamic
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On a small island in Japan there is a very interesting cave filled with astonishing ancient paintings. The cave's narrow entrance and passage make
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The first mention of the Yuezhi civilization can be found in ancient Chinese sources from the 2nd century B.C. They are describes as nomadic
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A few kilometers from Rome, there are ruins of the ancient city of Ostia ( Ostia (literally translated as "the mouth"), which by its
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient kingdom of Chu flourished in China between around 1030 – 223 B.C. According to legends, the royal family of Chu descended
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