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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Civilizations
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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Civilizations
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 - According to an ancient legend the Shwedagon Pagoda is 2,500 years old dating back to the lifetime of the Buddha, making it the oldest
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Conwy Castle in Snowdonia is considered one of Europe's most impressive military structures of the late 13th century and early 14th century that
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Civilizations
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
AncientPages.com - Koh Ker was part of the Khmer kingdom during the Angkor period in what is now Cambodia. In this long forgotten ancient city stands a magnificent step pyramid
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are certain places on this planet that are often referred to as spiritual hotspots. Such places are believed to be surrounded by a
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Il Globo reports that archaeologists have made a surprising discovery in the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city, which was destroyed following the explosion of Mt
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Etowah Indian Mounds are a remarkable legacy of the ancient Mississippian culture. The mounds can be found near the juncture of the Etowah River
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have discovered a unique burial complex of the royal confidant and priest Kaires. Kaires was an unusual man of great importance and he
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Not much is known about the magnificent Pasha Gardens and the history of the ruins we find here is shrouded in mystery. Located
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Archaeology
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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Civilizations
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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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 1,800-Year-old painted tomb has been unearthed by archaeologists from the Department of Antiquities and the discovery that was made at the ancient site of Capitolias in
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Civilizations
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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Archaeology
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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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - "Someone" is buried there... and they do not appear to be ordinary humans. In a difficult accessible region, there is an unusual ancient cave
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Civilizations
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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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Although gigantic chalk figures or geoglyphs are something of a modern phenomenon, there are examples that this tradition has been going on for 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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Civilizations
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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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In an ancient Medieval manuscript, there is a very strange story that cannot be easily explained. The incident happened on a Sunday in a small
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Berkeley walls remain an ancient unsolved enigma. Often referred to as the "Great Wall Of California," it remains unknown who constructed
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Maui trilithon, widely known as Gate of Tonga is a unique stone structure in Polynesia. Researchers say it is dated to XI century. Local
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - North America’s petroglyphs at the Winnemucca Lake are the oldest known. Cut into several boulders located within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, in western
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Biblical Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the three monotheistic faiths, Gabriel's role - as a messenger to humans from God - was crucial. The angel Gabriel (“man of God”
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The world of sleeping stone giants, rock towns and weird rock formations does really exist. There is also an ancient legend related to these
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Biblical Mysteries
David Tee - AncientPages.com - Gezer is mentioned in 5 books of the Bible. Its importance was not lost on the biblical writers as the city once had a
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What could the Vikings possibly know about the lost legendary mythical land of Atlantis? Our first thought is that they were not familiar with
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The temples of Angkor contained immense quantities of relief sculpture but extensive ruins were completely abandoned after the place was attacked and the site
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Remains of an ancient village, dating back to about 5,000 BC, has been discovered by the Egyptian-French archaeological expedition, led by Dr. Frederick Gio. Archaeologists say it
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Do these mysterious ancient carvings represent the faces of "devils" or rather unknown mysterious beings that once upon a time, in a distant past
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Several years ago, archaeologists unearthed an ancient tomb that contained remains of an unknown woman. She was put to rest dressed in precious clothes
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Glastonbury Tor, some 525 feet high (160 m), has been called the 'Heart of England'. It is an enigmatic sacred landmark, one of the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Anundshög is a burial mound from about 500-700 AD; it is 9 meters (30 ft) high and 60 meters (200 ft) wide, and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Sacred City of Caral is ancient, and its age is comparable to the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica. Caral
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient wall relief in Peru, belonging to the oldest civilizations in the Americas, has been unearthed at the ancient Caral site of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Scandinavia has the largest concentration of Bronze Age rock art in Europe. Approximately thirty thousand registered sites depict figurative art (human and animal
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many people believe there are frightening places on our planet that lead to the underground realms of hell. One such place is in Stull,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Shortly before the destruction of their homeland the Lords of Mu traveled to various parts of the world. Their mission was to create new
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