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.
Places Archive
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The fascinating and mysterious complex of standing stones – similar to those of the famous Stonehenge – is located at Willong Khullen, a small village
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Mesopotamian myths, Gilgamesh is presented as a demigod of superhuman strength that lived a very long life. Based on the’ Sumerian King
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Teotihuacán is an ancient site where the circumstances of its destruction are not entirely clear. The people who created it are completely unknown, and
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sayhuite is an intriguing ancient site in Peru. Was it once an ancient city inhabited by an unknown civilization? The site located on top
Read More
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed several ancient tombs in San José de Moro, a ceremonial center of pre-Columbian Moche civilization on the northern coast of Peru. These findings are
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to available ancient references, Takshashila, was an early Buddhist center of learning. Scholars date back this ancient university to (c. approx. 400-500
Read More
Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Scientists have been searching for an ancient temple dedicated to a winged warrior god Haldi for centuries. Was the temple just an ancient myth
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is an ancient burial place of King Mausolus (377–353 BC), the eldest son of king Hecatomnus of Milas (Mylasa), a
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The legendary kingdom of Punt has long been argued by scholars, who are not exactly sure about the location of Punt. It is
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - After Teotihuacan Empire eventually went into decline around 600- 700 CE, the Pre-Hispanic City of El Tajin (“place of the invisible beings or
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once, it was the site of many temples, especially the temple of Seti I, and first of all, this very ancient city is
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once, it was the site of many temples, especially the temple of Seti I, and first of all, this very ancient city is strongly
Read More
Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptian schools were in some way similar to the Eduba, ancient scribal school in Mesopotamia. Students in ancient Egypt were mainly wealthy boys who started school
Read More
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have examined an ancient Cambridgeshire settlement that was only there for a short time before it was engulfed by flames 3,000 years ago. The village
Read More
Civilizations
AncientPages.com - For the last 3,400 years, since 1350 B.C. two gigantic stone statues known as the Colossi of Memnon have been guarding the temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III,
Read More
Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Many secrets are hidden in Teotihuacan, northeast of Mexico City, Mexico. Aztecs and the Toltecs, reached a place called Teotihuacan that was already enshrined in myth.
Read More
Civilizations
A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bandelier National Monument is an archaeological area (50 square miles (130 km2) of the Pajarito Plateau, in the Jemez Mountains and 20 miles west of
Read More
Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Ancient Sumerian tablets, dating back to 2,500 B.C. excavated at the ancient city Shuruppak are the very first examples of school textbooks, listing gods, animals, as well as
Read More
Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Will we ever solve the mystery of California's maze stones? A mysterious prehistoric maze stone is located on a hill west of the city
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There is a fascinating and entirely different megalithic site, unrelated to those of prehistoric Europe. This archaeoastronomical site is located on the west side
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among the richest and best documented ancient sites in India, there are rock shelters of Bhimbetka located in Raisen district, approximately 45 kilometers south-east
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Casa Grande Ruins are pre-Columbian ruins in south-central Arizona, U.S., in the Gila River valley just north of Coolidge. Discovered in 1694 by Jesuit
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bighorn Medicine Wheel in a sacred ancient site located on top of the Bighorn Range in Wyoming, USA. Although the Bighorn Medicine Wheel
Read More
Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Dodona (Greek Dōdōnē) was an ancient Greek town located in Epirus; the historical region now shared between Greece and Albania. Dodona was also the
Read More
Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - To improve their agriculture, the Aztecs built so-called chinampas. These were small, artificial islands created on a freshwater lake. The chinampas resembled floating gardens. Chinampas were used
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located in the territory of Sassari near Porto Torres, in northern Sardinia, Italy there is an intriguing ancient site known as Monte d'Accoddi,
Read More
Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Peru is a country rich in history that spans several millennia. Known as the heart of the Inca Empire, Peru was also home to many other
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Near Meteora, a beautiful and strange rock formation in ancient Greece, there are several intriguing ancient caves. One of them is the Theopetra
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are about 3,600 known prehistoric grooves on stones scattered throughout the island of Gotland in Sweden. As many as 700 of them are
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The magnificent Borobudur is the world's largest Buddhist shrine, and one of the finest examples of eighth-century temple architecture. The Borobudur Temple, situated in
Read More
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have begun digging up two Roman baths hidden in a passageway below the city of Bath, in the south-west of England. Archaeologists believe one of the baths
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to the Amarna Letters and the annals of Thutmose III, Byblos ('Papyrus' in Greek) was dependent and subservient to Egypt for hundreds of years.
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom was located in the easternmost region of the Hellenistic world. This ancient kingdom covered Bactria (northern Afghanistan) and lands to
Read More
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Recent discovery of surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Philadelphia in the Central Anatolia, Turkey indicates that the ancient city
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages - Almost two thousand years ago, the Zapotec people built the city at the top of the mountain. This mysterious city, probably about 3000 years
Read More
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Working now in the lab conditions, scientists have opened the 2,000-year-old coffin thought to belong to Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun. The remains of the "Marquis
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The first mention of Armenia in writing is the ca. 4000 BC Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, where the country was described as a rich
Read More
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Prehistoric pits, two Neolithic monuments and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery of 150 graves containing spears, knives, jewellery and bone combs have been discovered at an army site where
Read More
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com The fort of Vindolanda, one of the earliest Roman garrisons, built by the Roman army in England, is one of Europe's most important Roman archeological
Read More
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 400-meter stretch of unbroken castle wall--the largest intact example of such stone masonry from the feudal era --has been discovered during excavations at Okazaki Castle, the birthplace
Read More
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A fragment of the Late Antiquity fortress wall of the Ancient Roman city of Sexaginta Prista (meaning “Port of the Sixty Ships") has been discovered in the Danube
Read More
Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - The Agora was a large open place meeting place surrounded by buildings. The word Agora means “gathering place” or “assembly”. In ancient Greece it was common practice
Read More
