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.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An impressive 2,700 year old farmhouse and a 1,500 year old church with colorful mosaics and inscriptions in it were uncovered in the excavations in Rosh Ha-Ayin, the
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Napata was an ancient great city located on the west bank of the Nile in Nubia, the region of the valley of the Nile
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Mosaics were a common feature of private homes and public buildings across the Roman empire. They were beautiful works of art depicting food, tools they used, clothes,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The only way to get to this spectacular and huge underground city was via well-hidden tunnels which started at the nearby Mtkvari river.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sanchi is famous in the world for stupas, monolithic Ashokan pillars, temples, monasteries, and sculptural wealth. Located at Sanchi Town in Raisen District of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists of the University of West Florida recently identified the archaeological site of the Luna settlement – the first multi-year European settlement in the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Chinese archaeologists on Sunday opened the lid of the external coffin of a 2,000-year-old tomb, which they believe belong to a marquis of the Western Han Dynasty
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - One of the largest cache of ammunition has been unearthed in four pits, during the last eleven days of excavation works at the Fort St Angelo, informed
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - For the first time since its discovery in 1996, the tomb of Maia, the wet nurse of King Tutankhamun in Saqqara, opens to public, according to
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Fifteen ancient tree species that grew 4,500 years ago in Alacahöyük, one of the most important centers of the Hittite civilization will be planted in order
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A cult area built for the god Zeus is considered the most important discovery during this year's excavations in the ancient city of Metropolis, located in Aegean
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An ancient necropolis believed to be the 'cradle of the Scythians' located in the vicinity of Mangerok in the North Altai in Russia has been studied by Russian-Polish team
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located in the ancient, pre-Columbian city of Uxmal, Mexico, an intriguing Mesoamerican step pyramid is known as the Pyramid of the Magician. It
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An inscription in Hebrew letters engraved on a large, 1,500-year-old marble slab, first of its kind to be found in Israel, was excavated in the Kursi Beach
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers conduct excavations at the Haihunhou cemetery near Nanchang City, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province. It’s the most complete known Western Han Dynasty (206 BC -
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have discovered the location of historic battle fought by the Roman the general of eight legions and statesman, Julius Caesar, who massacred
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jainism – is an ancient religion of self-help and originates from India. There are no gods or spiritual beings that will help human
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Kovachevsko Kale Fortress is located in the vicinity of the town of Popovo in Northeast Bulgaria. A few years ago, archaeologists discovered a
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Mogao Grottoes, near the oasis town of Dunhuang in the Gobi Desert, China are where generations of Buddhist monks built hundreds of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An ancient relief depicting Heracles with a crook in his right hand and a seven-headed snake in his left hand can be found in an ancient quarry
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Fifteen rock paintings discovered in a village close to the ancient city of Ani in the eastern province of Kars will play a significant role for the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A team of researchers has found the partial remains of a 13th century pagoda foundation at the Todaiji temple. A Todaiji temple pagoda razed in war during
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - About a year ago, beautiful mosaics were found during excavations in the ancient city of Zeugma in Turkey's southern province of Gaziantep. Even earlier many beautiful mosaics
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bocca della Verità is an ancient stone mask that once served as a tool to determine if a person was lying or telling
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A team led by the Archaeology Institute at the University of the Highlands and Islands discovered what is believed to be a Bronze Age settlement at Tresness,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Trading routes have been discovered that pass through the old town of Vadnagar, mentioned often in the Puranas and even in the travelogue of the great Chinese
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have found evidence of Roman and medieval domestic life in Leicester. Archaeologists have completed the excavation of a series of
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The oldest surviving royal library in the world is that of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-around 630 BC). British Museum archaeologists discovered more than
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed remnants of the 12th-century castle keep wall and some remains of William Blackburns’s original prison design. The site lies immediately outside of the Roman
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A "frog-like" swastika made of nephrite has been discovered during archaeological excavations of the8,000-year-old Slatina Neolithic Settlement in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The swastika is 3 cm
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An ancient tomb has been discovered by a construction team working in a village of Datong Hui, in Datong County, in northwestern China's Qinghai Province, according to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Beneath Nottingham Castle, there is a labyrinth of manmade sandstone caves and tunnels; all of them are related to countless secrets of Nottingham,
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Archaeology
Ancient Pages.com - A rich collection of silver jewellery from the IX-XIII century period, discovered during dig in Czermno in the Lublin province near the Ukrainian border, was presented at a closed
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Impressive statues of ancient Mesopotamian rulers in the Louvre and the British Museum are famous. They bear witness to the wealth of Bronze Age Akkadian and Sumerian
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 2000-year-old room plastered with frescoes was accidentally discovered during routine roadworks to install a gas pipeline under a busy street in central Rome, Italy. The find was
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago lived a woman in the Egyptian city of Asyut, on the west side of the Nile River Valley, 375 miles south of the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers say that humans have been eating these beans for many millennia. The world's oldest domesticated fava beans have been discovered in sites in the central-southern Levant, now
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Mesopotamian mythology, Gilgamesh is a demigod of superhuman strength who built the city walls of Uruk to defend his people from external
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The sarcophagus of Ankh-f-n-khonsu, a high priest of the ancient Egyptian god Amun Ra, has been unearthed in the west bank of Luxor,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - London has been a multicultural city since its earliest days as a Roman city, according to new cutting-edge DNA research just published by the Museum of London. Scientists examined four skeletons, looking
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists say they have made a ground-breaking discovery on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. Experts have found what appears to be a small Roman fort on land
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists allow public to see important phase of conservation work on remarkable Le Catillon II Hoard. Peeling back the top five centimetres of a pile of buried
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