Ancient Places
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A two-year meticulous investigation into the mystery of an Edinburgh crypt has finally cast important new light on the turbulent and little-known history of the Dark
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A "very rare" Bronze Age underground building which experts believe could have been a sauna or steam house has been discovered by archaeologists in Scotland. The
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AncientPages.com - A recently launched project that is performing CAT scans on the remains of Pompeii victims contained within plaster casts has revealed that good health was widespread
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Marcahuasi is an eerie place related to many legends and unbelievable stories about mysterious subterranean chambers, sightings of balls of light or even encounters
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Now, it’s time to take a look at the next architectural wonder of India – the cave temples of Ajanta – that represent a
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AncientPages.com - A massive ancient tomb recently opened in northern Greece was likely a monument to Hephaestion, the close companion of Alexander the Great, experts working on the
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First version of this article was originally published August 17, 2014 AncientPages.com - In every corner of the world we come across fascinating ancient mysteries that encourage us to
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AncientPages.com - A 1,500 year old mosaic, depicting a map with streets and buildings, was uncovered on the floor of an early Christian church in Kiryat Gat, about two
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AncientPages.com - The 1st century AD inscription printed on an ancient clay vessel in an ancient Thracian burial mound near the town of Tatarevo in Southern Bulgaria is
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - Ornate ancient Thracian marble steles from a Thracian shrine dedicated to the sun have been restored with a permanent open-air exhibition of replicas of the steles.
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Odense City Museums have opened a stone coffin beneath the city's smal timber church of St. Alban’s Priory in Odense, Denmark The coffin with
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Sao people - means "the men from another time" are an intriguing and one of the oldest civilizations of Central Africa. Ancient civilization
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AncientPages.com - Long-term excavations at the Hellenistic city of Pisidia Antiocheia, an important center of early Christianity revealed that the settlement was occupied since the Neolithic age. The
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AncientPages.com - Armenia is one of the oldest countries in the world. Scientific researches, archaeological findings, old cuneiform inscriptions, ancient maps and even the Holy Bible provide lots of
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AncientPages.com - The International Symposium “Cycladica in Crete: Cycladic and Cycladicizing figurines within their archaeological context” will take place on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd October 2015 at the Museum of Cycladic
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AncientPages.com - Remains of at least 50 people, all believed to date from 11th and early 12th century, have beeen discovered during demolition work to make space for
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AncientPages.com - A Bronze Age burial site has recently been discovered in Azerbaijan. Parviz Gasimov, an official at the Archeology and Ethnography Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy
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AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers led by André Strauss of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, presents evidence for a 9,000 year-old
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists may have finally uncovered the lost tomb of the Maccabees - Matityahu the Hasmonean and his five sons, from the ancient city of Modi'in -
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The island of Blue Maiden or Blåkulla, a Swedish island situated in the Kalmar Strait, is a mythical place that has fascinated and
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AncientPages.com - Work is continuing to open a previously hidden tunnel that was discovered during the restoration of Tokat Castle, known as the dungeon of Dracula. The tunnel
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A rare pre-Roman tomb has been unearthed in Pompeii, shedding new light on life at the site in the fourth century BC. The rare archaeological finding confirms that
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - A mask of a satyr, a male companion of ancient wine god Dionysus with horse-like features, has been discovered near the town of Vetren in Southern
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AncientPages.com - One of the richest Bronze Age cemeteries in the Polish lands has been discovered by archaeologists near the village Dunino in the commune Krotoszyce (Lower Silesia).
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Yangshan Quarry is famous for an unfinished stele of huge size that was abandoned there during the reign of the Yongle Emperor,
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AncientPages.com - For more than a century and a half after the Mountain Meadows Massacre, no one knew exactly where the bodies were buried. A California-based archaeologist now
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Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a 200-meter section of the long-lost Pelusiac branch of the Nile at the Tel Al-Dafna, archaeological site in Qantara. The ancient water-way was a
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists unearthed many fascinating ancient treasures during excavations conducted at Sedeinga, a necropolis located 450 miles from Meroe in northern Sudan. Among them, there are 35
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AncientPages.com - Vikramashila was one of the two most important centers of Buddhist learning in India during the Pala Empire, along with Nalanda University. Vikramashila is a town
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AncientPages.com - Over the last decade, an extensive research has been conducted at Catalhoyuk (Çatalhöyük), a Neolithic settlement in Turkey. One of the most distinguishing features at Catalhoyuk
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Mexico has restored a series of colorful 2,500-year-old cave paintings with help from the American archaeologist who first registered them almost 50 years ago. Paintings are concentrated in
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AncientPages.com - A team of Japanese and Peruvian researchers has found in northern Peru an intact 2,700-year-old tomb containing the remains of two high priests from the ancient
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This library - built in 117 AD - is one of the most beautiful structures in Ephesus. It was a monumental tomb for
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AncientPages.com - Skeletal and crematory graves from the mid-1st millennium, and the remains of representatives of megafauna, living in the present Polish territory during the last Ice Age,
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AncientPages.com - An ancient aqueduct system, which is estimated to belong to the historical castle of the city, has been uncovered in Borujerd in Lorestan Province during construction
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - The oldest example of stone wall in the history of construction in the Polish lands, more than two and a half thousand years older than Romanesque
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Yungang Grottoes is a stone carving treasure that is renowned all around the world. Richly decorated grottoes, known as Wuzhoushan Grottoes in ancient times,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Patara - one of the six big cities of the Lycia Union - is an ancient city with a long history. Long-lasting archaeological
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AncientPages.com - Enormous and impressive structure of Derawar Fort is located at the edge of the Cholistan desert. It's a famed hallmark of Bahawalpur, the eleventh largest city
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Archeological excavations of the ruins of Taosi in Linfen City, Shanxi Province, China have confirmed the location of the capital of the Yao period, about 4,200 years ago,
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