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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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A group of scientists excavating on the edge of the Siberian Arctic have made a very intriguing discovery unearthing unopened human remains wrapped in birch bark belonging
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Some say these are the graves of the giants that walked the Earth in the distant past. Are the mysterious tombstones remnants of
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ruins extending over approximately 385,000 square miles are located in Zimbabwe, on the high plateau of southern Africa. The ruins contain the
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - It is time to visit remarkable Vijayanagara, one of the most beautiful ancient places and one of the kingdoms of the Shining Ones. Vijayanagara
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The mysterious ancient Hongshan culture vanished thousands of years ago, but they left behind a number of absolutely astonishing jade figurines that we have
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A mystery lies scattered on the unexplored bottom of Fuxian Lake, stretching out through Chengjiang County, Jiangchuan County and Huaning County in Yunnan Province,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Throughout history, abandoned ancient places with fantastic history have always fascinated people. Unfortunately, many of these places are now forgotten, neglected, or destroyed.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Satellite images reveal intriguing and mysterious structures in the Sahara desert. The constructions are either damaged pyramids or antediluvian remains. Something very large
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Peterborough petroglyphs in Ontario, Canada, are just as mysterious as controversial. Could these sacred images offer enough evidence ancient Celtic explorers visited
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Elfdalian (in Swedish: Älvdalska) is a very ancient relative of Swedish (maybe even more 'Swedish' than it is spoken today). Some call it
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Ancient Symbols
AncientPages.com - A tiny dragon's head, one of the most famous symbols of the Vikings, has been discovered during excavations in the harbour at Birka in Lake Mälaren. Birka,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - At first sight, the Birka Ring, an ancient Viking artifact resembles just an old ring. However a closer examination of the ring revealed a surprising discovery, an
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - "Only since the late 1700s has it been possible to collect & record truly accurate geographic information." (Encarta Encyclopedia: Geography & Maps, History of...)
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Wari culture not only extended the irrigation systems already existing in Peru but also were the first using a terraced field technology and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - By using cosmic rays detectors, scientists are able to locate secret chambers inside pyramids. When a scientific team conducted a series of experiments on
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Examination of rock carvings in Arizona and New Mexico, has led scientists to the conclusion that "Chinese explorers not only reached the Americas in pre-Columbian times, but
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An "exceptional" tomb from the 5th Century BC likely to be that of a Celtic prince has been unearthed on the outskirts of Lavau in France's Champagne
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Solar Cult Complex in the temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari, reconstructed by a Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw mission, was opened to
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A team of researchers led by Professor David Mattingly, of the University of Leicester's School of Archaeology and Ancient History, is investigating a lost civilization in
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Is it just a coincidence or do certain laws of nature lie behind the phenomenon observed in the ancient Huashan Caves in China's Anhui
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cahokia was one of the most sophisticated civilizations in North America. There are many questions without sufficient explanations regarding Cahokia's puzzling history. It was
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - These amazing engravings were drawn, long before ancient Egypt as we know it existed! The carvings are 20 feet in height and consist of
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Windover Pond is one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in North America. It is a remarkable underwater cemetery created by ancient
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Biblical Mysteries
AncientPages.com - Magdala, an ancient city on the Sea of Galilee, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Tiberias is today only ruins in northern part of Israel. It is believed
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A new evidence related to an early (pre-Columbian) European presence in Arctic Canada has been examined in a study conducted by Dr. Patricia Sutherland, an honorary research fellow at
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Named after the healing god Asclepius, the Asclepion of Pergamum is a sacred site that existed as early as the 4th century BC.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - What was the purpose of building these strange Tibetan towers? Among many Chinese mysterious structures, are star-shaped towers. Some of them are more than 100
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did an ancient lost civilization once live in a secret underground city below the Grand Canyon? Will the mystery of the lost subterranean city ever
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once the Burnt City, (original name: Shahr-e-Sookhteh) was the largest prehistoric city of Iran. Its inhabitants were of unknown origin. A true mystery surrounds
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Some researchers believe that the ruins of an ancient observatory and mysterious rock inscriptions in Russia's Northwest are vestiges of the ancient Hyperborea civilization, a sacred land
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Who were the mysterious five twins of Atlantis? Was Bolivia part of Atlantis in ancient times? Why are there so many ancient depictions of
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Sleeping Beauty of Loulan is an extraordinary 3,800-year-old mummy that until today is still preserved. It is one of 200 mummies found in
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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, a group of scientists announced they had discovered graves of giants in Syria. Among them was the grave of Abel, the
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mount Kailash, which means "precious jewel of eternal snow" remains a place shrouded in mystery and legend. According to ancient beliefs, this enigmatic Tibetan
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most isolated and mystical places of the northern region, is the Solovetsky Archipelago that comprises six islands in the western
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The origin of the Ainu people in Japan is unknown. Although the word Ainu means "human", it has to be stated that these people
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Biblical Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The story of the Tower of Babel is set in the time after Noah's flood and it was long considered to be a legend.
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Four decades ago, a startling discovery was made, when a team of researchers led by the celebrated Greek-Russian archaeologist V.I.Sarianidi opened the Temple City
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Blythe Intaglios are not as famous as the Nazca Lines in Peru, but they are equally interesting and hold many secrets to our
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Could Dwarka be the oldest civilization in human history? Krishna's legendary Dwarka built on the site of an even earlier sacred city, named Kususthali,
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists exploring Lake Huron, one of the five Great Lakes of North America have found traces of an ancient lost civilization that is
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AncientPages.com - With recent discoveries of "new" spaces or chambers behind the so-called "Gantenbrink’s Door" in the Southern Shaft and another "door’ in the Northern The shaft of the
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