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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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Did the Library of Alexandria, the greatest collection of knowledge and literature disappear out of sight but survived by being saved? Background image:
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Was there once a black pyramid in Egypt that has been erased from the pages of history? Could the pyramid be buried beneath
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - On the morning of August 24, 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy erupted. It was one of the largest volcanic explosions in recorded
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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - While many still dispute the existence of ancient giants, some archaeologists are convinced people of superhuman size built several cities in the distant
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The search for the childhood home of Jesus started many years ago and now there is evidence suggesting it may have been found underneath the Sisters
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 200 years after the rediscovery of an Egyptian temple, a German-Egyptian research team has uncovered the original colors of inscriptions that
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It’s a race against time and there isn’t much time left to uncover the secrets of a rare Norwegian Viking ship burial before
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What many hoped would never happen has occurred. After years of protests from Druids, archaeologists, scientists and the public in general, the U.K.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If Ramses the Great, the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, was alive today, he would be proud to see how
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stonehenge’s fate is very uncertain right now and time is running out for this historical ancient site. Druids, archaeologists, historians, and many others
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It happens unfortunately far too often that ancient historical sites are vandalized, but then again, in some cases, greed knows no limits. Sometimes
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - We reported recently Viking graves in Norway had been a victim of vandalism and looting. Deliberate destruction of historical sites is a serious
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Destruction of historical and archaeological sites happens much too often. This time a huge Viking burial complex in Norway has become the victim
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Something strange took place around 2,500 B.C. in Britain. For some reason, Stone Age builders were suddenly in a hurry and they constructed
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many people are angry and with good reason. The beautiful and historic Hindu Sheetal temple in Karachi has been vandalized. Statues of Lord
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com – Sometimes you can stare at something without noticing it all. This carving has been hiding in plain sight for 900 years and millions
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - No matter what culture or place many are convinced some places are either cursed or still visited by those who died long ago.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An examination of two documented periods of climate change in the greater Middle East, between approximately 4,500 and 3,000 years ago, reveals local
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek -AncientPages.com - Belief in and practice of witchcraft in Europe goes far back in time. Witches were considered evil by Medieval people and the belief in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Some may wonder how a giant geoglyph like this one hasn’t been noticed until now, but there is an explanation. Located about 400
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We may soon get an even better glimpse into the remarkable life of the mighty conqueror, Alexander the Great. Being one of the
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Atlantean statues of Tula are four anthropomorphic characters representing ancient warriors who followed a Mesoamerican god king Quetzalcoatl, a feathered serpent. Quetzalcoatl represented
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Carved from a rock cliff face, the Kailasa Temple is named in honor of the sacred mountain-dwelling place of the god Shiva. It is considered
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During excavations at the Balatlar building complex in the northern province of Sinop, in northern Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed mosaics similar to those in the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - You don’t have to be an archaeologist to discovered something of great historical value. It seems indigenous residents may have found evidence of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two weeks ago, a team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered a burial well in Minya’s Al-Gharafa archaeological area of Tuna El-Gebel. The limestone coffin,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Named after Alexander the Great this legendary place remains as mysterious as fascinating. Locals call it Zendan-e Eskandar and the original purpose of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Iranian archaeologists have found an ancient settlement in the northwestern part of the country, near Beygush Tepe, an archaeological site in Chaldoran county,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When it comes to ancient history, we have seen on several occasions the line between what is impossible and not is thin. There
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Great Sphinx of Giza, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, Moai statues, Petra, Ephesus, and many, many other magnificent ancient sites can be added to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sinaloa's rocks covered with a variety of figures are true history rocks, a legacy of mythological traditions with roots in the Pre-columbian times
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) have digitally reconstructed buildings that can now be
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As already mentioned in part 1 of this article, in America, we come across a couple of places that are unusual because scientists
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The history of Sais goes back to Egypt's pre-dynastic times (before 3100 BC). It was once a beautiful Egyptian city located in the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The petroglyphs of Sego Canyon in Utah look like beings we see in science fiction movies, but these figures are not modern inventions.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The city of Teotihuacán in Mexico remains as intriguing as mysterious. There is still so much we do not know about Teotihuacán, a
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are several strange underwater formations in Canada and America that for some reason have never been properly examined. Could these submerged ruins
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In and around the Zagros Mountains area to the east of the great Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia, early humans lived since the Lower
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Every now and then, we come across strange and controversial archaeological discoveries that are naturally of great interest to all truth-seekers. In most
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Following the destruction of sacred caves in Western Australia, three heavy bosses are leaving the mining giant Rio Tinto. The company's board has
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com – A 3,000-year-old hill fort built by the mysterious Votadini tribe has been unearthed on top of Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland. Today, Arthur's
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Brien Foerster - AncientPages.com - Not far from some of the most famous ancient sites visited by tourists in the Sacred Valley of Peru, among the most mysterious
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