Ancient Artifacts
Thousands of intriguing ancient artifacts have been discovered world-wide. Some of these ancient artifacts give us a deeper understanding of our ancestors’ customs, traditions, beliefs, level of technology and scientific achievements. Many of the artifacts are also mysterious and puzzling because we haven’t yet been able to determine their true purpose.
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Mourning rings honouring post-medieval dead, emblazoned with skulls and crosses, have been declared archaeological treasure in Wales. Post-medieval mourning is revealed in skulls and inscriptions on three rings
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At a site near the Southwest Alaska village of Quinhagak archeologists have unearthed Yup’ik artifacts and the old village continues to reveal artifacts that give a glimpse into
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Nearly a year ago, a sacrificial altar dedicated to an unknown Pagan god, Porobonus, was discovered in Bulgaria. The limestone artifact, dating back
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Decades ago, the world's oldest footwear was discovered in a cave in remote central Oregon. Now archaeologists will revisit this fascinating cave, in the hope of shedding new
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AncientPages.com - Amateur archaeologists have made a sensational find of Viking Age silver coins in a field in Errested near Haderslev in south Jutland. So far, a total
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Ministry of Antiquities launches fund raising campaign to buy 4500-year-old statue sold last year in London, stops archeological cooperation with Northampton Museum for selling it Egypt's antiquities minister
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Cyrus Cylinder, sometimes referred to as the first “bill of human rights,” traces its origins to the Persian king Cyrus the Great’s
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists identified three archaeological sites in Llagaden community, Magdalena, Cajamarca, Peru. They also found archaeological evidence in the form of pottery remains, which date back to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Keezhadi, a small hamlet in Sivaganga district, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a special place, where an important part
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During excavations at Mexico City’s Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site, archaeologists have discovered a massive tzompantli, or trophy skull rack of sacrificed human skulls. It was built between
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A mutilated figurine of Ancient Roman god Mars has been found by archaeologists during the excavations of the Early Byzantine and medieval Bulgarian city of Missionis, also known
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AncientPages.com - Excavations at the Central Anatolian province of Çorum’s Alacahöyük site, one of the significant centers of the ancient Hittite civilization and Turkey’s first national excavation field,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jade suits were first documented in literature around AD 320, although there is archaeological proof of their existence that dates back thousands of
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AncientPages.com - Unfortunately, conventional archaeology refers to these very controversial, ancient 'out of place artifacts' as 'ritual objects'. Not much is known about the mysterious bronze gears discovered in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This is a depiction of the infamous tooth worm believed by many people in the past to bore holes in human teeth and cause
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Codex Washingtonianus is the world's third oldest Bible, and it is at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art. Codex Washingtonianus is the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The world's oldest shoe was discovered in Armenian cave and is around 5,500 years old. The artifact is older than famous Egyptian pyramids and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This carved head in ivory is eight centimeters high and is dated to about 26,000 BC. It seems to depict a man with protruding
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Italy's famous City Park of Vulci (Vulci Archaeological Naturalistic Park) north of Rome has its ancient secrets but at the same time gives the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Over one thousand years ago, in open, hand-built wooden ships equipped with massive, hand-loomed sails, the Vikings navigated the extremely challenging waters of
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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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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Now, this is a surprise. What is Star Wars Master Yoda doing in a medieval manuscript? If you're a Star War fan, then you
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AncientPages.com - One of the UK’s most important medieval manuscripts is surprisingly revealing ghosts from the past after new research and imaging work discovered eerie faces and lines of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Incan Empire, which stretched for over 2000 miles from the north to the south and had an estimated 10 million population -
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - It's covered with mysterious ancient signs and remarkable engravings of geometric shapes. Who made these astonishing drawings? There are about 497 signals written on the sculptures
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A. Sutherland AncientPages.com - The so-called "Tartaria Tablets" were examined by a number of scientists from all across the world and isotope carbon 14 dating revealed they were created
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A controversial scroll known as the Life of Issa, the Best of the Sons of Men, reveals how Jesus spent several years in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Nimrud lens is 3,000-year-old object that could re-write the history of science. Although the telescope was officially invented in the 16th century,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Fuente Magna is a very controversial artifact that is sometimes referred to as America's Rosetta Stone. This mysterious object raises a number
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AncientPages.com - There are still many mysterious ancient scripts, tablets, codes and maps that until this day remain undeciphered. Here we take a look at some of the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Genetic Disc is a remarkable artifact that could re-write ancient history and humanity's ancient beginnings. The disc, carved in Lydite is only
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Ancient Technology
A . Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Discoveries of man-made objects enclosed in pieces of rock or coal could possibly offer very persuasive evidence that in the "impossibly" remote
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ring wasn't always only a symbol of wealth, infinity, friendship and a magical talisman that protected from injuries and "the evil eye". In
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In ancient times people saw the world in a very different way. This collection of maps must be one of the strangest representations
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Nevada is full of archaeological and anthropological discoveries - antiquities, no one is able to explain. One of these shocking discoveries gives us evidence
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AncientPages.com - From Neolithic times, the Chinese have been extremely fond of jade and have made this magical stone - an inseparable part of their culture and art. In
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The origin of this ancient giant book is unknown. It has been compared to the Seven Wonders of the World in the Middle
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1957 a young boy, Karl-Ludvig "Ludi" von Bezing (now famous Austrian-South African mineral collector), saw pieces of some mysterious heads while playing
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Centuries ago, Timbuktu - sometimes called the city of 333 saints - was most famous as a center of scholarship. The city was once
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - In Canada, there is a very odd artifact that is possibly thousands of years old and is thought to pre-date the Pyramids of Egypt. The enigmatic statue
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are books that still remain unread because their writing and language are a mystery. The Rohonczi Codex is just such a book filled
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