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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most of us would say that we’ve had unusual dreams we cannot easily explain. There is a saying that dreams we remember and can
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Biblical Mysteries
David Tee - AncientPages.com - Capernaum was first discovered in the early 19th century AD. The father of archaeology, Edward Robinson, was the first to excavate at Tell Hum,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Her Greek name points to Selene as the moon and she is associated with the word 'selas,' which also means 'light'. Her Roman
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient records confirm more than 33,000 smiths up to the beginning of the modern era. Japanese weapon history goes long back in time. Still, the
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Ancient Symbols
David Tee - AncientPages.com -When it comes to ancient myths, legends, and symbols, one has to be careful how one reads the old information. That is because some
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When workers announced they had found peculiar bones in a graveyard near a castle In France, the excitement spread. Many became involved in the
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We all get nervous and restless during a power outage. Being left without electricity and proper light makes us feel helpless. Now, this may
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Greek mythology Astrape and Bronte were twin goddesses of lightning and thunder. They were attendants of Zeus and responsible for carrying his powerful
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Inchbrayock stone, also known as the Samson stone is a remarkable and truly fascinating ancient artifact. Found in 1849, in the graveyard
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Ancient Symbols
David Tee - AncientPages.com - What does the eye mean? It is the big question, and the history of the Eye of Horus is fascinating. An Eye of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It was said that she had a nasty habit of interfering with everything. She was outspoken, full of energy, and hot-tempered. Bona Sforza
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Xipe Totec was an Aztec god worshiped by people across what is now central and western Mexico and the Gulf coast. It was a
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPage.com - The execution of the Cathars is a sad story in European history. From the 11th till the beginning of the 14th century, Catharism was
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - History is not often kind. While some historical figures, like the Tudors, the Yorks, and Lancasters, have extensive information about them that survives
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - The demise of the Roman Empire left a power vacuum, not just in Italy but also in the Frankish territory in what is
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Pythagoras of Samos, an ancient Greek philosopher who made great contributions to mathematics and founded the Pythagorean School of Mathematics in Cortona, a
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the Hellenistic era, worship of the Greek God Hermes was combined with the cult of the Egyptian God Thoth, which gave rise to
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most have heard of the Holy Grail that is believed to have been the be the cup that Jesus Christ drank from at the
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Fascinating and mysterious underground Longyou Grottoes (also known as Longyou Caves) must have been some kind of an extraordinary man-made project of the ancient
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Easter Island keeps many ancient secrets. One of them is an intriguing "kneeling moai or simply "Tukuturi" figure that was discovered on Easter Island
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians worshipped a very large number of gods and more than 1,500 of them are known by name. Yet, ancient Egyptians also believed
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Greek mythology, Hermes (Roman name: Mercury) was the emissary and messenger of the gods, the patron of shepherds and their flocks and wanderers.
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - Was Moll Cutpurse a product of the ages? Many historians cannot seem to find what made Moll Frith leave her upstanding ways and
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A cornucopia (from Latin 'cornu copiae') - horn of plenty ) is often depicted in paintings and on friezes. It is a hollow horn-shaped
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Civilizations
David Tee - AncientPages.com - When the Egyptians enshrined the name Shasu on the Merenptah war scenes at Karnak, they knew exactly whom they were talking about. After all,
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 727, the world's first mechanical clock was constructed by the Chinese Tantric Buddhist monk and mathematician Yixing (683-727). It was also an astronomical
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting ancient places in North America that offer knowledge about our ancestors’ beliefs and clues about mysterious races that played an
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - You may have heard of his son, Nebuchadnezzar II, more than you heard of Nabopolassar but the latter originated the Neo-Babylonian empire when the
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - People of ancient India were famous for building outstanding stepwells and their architecture varies by type, location, and age. Early stepwells were made of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com -Much has been written about the Vikings and often by people who have little knowledge about Viking history. Another reason why Vikings’ reputation has
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What would you do if you learned something terrible would happen to you and your family? Most of us would do what Oedipus
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Anyone interested in unexplained phenomena knows that not everything we see can be easily explained scientifically. The human mind is fascinated with unexplained sightings
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are hundreds of prehistoric megaliths and several impressive ancient stone statues located in the Bada Valley, Central Sulawesi just south of the
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Biblical Mysteries
David Tee - AncientPages.com - The city of what is now called the City of David, was first established somewhere in the 3 millennium BC. It was Canaanite and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Followers of the Greek party god Dionysus (in Greek: Dionysos) certainly knew how to enjoy themselves. The god Dionysus was very popular in ancient
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Hypatia was a great ancient scholar who was more interested in science than religion. Her quest for scientific knowledge was admirable but clouded
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Slavic mythology, a figure known as "Lady Midday," also referred to as "Midday Spirit" or "Poludnica," is a female noon devil. She
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Could man be of a greater antiquity than previously thought? Did the inhabitants of Britain, Germany and France once in the remote past share
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This golden helmet is over two millennia old and was accidentally found in Poiana Cotofenesti (now called Poiana Varbilau), southern Romania, in 1929
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Civilizations
A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sri Lanka’s ancient site of historical and archaeological significance is dominated by a massive column of rock the so-called ‘Sigiriya Rock’. Sigiriya rock (or the
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