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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many ancient places mentioned in myths, legends and sacred books are often dismissed as unreal because they have never been found. Sometimes ancient cities
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many strange ancient artifacts have been discovered in North America and some of them have never been properly investigated by scientists. It has happened
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Pax Sinica (in Latin:"Chinese peace") was similar in its meaning to Pax Romana, and it applied to the period of peace in East Asia, maintained by social, cultural, ideological, or economic
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Victory Stela of King Piankhi is an important surviving artifact related to the historical period when the Nubian King Piye (formerly called Piankhi) invaded
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient myths and legends from the South West Pacific reveal an ancient civilization came to their region long before locals set foot on the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It’s time to return back to the underground world we left in part 2 of this series. In this article, we will continue to
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Vikings were famous for their raids and conquests of new lands, but they also had other ‘talents.’ The Norse warriors were cunning businessmen who
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The unicorn is a legendary animal that has fascinated people for ages. Depictions of this magical and beautiful animal have been found on ancient
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we entered the mysterious underground world and made a strange discovery. In part 2 of this article we
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists are slowly piecing together the fascinating history of the mysterious Maya Snake Kings, who created a powerful kingdom in a remote corner
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wondered how much knowledge certain secret societies keep and guard behind their closed doors? Maybe more than we could possibly imagine.
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 399 B.C., one of the greatest philosophers of all time, Socrates was sentenced to death. Socrates was a courageous man who stood up
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Studies of preserved ancient documents often reveal incredible knowledge of our ancestors. We often hear there is nothing new under the Sun, and the
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Watets - AncientPages.com - A new type of foot soldier emerged around 800 BC in Greece when the country was still recovering after the fall of Mycenaean
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary Viking treasure connected to King Harald Bluetooth has been found on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea in northern Germany.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the first part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, "Gylfaginning" we find a story how the Aesir gods built the walls around their home,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are some ancient mysteries that cannot be easily solved. This is especially true when witnesses to strange events are long gone, and all
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Ancient Symbols
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Sator Square is an ancient magical word puzzle that fascinates historians and scientists. It was first discovered at the end of the
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - The expression “"Pyrrhic Victory" has a long history that goes back to the third century BC and is related to the king Pyrrhus of Epirus (319 BC
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An ancient lost civilization with advanced astronomical knowledge spent considerable time in North America, a very long time ago. We find traces of ancient
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ptah was among the most revered creator gods of the Egyptian pantheon, next to Amun and Ra. He was the creator god and keeper
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pharaoh Merneptah was Ramesses II’s 13th son. He succeeded his father when he was in his early sixties and reigned for ten years between
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One ancient king was warned about the coming disaster and he constructed a mysterious underground city illuminated by artificial lights. He knew destruction was
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most prominent Roman Emperors of the third century was Aurelian (214 AD - 275 AD). The situation in the Roman Empire
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, Kvasir was an amazing being created from the saliva of the Aesir and the Vanir gods. Kvasir is mentioned in
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is a certain Native American tribe that shares many similarities with an ancient group of people in Northern Europe that we know very
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How do we define a ‘foreigner today? Most people would say it is a person who is born in, or comes from a
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Hidden from the outside world for thousands of years, the box was safely guarded by men who were keepers of sacred ancient wisdom. On
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A. Sutherland - Ancient Pages.com - The Polish astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 -1543) made crucial observations in Rome in 1500. Copernicus's heliocentric worldview was revolutionary and ended the old
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Katana is the most famous Japanese Samurai sword. The Japanese Katana sword is considered "the soul of the Samurai" and one of the deadliest-edged
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today, two ancient scientists, Eratosthenes Of Cyrene and Posidonius of Rhodes are famous for their attempts to calculate the circumference of the Earth. As previously
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, giant Mimir usually appears in the company of Odin, the most powerful and wisest of the gods. The giant Mimir, however, can
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Aesir were warlike gods who lived in total separation from the Vanir, the gods of fertility. The Aesir lived in Asgard and the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did Empress Cixi poison her enemies to stay in power? Historians find it suspicious that some people close to Empress Cixi died suddenly under
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Algonquian folklore, the Pukwudgies are magical little forest people. They are grey-faced humanoid creatures with large ears and only knee-high or smaller. They
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Celtic Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you look through the Irish mist, you might catch a glimpse of the enigmatic Celtic Otherworld. Some ancient legends tell this beautiful place
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Ancient History Facts
Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient Egypt, where religion was an important part of daily life, everything focused on pleasing the gods. Certain gods such as Bes
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Norse creation myth in the Poetic Edda tells how the gods were born and how the earth was created. It is said that there
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Maat represented the most essential religious concept of the Egyptian view of the world. It was a concept of order of the world
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The identity of mysterious Valkyrie Eir remains an enigma. There is reason to believe that she once played an important role in Norse
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