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Celtic Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - People have always believed in vampires. This very old belief was deeply held in the Celtic culture and very widespread in ancient Europe.
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Archaeoastronomy
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Our ancestors were fascinated with the night sky. They watched the movements of celestial bodies, observed solar and moon eclipses and created calendars
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pharaoh Snefru (Sneferu) was the founder of the 4th dynasty during the Old Kingdom. Snefru is considered the greatest builder in Egyptian history, who
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On December 31, Scotland celebrates Hogmanay. It’s a very old tradition, and the celebrations continue into the first couple days of January. Many local
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Humans and dogs have shared a special relationship for thousands of years. Dogs are our companions, trusted friends, and family members. They bring
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is a limestone monument that celebrates thirty-one successful years of military campaigns by king Shalmaneser III and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There are still many things we don’t know about Neanderthals. Still, new discoveries provide us with knowledge about our closest extinct human relatives
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Thulamela is an intriguing ancient kingdom created by advanced ancient Shona people whose origin remains unknown. "Thulamela' means "place of birth" (or "the place
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lachit Bhorphukan was a great warrior from Assam, where he was a commander of the army of the Ahom Kingdom. Lachit bravely defeated the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Elephanta Caves, believed to be dated to about the 7th century, represent a complex of ancient cave temples on Elephanta Island, located
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Is the mysterious Chinchorro culture related to an ancient unknown Atacama Desert civilization? What can new studies reveal about the world’s oldest mummies? The
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bushido, which literally means "way of the warrior," is the code of chivalry developed by the warriors in feudal Japan known as the samurai.
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Vikings’ success in reaching distant lands lies in their remarkable longships. The Vikings’ ships were the European Dark Ages' greatest technical and artistic
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AncientPages.com - It is in the nature of humans to wonder about the beginnings of life and how the earth came to be. Therefore, many cultures have developed creation
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most famous embodiments of evil and bad luck in Slavic beliefs is Likho (Licho) in Eastern Slavic mythology, she is
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jemdet Nasr - related to the Jemdet Nasr period (3100–2900 BC) - was a small but important prehistoric settlement in southern Mesopotamia, what
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Biblical Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ophir was famous for its magnificent gold. It was a Biblical El Dorado from where King Solomon received a cargo of gold, silver, sandalwood,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Vishap stones represent one of the more interesting mysteries of Armenian archaeology. Vishaps are menhirs (large carved stones) that date back to 2000 BC.
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Just as in ancient Egypt, music played a very important role in Assyria and Babylonia. While the Egyptians believed that music was the voice
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Needless to say, the first bathrooms were far from what we are used to in modern times, but the history of bathrooms is
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Only a fragmentary but still very interesting Babylonian myth tells the story of a gigantic bird with a lion’s head, whose flapping wings were
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The largest and best preserved ancient Inca ruins in Ecuador are located near Cuenca, in the province of Cañar, Ecuador. They are known as Ingapirca
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pandavleni (Pandav Leni) Caves were built from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD. They form a large complex of the 24
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Anasazi people was a civilization that arose as early as 1500 BC and the remains of their dwellings can be found in south-west
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Olduvai Gorge is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley that stretches through East Africa. It is located in the eastern Serengeti Plains in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In China, he is mostly known as Master Kong or Kong Fuzi, we know him as Confucius. Like the other great teachers of Central
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What did ancient Greek costumes, masks, and theatre look like? Theater played an important role in ancient Greece. The history of the Greek
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are still many ancient secrets hidden in the Ciemna Cave (Dark Cave), located in a river valley slope in the gorgeous Ojców National
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AncientPages.com - Historical records reveal a number of truly bizarre forms of taxes people had to put up with. Taxation problems date back to earliest recorded history and as
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AncientPages.com - If asked to think of a single individual who epitomises the decadence, destruction and debauchery of Ancient Rome, the name Nero would surely be on many people’s
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AncientPages.com - On November 20, 1739, the Battle of Porto Bello started. It was a historic naval battle between a British naval force aiming to capture the settlement
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The earliest known star map in Egypt was discovered more than eighty years ago and represented the central part of the tomb's decoration; inside the
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - By combining archaeological research with aerial photography and creative visualization technologies, a talented filmmaker has produced stunning recreation of Caterthun Iron Age Forts
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lindholm Høje is an Iron Age and Viking Age burial site just North of Aalborg and Nørresundby on the South slope of Voerbjerg Hill
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In our ancestors’ consciousness, shaped by legends and myths, marshes and other wetlands were considered to be elusive and unpredictable places of evil and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The death of Balder (Baldr or Balðr) - a favorite of both gods of Aesir - is probably the most famous of all the
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Florentine Codex is an ancient document that describes the life of the Aztecs, their religious ceremonies, astronomy, economy, social order, the conquest of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Full Moon is related to numerous ancient myths and legends and even paranormal tales. Many different superstitions and beliefs influenced our ancestors who
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AncientPages.com - On November 12, 1035, King Canute (Cnut The Great) died, a Danish King of England and ruler of one of the largest Nordic empires. The Viking king had
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Parthian people established an empire that lasted almost 500 years, from the mid-3rd century BC until 224 CE. Their empire was the most
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