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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One would think respecting the remains of the dead should be self-evident, but it is not always so. It certainly wasn’t the case
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many people have fought and sacrificed their lives for independence. Some of them are forgotten, while others have become a symbol of freedom
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Being a Pharaoh in ancient Egypt could be honorable, prestigious, and dangerous. At the end of his rule, everything went wrong for Pharaoh
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A long time ago, a woman who lived in Thebes, Egypt, was mummified and placed inside a beautiful sarcophagus. The lady was a
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the Old Testament, Ashurbanipal is mentioned in the Book of Ezra, 4:10 - "and the other people whom the great and honorable
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Greatly overshadowed by his son, Ramesses II, who is today hailed as the greatest Pharaoh of all times, Seti I did more for ancient
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Having a high opinion of himself and believing he was destined to become a great ruler, Pharaoh Ramesses II wanted the world to
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among the pyramid builders of the Old Kingdom (2686 – 2181) is king Unas (also Unis, Wenis) (2375-2345 BC). The pyramid of Unas at
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The first philosophical concepts appeared in the Greek colonies around the 7th-6th centuries BC. Initially, they were related to the creation and nature
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Nakano Takeko had a choice. She could marry or die in battle. She chose the latter. Having the heart and spirit of a
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As the eldest son of Cyrus the Great, Cambyses II had an obligation to expand the Achaemenid Empire founded by his father. It
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When Cato was a child, one could see he would be different one day. He was extremely stubborn and could not tolerate obvious
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Compassion is not an emotion most associate with ancient Egyptian Pharaohs who could be fearless, harsh, and ruthless rulers. History judges Pharaohs by looking
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Some people are destined to rule, and some are obliged to follow in their family's footsteps. Being an emperor was a nightmare to
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Shortly before Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici died, he told his son Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici never to go against the will
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Despite being an outlaw, Sam Bass was considered a good man of a kind nature. Sam Bass became Texas's beloved bandit because he
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Emma of Normandy is one of the most intriguing Medieval queens who pushed England into a new era, and yet, she is today
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ahmose I was carrying a heavy burden on his shoulders when he ascended the throne to rule as the pharaoh of Egypt. He
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The history of Emperor Ashoka shows it’s never too late to change and become a good person. Emperor Ashoka was a remarkable person
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Tanis, an ancient area in Egypt's Nile Delta, was an early subject of the archaeologists' interest. The city's name was already well known
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - By modern definition, a tyrant is a cruel and oppressive ruler hated by most people. Peisistratos was a tyrant, but this doesn’t mean
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When a strange prophecy is fulfilled, we can either call it a coincidence or simply say we believe it’s possible to predict future
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sybil Ludington (1761 – 1839) was a celebrated hero of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among the earliest workshops that designed and created mold-blown glass was the one that belonged to Ennion, but even before him, there were
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Few have heard his name, but to the people living in a small village in Kyrgyzstan, he was an extraordinary man and hero.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Giza pyramids belong to Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, and vandals and thieves looted them long ago. The southernmost is associated with Menkaure (Mykerinos, in
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - No one knows his real name or date of birth and death. His entire life is shrouded in mystery. Some doubt he existed,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Louis Le Prince vanished under mysterious circumstances, but did he willingly decide to hide from the outside world, or was he murdered? Le
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - At the moment of his terrible death, Polycarp of Smyrna – one of the Apostolic Fathers and the most exceptional leader of the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Vercingetorix was among the best-known and greatest Gallic leaders. He was a militant leader who courageously challenged Julius Caesar. He lost his battle but
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - John Hawkwood was widely known in Europe eight hundred years ago. He was an English military in the Hundred Years' War (1337 to
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Erik the Red was a famous Viking today remembered for colonizing Greenland and being the father of the great Viking explorer Leif Erikson. Credit: Adobe Stock
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - History has a way of not being kind to individuals, or historians, human sources, and other fact-gathering mechanisms are not kind to historical
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cnut The Great (in Swedish: "Knut den Store") became king over large parts of northern Europe, where commerce and culture flourished in his
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is no lack of strange personalities in our history books. Some queens and kings were mad, but some were simply very eccentric.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - For more than 500 years, one unsolved murder mystery has occupied the thoughts and imagination of people around the world. On April 9,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Secrets and legends surround Knights Templar. They were a powerful, wealthy medieval organization that has fascinated historians, writers, and the public for many
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We associate all these names – Ragnar Lodbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Bjorn Ironside, Erik the Red, Eric "Bloodaxe" Haraldsson - with courageous and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Little is known about Hero of Alexandria except that he was a remarkable ancient engineer far ahead of his time. He invented several sophisticated
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In The Valley of the Queens there is an enormous and spectacular ancient tomb that belongs to Queen Nefertari (1290–1224 BC). Nefertari Meritmut, whose
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - History has a way of hiding the truth and letting myths and legends ascend to prominence. Very little credible information about Anne Neville's survival.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The oldest story about Dido was written by Timaeus, an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 3rd century BC. Dido’s original name ‘Elissa’ is related to
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