History
Powerful kings, queens, rulers, warriors and great battles have shaped our world. We take a closer look at some great historical personalities and events world-wide.
Take a journey through time and space and discover the fascinating history behind the complex world we inhabit today.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Lycurgus is mentioned in many ancient sources, but most modern historians refer to him as a semi-mythical individual. Some scholars say Lycurgus was
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AncientPages.com - Spartacus, a lowly barbarian slave whose rebellion ultimately proved a failure and whose followers died in the most ignominious of fashions, has become a modern symbol
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first European crusaders of the Holy Land were inspired by the fame and fortune awarded to the Norman conquerors in Europe, a
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Vikings
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the year 865 A.D., the Great Heathen Army, also known as the Great Viking Army, crossed the sea and dramatically changed the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Celts are mysterious people who played a crucial role in the history of ancient Europe. In this article, we take an in-depth
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once upon a time, there was an important commercial center on Gotland, the island located in the Baltic Sea, approximately 90 kilometers east
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ingvar Vittfarne (in English: Ingvar the Far-Travelled) (ca. 1016-1041) was a Viking chieftain from Mälardalen (Malar Valley) in central Sweden. The Icelandic saga
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Fingerprints have been a source of people's great fascination and can be traced back to ancient times. Handprints and fingerprints made by W.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Described in numerous literary works, movies, public monuments, and other memorials, Decebalus is considered a national hero in Romania. At the beginning of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On April 23, people in Ireland celebrate Brian Boru, one of their greatest heroes who became famous for chasing off the Vikings. Brian
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Zteve T Evans - AncientPages.com - Nova Anglia, or New England, was alleged to have been a community of exiled Anglo-Saxon nobles and warriors who intended it to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Money has been available in all shapes and weight classes. They could be light as a feather or heavy like a stone. Small,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Even ordinary people were involved in the flourishing trade, and soon Lydia became one of antiquity's most prosperous kingdoms. Gold stater of Croesus.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - For 4500 years, human life was controlled and even manipulated by money. Ever since ancient times, money has played a central role in
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AncientPages.com - Ancient historians loved to write about warfare and famous battles. While these millennia-old stories still feed modern imaginations – Homer’s “Iliad” provides the plot for the
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AncientPages.com - In the second episode of the TV show Lego Masters, contestants were asked to build a castle — then watch it be destroyed by a bowling ball.
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AncientPages.com - Domestic violence was endemic in the Roman world. Rome was a slave-owning, patriarchal, militarized culture in which violence (potential and actual) signaled power and control. Tragically,
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Zteve T Evans - AncientPages.com - The Brujo de Chiloé, or the Warlocks of Chiloé, were a secretive coven of male witches allegedly involved in witchcraft and crime
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the world’s longest human conflicts in history was between the Romans and Persians. The Hundred Years’ War and even Rome’s long
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - During the 18th to 20th Dynasties of the New Kingdom of Egypt (ca. 1550–1080 BC, Egyptian artisans who worked on the royal tombs
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Europe, the Knights Templar were the first known warrior monks, active during the Crusades. However, warrior monks did not only exist in Europe.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Stele of Tell al-Rimah, dated to 796 BC, is a stone stela from the reign of the Assyrian king Adad-nigari III (810-783 BC)
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the most important and interesting people mentioned in the Bible is King Saul, the first monarch of the United Kingdom of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It is often said the conquerors write history, which may be true in the case of King Penda. The early history of the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mentuhotep II of the 11th Dynasty is considered one of the most significant figures in ancient Egypt, closely associated with the South of Egypt and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Legendary British King Lud is shrouded in a veil of mystery. Did he ever exist? Was he the real founder of London or
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Marie Antoinette is today known as the French Queen, executed by the guillotine during the French Revolution. Much has been said and written
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Heliopolis (" city of the Sun," or "city of pillars") was a city in ancient Egypt, located right at the apex of the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com -"In Rodrigo Diaz's lifetime, there were in Spain and elsewhere many lords, commanders, or bosses. In his day, he was not unique but one
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to available ancient references, Takshashila was the first and earliest Buddhist center of Vedic learning, and the city of Takshashila itself also
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Djoser was possibly the founder of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom in Egypt. The Old Kingdom began with the third dynasty
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When stories about the mysterious Old Leather Man started circulating, many wanted to know more about the unusual man. People said they had
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The legendary Berber Queen Kahina was a strong woman with the courage and will to resist the Muslims when her kingdom was invaded.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Nicholas of Cusa, also known as Nicolaus Cusanus, Nicholas of Kues, and Nicolaus Krebs, was a man who wasn't afraid of speaking his
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius – (237-183 BC) was a Roman general and the greatest of the famous Roman family of the Scipios, aristocrats,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Some historical mysteries cannot be easily solved. One of them involves King William II, who died under mysterious circumstances. Historians are still debating
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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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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ogham is ancient writing, of which the earliest examples date back to the 4th and 6th centuries A.D. The language of the inscriptions
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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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