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.
History Archive
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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 - We are today so used to the name that we hardly think about how the Vatican got its name. The truth is that
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jarlshof is an ancient settlement near Sumburgh Head, the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northern Scotland. It is one of the
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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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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Caesarion was murdered on August 23, 30 B.C., only 17 years old. He was the last King of the Egyptian Ptolemies, most probably
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lugalzagesi was a Sumerian king who reigned c. 2341 BC - 2316 BC and lived in the mid-fourteenth century BC. According to his
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One autumn morning in 1578, the watchmen scanned the Pacific Ocean from the top of the fortifications of the major city and seaport
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Lengyel culture that developed in southern Europe was initially linked to the site of Lengyel in Tolna county, in the southwestern part
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 2334 BC, Sargon became the first emperor in the history of the world. Most probably, his great Akkadian kingdom was not a new
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - They say it is only a legend, nothing more. You can believe it or not. Still, it could be a true story that
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Ellen Lloyd- AncientPages.com - Mystery and rumors still surround Feodor Kuzmich, who 1836, suddenly entered the Siberian town of Krasnoufimsk, in Perm province, riding on a white horse.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Nazi photo album that was made out of the skin and hair of World War II Nazi death camp victims has been
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Gonzalo Guerrero dreamed about visiting foreign lands and meeting exotic people when he was a small boy. He had heard about Christopher Columbus's
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - After four months, the Scottish botanist Robert Fortune reached Shanghai, China. It was a hot September day in 1848, but he had no
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – It’s strange that Khafre, the son of Pharaoh Khufu and the builder of the second of the three Pyramids of Giza, is somehow
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - History shows no limits in the entertainment world. Since people seem interested in a variety of things, it’s possible to earn money on
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The seventh and last king of Rome was Tarquin the Proud, who reigned between 535 BC–509 BC. Tarquin - a tyrant noted for
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Assyriologists have identified around twenty central provinces, and much we know today about Sumer originates from archives related to the sites of Girsu (Tello), Umma,
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - Most scholars agree the ancient Sumerians were the earliest developed civilization in our recorded history. Mesopotamia is, therefore, often characterized as the cradle
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - After many successful campaigns in the region of the Levant (of today’s Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine), Nebuchadnezzar suffered a heavy defeat
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Life for the Lemko people has always been challenging. Being a small but distinctive minority, they have been under pressure from many European
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Following the assassination of Domitian of the Flavian Dynasty (81–96) on September 18, 96, a new Emperor appeared on the same day. Domitian
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AncientPages.com - By many measures, Nicolas Bourbaki ranks among the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. Largely unknown today, Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jan Hus (1372 – 1415) was a controversial Czech thinker and reformer in the Roman Catholic Council of Constance (1414–18). He was convicted
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Being small-sized does occasionally have advantages, especially if you are a Ninja who has been sent on a deadly mission. Sometimes referred to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Francis Walsingham was an English politician and most trusted adviser to Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603). He served her faithfully for about 30 years,
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Sword of Saint Wenceslas, also known as the Coronation Sword of Bohemia, has its beginnings in the Kingdom of Bohemia, and it
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In his great work "Histories," Herodotus mentions an interesting historical event in 529 BC when Cyrus the Great II, the Elder (about 590 - 529
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Much of what we know about Queen Teuta comes from ancient Roman sources. Teuta is a historical figure sometimes described as an "ancient pirate
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Samurai Era 1185-1868 was an exciting period in the history of Japan. The Samurai warriors, who occasionally remind of knights of Medieval
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Some people are so dedicated to a cause that they can do things most of us consider incredible. When Rhodogune of Parthia learned
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among many brave and rebellious women of old times that conquered the world was also Jeanne de Clisson (1300-1359). She took revenge for
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - We have been using this cultural achievement of the ancient Romans for at least 2,500 years. Roman square capitals (also called capitalis monumentalis,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - From the late Middle Ages until the mid-17th century, Italy was widely known for employing mercenary leaders – condottieri. In his book "Mercenary
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - The Kingdom of Judah was born when the people of Israel demanded to have a king reign over them, as the surrounding nations
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient sources, Aglaonice (also Aganice) is mentioned as the first Greek female astronomer of the 2nd or 1st century BC and natural philosopher.
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