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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old stela known as Stela 87 was recently found by archaeologists working at the Tak'alik Ab'aj archaeological park in El Asintal, 85
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Scandal is perhaps not the best word to describe this news, but it’s certainly embarrassing and disappointing. What some suspected for a while
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, Skírnir, meaning "bright one" (in Old Norse), was a trusted servant and friend of Frey, a shining god bringing fertility,
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - A costly 14-year-long restoration project has finally come to an end and the public can now visit the magnificent Djoser Pyramid in Saqqara,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium in Düzce, which is believed to be the oldest settlement of the western Black Sea region, excavation work has been extended to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 4,000-year-old urban settlement has been discovered by a team of researchers from the Banaras Hindu University (BHU). The Babhaniyav village where the remnants
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Chinese Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of our earlier articles we devoted to the sacred Kunlun Mountains believed to be a Taoist paradise and the central pillar of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The long-lost capital of an ancient Maya kingdom in the backyard of a Mexican cattle rancher has been discovered by associate professor of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 1,000-year-old bronze coin was accidentally found by a little boy (now four-years-old) in Burglengenfeld in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, in the southeastern
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of Michigan researcher discovered pieces of jewelry in what is now Lesotho, an enclaved country within the border of South Africa. Ostrich
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The world's oldest wooden structure was recently unearthed in Eastern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It shows that Neolithic peoples were capable of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Mesopotamian (Babylonian-Akkadian) beliefs, Adad was a god of atmospheric phenomena. He mastered and controlled rains and floods, thunder, lightning, and storms. His
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The ancient stone chest was well camouflaged and not meant to be found by ordinary people. It has remained hidden from public view
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During excavations in the basement of the Courtauld Gallery in London, UK, archaeologists were amazed to unearth the remains of a medieval cesspit
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Constantinople became a new Rome, and the Emperor Constantine the Great celebrated the inauguration of his new capital city, and the name of
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Gran Coclé culture emerged in what is now the Panamanian province of Coclé, near the Santa Marta River. There is extraordinary archaeological
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - It’s time to return once again to Antarctica and explore some of the frozen continent’s many secrets. This article examines a strange encounter
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Some 2,500 years ago, a mysterious Nok Culture emerged in Nigeria. It was discovered in 1928, due to tin mining that was happening
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist has discovered a very rare ancient Roman artifact in a Lincolnshire field, UK. Experts say this beautiful and colorful horse
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The smallest Homo erectus cranium in Africa and diverse stone tools found at Gona, Ethiopia, indicate that human ancestors were more varied, both physically
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Patara Lighthouse was found during the excavations carried out in Patara Antique city, and the structure is exactly 60 years older than the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Sometimes archaeologists uncover evidence that confirms Biblical accounts, but not always. Ruins of a mysterious ancient temple in Jerusalem speak against certain Biblical
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A stone chest has been discovered in Balatlar Church in Sinop, northern Turkey. Archaeologists say the chest is believed to have stored fragments
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Hindu Mythology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Monkey God Hanuman is an important deity in Hindu mythology and one of the central characters of the Indian epic Ramayana. Hanuman is a
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Celtic Mythology
A. Sutherland—AncientPages.com—In Celtic and, especially, Irish mythology, Tir na n'Og is a realm of the afterlife and one of the Happy Islands known from legends. The 'Land of the
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Can you come up with a reason why you would deliberately remove your healthy thumbs? Ancient Roman males believed they had had a
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - Did an ancient superior civilization deliberately hide several cultural and scientific artifacts in deep, secret underground vaults? Are these ancient treasures from the
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On This Day In History
AncientPages.com - On February 29, 1576 - Antonio Neri , a Florentine priest, was born in Florence, Italy. Neri was a glass maker, who conducted experiments with colored glass
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 5,000-year-old Anatolian sword was identified in a monastery on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in the Lagoon City. A small sword
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Originally erected in 1158 to 1160, the magnificent Dormition Cathedral is currently undergoing restoration work. It’s not the first time the church has
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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 - Pyramid Texts represent the oldest known collection of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions containing religious texts, elaborate spells (or utterances), hymns, prayers, thousands of
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Brien Foerster - AncientPages.com - The Osirion is located at Abydos, behind, below and connected to the Temple of Seti I. When archaeologists like Flinders Petrie and Margaret
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 8,000 tree-shrouded structures of varying sizes along the sacbe (white road) - with enough total volume to fill approximately 2,900 Olympic
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egypt never ceases to amaze the world. This time archaeologists report the discovery of a beautiful, rare ancient leopard painting found on
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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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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - History of the ancient city of Asyut goes back about 4,000 years ago. Thousands of tombs carved into the rock and dating back
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers, professor of anthropology at the University
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A lost ancient kingdom dating to 1400 B.C. to 600 B.C., which may have defeated Phrygia, the kingdom ruled by King Midas, was
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Sometimes, people find objects beyond human understanding. This is exactly what happened to a man who stumbled upon a peculiar, polished sphere engraved
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