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African Mythology
AncientPages.com - In 1976 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey and other scientists reported that they’d found ancient hominin footprints at a site in Laetoli, northeastern Tanzania. The footprints were frozen
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The famous French king Louis XIV (1638 – 1715) used the Sun as his symbol, and he felt he had a good reason
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When and where did the first human appear? For years, archaeologists and scientists have tried to answer this troublesome question and new discoveries
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the area of Nangur village in Nagapattinam district, located in southern India, found evidence indicating the existence of human settlement
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AncientPages.com - A 17th-century dolls’ house must number among the more unusual source “texts” through which we can find out about women’s lives in the past. Yet, for
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The so-called "Sacred Road" has been unearthed between two ancient cities Stratonikeia and Lagina, in what is today western Turkey’s Aegean Mugla province. Both
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It sounds almost too incredible to be true, and yet, there is evidence something very strange was witnessed in the skies in a
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Jeramy Neugin - AncientPages.com - In Cherokee beliefs, the Sun and Moon, the ancient world, and the first man and woman were all created by a number of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Thousands of coins dating back to the Roman era could be the work of First Century counterfeiters, researchers say. Archaeologists suspect, that up
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The First News reports that about seventy Arab coins have been discovered on the graveyard near the town of Kamień Pomorskie in the
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 1969, members of the German Warka expedition discovered an ancient damaged clay tablet in Uruk, the first city built by Gilgamesh about
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers analyzed the role of diet in the ability of the ancient Maya to withstand periods of severe climatic stress. An increase in the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – What many people think should have happened long ago, has now happened, but it's better late than never. The ancient city of Babylon
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two full-sized Viking burial ships have been discovered in the Swedish municipality of Uppsala, located in the central part of the country. According
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study reports that ancient people in east Asia, were reshaping their skulls as early as 12,000 years ago. The so-called elongated
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - One of the problems with myths is that those that cover the same subject, do not necessarily agree on the details. That is the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The ancient Roman marble child statue head, dated to the third century AD, and a chamber pot have been discovered at the site of
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we discussed who they Inca were and where they came from. It soon became clear that the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As the son of the mighty god Enki, creator and protector of humanity, Marduk plays an important role in Mesopotamian mythology and the
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AncientPages.com - The life of Caterina Cornaro could easily be the plot of a novel or TV drama. One of the most significant woman of Venice’s golden age, Cornaro (1454-1510)
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Philistines - known for their biblical conflict with the Israelites - were an ancient people who were lived in south cost of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Science in Poland reports that Polish archaeologists discovered dozens of mummies dating back 2,000 years during excavations in the vicinity of the world`s
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The huge, rectangular ditch - the so-called "Dra Moat" carved around the oldest Egyptian pyramid, the Pyramid of Djoser - was a 3-D model
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - According to a new fascinating theory there may be a secret ancient lunar calendar hidden at a Hittite sanctuary in Turkey. Archaeologists have
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Before the Spaniards arrived in 1532 AD., an impressive and very wealthy empire lived in the Andes. Famous for its gold, this civilization
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Brothers and sisters can love or hate each other. Siblings can also be rivals, which was by no means uncommon in the ancient
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 3,000-year-old head sculpture of an eternally-young Tutankhamun -- the Egyptian pharaoh known as King Tut -- goes under the hammer this week in
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AncientPages.com - Although the universe of Game of Thrones is steeped in a medieval atmosphere, several of the central in the series – Daenerys Targaryen, Joffrey Baratheon and Jon Snow –
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Slavic mythology, Stribog was the god of wind, storms, and air and an ancient deity of the heavens. He was a connector
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Battle of Abrittus was one of the greatest battles of the Late Antiquity. Roman three legions were defeated, and Roman Emperor Trajan Decius
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A peculiar bronze mace head has accidentally been unearthed in a region that is today modern Poland. The object is rather baffling. Not
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The beginnings of the city of Ashur, (also known as Assur) date back to the third millennium. The city was located about sixty
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We continue to explore the controversial Hollow Earth theory and this time we will discuss some of the most interesting questions and the
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AncientPages.com - As early as Homer, more than 2,500 years ago, Greek mythology explored the idea of automatons and self-moving devices. By the third century B.C., engineers in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Kingdom of Mitanni reached the height of its power between 1500 and 1240 BC and controlled trade routes up the Euphrates from
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study conducted by Nozomi Kawai, professor of Egyptology at Kanazawa University in Japan suggests that Tutankhamun’s chariot had sunshades, reports Ahram
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study conducted by Marianne Moen of the University of Oslo shows that gender roles during Viking times were not nearly as
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists have discovered a huge structure along with ceramics, statues, columns or pillars and other features relating to the building. The underwater
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It’s not the first time scientists rely on ancient knowledge to solve modern crisis. This time, researchers are investigating how it’s possible to
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Ellen Lloyd -AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we discussed why some scientist suggest the Earth could be hollow. We pointed out that the idea sounds
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Leonard Farra - AncientPages.com - For thousands of years, in many ways, the serpent has played a role in religions, folk customs, and superstitious beliefs. Why did some
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Roman ruler Laelianus would have been pleased to hear archaeologists have discovered a coin depicting him. Unfortunately, this is something he could never
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