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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Tahpanhes was once an important city to the people of the Kingdom of Judah and ancient Egyptians. From the thirty-ninth chapter of Jeremiah
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Pharaoh Thutmose IV reigned from 1400–1390 B.C., and had a special relationship with the Great Sphinx at Giza. According to Thutmose IV, the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Brittany's fairy folklore, there is a frightening spirit, Ankou ("death"). Ankou is the personification of Death and a soul harvester. He is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,300-year old fragment of linen from the wrap of an Egyptian mummy, which is held in the University of Canterbury’s Teece Museum
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A rare stone showing the limits of the ancient city of Rome, was accidentally found in Rome. The stone is dated to the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This massive ancient structure, nicknamed the Ukrainian Stonehenge, has many secrets to tell. According to researchers, this kurgan (burial mound, sacred hill) located
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What ancient secrets are hidden in the Khentii Mountains? Is the tomb of the great warrior Genghis Khan hidden deep inside the mountains? Is
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It goes without saying that a man like Alexander the great who traveled to many foreign lands must have seen fascinating places and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A rare 3,000-year-old inscription with the name of a Biblical judge has been unearthed in Israel. This important archaeological discovery sheds more light
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the Saudi Heritage Commission have discovered fascinating rock inscriptions in the Hail region (northern Saudi Arabia) that depict the Babylonian King
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Greek mythology, Bellerophon was the son of the mortal Eurynome (Eurymede) and Glaucus, the son of Sisyphus and King of Corinth. Still, to many of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Studies of ancient Maya codices, along with investigations of their glyphs and other important archaeological findings, reveal the Maya developed a special relationship
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Information about ancient history can be obtained through a variety of means, even somewhat unusual ways. Scientists have used a news tool that
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Mahabharata and Ramayana are two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. These two literary masterworks contain a wealth of information and hold a
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Egyptian mythology, Meretseger presided over the Theban necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile, especially the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Once, a long time ago, there was a very precious herb in the ancient city of Cyrene, a Greek city on the North African
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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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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the most mysterious Biblical passages deals with the story of the witch of Endor. It's a fascinating story that can be
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - No matter what place or time, people have always studied the stars and other celestial objects. Archaeologists have discovered thousands of years old
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have gathered measurements of over 300 ancient fossils all over the world to analyze how climate change has altered our brain and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Kussara has never been found, but there is no reason to doubt its existence. Located somewhere in Anatolia, the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The great Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519) is long gone, but a new DNA study reveals he has 14 living male
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There is a fascinating and entirely different megalithic site known as Namoratunga. The site is located on the west side of Lake Turkana in
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Ancient History Facts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient Egyptian egg ovens are an excellent example demonstrating one should not underestimate how clever our ancestors were. About 2,000 years ago,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 51,000-year-old bone carving engraved with symbols offers evidence the Neanderthals were not as primitive as previously thought and it is time to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence a comet strike 13,000 years ago may have changed human civilization. A cluster of comet fragments believed to have
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Located in the heart of Baku, Azerbaijan, the Maiden Tower is the city's most mysterious and impressive ancient structure. Being 29.5 meters (97
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have reconstructed the Eastern Mediterranean silver trade, over a period including the traditional dates of the Trojan War, the founding of Rome,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A cache of fossilized shark teeth unearthed in a 2900-year-old site in the City of David in Jerusalem is an ancient puzzle to
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among the fabled objects in Greek mythology, a precious piece of jewelry is known to bring misfortune to all its owners or wearers. This
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The beautiful Golosov Lavine has always been a strange and mysterious place. It is said a puzzling time-warping mist occasionally appears over the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Mississippi report unearthing a rare trove of ancient metal objects that may have been left by the Spaniards when the
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Archaeoastronomy
Conny Waters - AncientPagaes.com - The Hittites studied the night sky with the same interest as any other ancient civilization. As previously reported on Ancient Pages, scientists suggested
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near Berlicum in the north of the province. Berlicum
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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When studying sacred, ancient texts, one should always pay attention because highly significant information can be "hidden between the lines." On other occasions,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Barabar Caves are considered the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India. Mostly dated to the Maurya Empire (322-185 BC), they were carved
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists search for clues to identify a mystery horseman after carved relief was uncovered at Roman Vindolanda, Hadrian’s Wall. A beautifully carved sandstone
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers studied the movement of people at a Bronze Age city Alalakh (Tell Atchana) in present-day southeastern Turkey, during the period from 1600-1200 BC,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The horrible global epidemic of the bubonic plague known as the Black Death struck Europe and Asia from 1347 to 1352 C.E and caused
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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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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working at an excavation site near Järvensuo in southwest Finland have discovered a 4,000-year-old wooden stick shaped like a snake. The sculpture -
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Knowing the weight of a commodity provides an objective way to value goods in the marketplace. But did a self-regulating market even exist
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