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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jiaohe (in Chinese: 'where two rivers meet') is considered one of China's oldest, largest, and best-preserved earthen cities. It was built 2,300 years
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists has uncovered a 3,400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city once located on the Tigris River. The settlement emerged
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Xunantunich, a major ceremonial center of the Maya Civilization, is an ancient Maya archaeological site atop a ridge above the Mopan River, about
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Hatra called the "City of the Sun" (139 BC - 226 AD) stands in the flat area of southern Jazirah, on the west
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the ancient city of Natchez, Mississippi we encounter the Emerald Mound. It is the second-largest temple mound in North America and it
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Metroplis and its treasures has been brought to the light of day thanks to the continuous excavations in the ancient city of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - It’s a great discovery that is of major interest for those who are passionate about ancient history and archaeology. Scientists report 4,000-year-old Assyrian clay tablets reveal locations
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AncientPages.com - Excavating the ancient city of Sogmatar, Turkey, archaeologists unearthed a 5,000-year-old toy chariot buried along with a child. Ancient City of Sogmatar (from the word "Matar" in
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - As Ancient Pages previously reported, Polish archaeologists announced in June 2017, they had found an ancient city in northern Mesopotamia – present day Iraqi Kurdistan, but the name
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient city of Pisac in the Sacred Valley, Peru is not as famous as Machu Picchu, but it’s a remarkable place that is not
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Famous by the Greco-Trojan War that is the subject of Homer's epic poem The Iliad, the ancient city of Troy remains one of the most important and
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - More than 200 previously unknown remains of villages and an ancient city have been discovered by Polish archaeologists excavating in northern Mesopotamia - present day Iraqi Kurdistan. Most
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The oldest known written document in Anatolia has been found during excavations in Acemhöyük Mound in the Central Anatolian province of Aksaray. It is an area of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mosaics unearthed during excavation works in the ancient city of Perge in the southern province of Antalya are known as “Turkey’s second Zeugma” for
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Magnificent ancient city of Petra was first inhabited by a Semitic-speaking tribe of the Edomites, mentioned in the Bible as descendants of Esau, the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 1,700-year-old Roman-era underground Mithras temple has been discovered at the at the Zerzevan Castle located in Diyarbakır's Çınar district of Turkey. Earlier, archaeologists also unearthed an underground church, an
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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - According to Genesis, Abraham built an altar between Bethel and Ai. Where are the ancient ruins of the Biblical city of Ai? How and
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pandavleni Caves are considered to be a part of Hinayana (in Sanskrit, means the "Smaller Vehicle") Buddhist Caves which is more than 1200 years
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Teotihuacán is an ancient site where the circumstances of its destruction are not entirely clear. The people who created it are completely unknown, and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to the Amarna Letters and the annals of Thutmose III, Byblos ('Papyrus' in Greek) was dependent and subservient to Egypt for hundreds of years.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Recent discovery of surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Philadelphia in the Central Anatolia, Turkey indicates that the ancient city
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Longvek was the capital city in ancient Cambodia, for almost 200 years following the sack of Angkor by the Siamese in 1431. The city's records tell
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent fieldwork at the ancient city of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete finds that during the early Iron Age (1100 to 600
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - In Greece, underwater excavations of Lechaion, ancient Corinth’s partially submerged harbour town, reveal the infrastructure of more than a thousand years of flourishing maritime trade. Researchers
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Fifteen rock paintings discovered in a village close to the ancient city of Ani in the eastern province of Kars will play a significant role for the
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once the Burnt City, (original name: Shahr-e-Sookhteh) was the largest prehistoric city of Iran. Its inhabitants were of unknown origin. A true mystery surrounds
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