Calendar Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - According to expert analysis, the archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, dating back approximately 12,000 years, has yielded evidence of what
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Archaeoastronomy
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stonehenge is an astonishingly complex monument, which attracts attention mostly for its spectacular megalithic circle and "horseshoe," built around 2600 B.C. Over the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Evidence for the earliest known Maya calendar has been found in San Bartolo, Guatemala, by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Archaeoastronomy
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most ancient civilizations studied celestial objects and were skilled astronomers. Countless archaeological examples have provided evidence ancient people were often more advanced than
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Archaeoastronomy
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Without clocks or modern tools, ancient Mexicans watched the sun to maintain a farming calendar that precisely tracked seasons and even adjusted for
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - According to a very controversial theory, our modern calendar is wrong because it misses 297 years. A German calendar skeptic claims he has
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating in Guatemala archaeologists discovered a glyph representing a day called "7 Deer" on mural fragments dating from the third century B.C
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The beauty of stargazing is that so many celestial objects are visible to the naked eye. Ancient people who did not have access
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News
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One should always be careful when interpreting symbols on ancient calendars, but a history researcher says a 2,000-year-old calendar does predict the difficult
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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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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wondered what the current Chinese calendar is called? In ancient China, there were many different calendars. The current Chinese calendar
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the most intriguing and highly controversial theories dealing with ancient history is, without a doubt, the "Phantom Time Hypothesis." The coronation
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Archaeoastronomy
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The magnificent Inca Machu Picchu ruins fascinate people of the modern world. Standing on the highest elevation within the Inca citadel is the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Legends say Numa Pompilius was the second king of Rome, but he was not a warrior king but a statesman and politician. Numa
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Dead Sea Scrolls still remain a great ancient puzzle. Discovered back in 1947 near the ruins of Qumran, Israel. The scrolls contain a large variety of
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - At first glance, these ancient artifacts may look like ordinary bones covered with insignificant dots. That is not the case, however. Closer examination of
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Of course, today we are used to a "week" as a 7-day period, but over the course of history the weeks have been as diverse as the
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News
AncientPages.com - On August 11, 3114 BC, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar began. It was in use by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, especially the Maya. According to Maya theology,
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - The Vikings used a Runic calendar often written on parchment or carved onto staves of wood, bone, or horn. The year was divided into moon phases and the calendar reflected
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