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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Armenians, historically residing in the Armenian highlands of Western Asia, were traditionally thought to be descendants of Phrygian settlers from the Balkans. This
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Queen Nitocris of ancient Egypt's Sixth Dynasty remains shrouded in mystery. Historians cannot agree whether Nitocris was a historical person or a mythical
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Multiple burials of possible women warriors have been unearthed in sites associated with the Scythians, Sauromatians (a tribe nation ruled by women), and Sarmatians.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Graeco-Roman tradition, the Echidna is a gigantic half-woman and half-snake hybrid creature. As a tall, full of charm, and beautiful woman from
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Arimaspians were a tribe of ordinary human-sized horsemen with only one eye in the middle of their forehead. Based on ancient records,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In ancient Greece, women had limited rights, and they were considered less valuable than men. Greek Queen Artemisia I of Caria was luckier
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - It was Herodotus who provided most of the information we have today about King Leonidas. According to the first Greek historian, King Leonidas descended
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When ancient Greek historian Herodotus (484–c. 425 BC) visited Egypt, he was shocked to see how women behaved. Unlike women in ancient Greece, Egyptian
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Medicine has a long history in the Middle and Near East. The earliest known medical records go back to the ancient Mesopotamia and begin
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - History of powerful gigantic shafts of polished granite – known as obelisk – is shrouded in mystery. The obelisk is a monolithic, four-sided piece
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the most beautiful and mysterious ancient places in Bulgaria is the Thracian city of Perperikon. Located in the Eastern Rhodope range, about 15
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The lost labyrinth, full of hieroglyphs sculpted for eternity in its endless stone walls, is believed to contain all knowledge of ancient Egypt.
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