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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The outstanding military accomplishments of Alexander the Great are well-known to everyone interested in ancient history. Still, few had heard about what happened
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Studies strongly suggest that Indian Civilization emerged in the 8th millennium BC and pre-Harappan cultures, which were thoroughly studied, should be rather called
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Kids will be kids, no matter what country, place or time. Some things are ageless and never go out of fashion. Many modern
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - India has been widely known for its iron and steel since ancient times. The Delhi Iron Pillar is a marvelous example of India's skilled
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Ancient Technology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Is it possible that some of the world's greatest scientific achievements originate from India? Could it be that many of our modern inventions are
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The winged sun disk has been found in many cultures worldwide from very ancient times. As one of the oldest religious and solar symbols,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Kerala in Kutch, Gujarat state in western India excavated a number of skeletal remains from a cemetery-like burial site
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Modern science is catching up with ancient knowledge and we’re slowly rediscovering what our ancestors knew ages ago. Big pharma companies may not always
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The name Mayong may not mean much to those who are unfamiliar with its history, but to people in India it is a special
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Featured Stories
David Tee - AncientPages.com - Genghis Khan is a title, not a name. Genghis Khan was born with the name "Temujin." The name means "blacksmith" or "one who
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - People of ancient India were famous for building outstanding stepwells and their architecture varies by type, location, and age. Early stepwells were made of
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Evidence of the engineering marvel of Indian architecture can be clearly seen in the country's temples. However, it is not only about the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to an ancient legend the Shwedagon Pagoda is 2,500 years old dating back to the lifetime of the Buddha, making it the oldest
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new set of petroglyphs may offer evidence of a lost advanced civilization that existed thousands of years ago. The rock art was found
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Featured Stories
Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Yama is the underworld god who rules hell and judges the dead. A Hindu religious text, the Vishnu Purana, says that Yama is
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Ancient Symbols
David Tee - AncientPages.com - Taken from the Sanskrit language the word mandala means circle. Most users of mandalas define it as being a representation of a perfect universe.
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Churning of the Ocean (Milky Way) is a story that explains how the gods finally defeated the demons and became immortal. It
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Deccan College, India have excavated the ancient capital of Nandivardhan (present day – Nagardhan). The great city was ruled by the Vakataka dynasty during 250-550
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Three chariots dated to Bronze Age” (2000-1800 BC) have been unearthed at Sanauli village some 60 km drive from Delhi, in northern India, reports Outlook India. The
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Over 7,000 stone tools were unearthed in excavations at archaeological site at Attirampakkam, about 60 kilometers from Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What did the Champa civilization know about the Nagas, the Serpent People? An intriguing ancient inscription discovered in the mysterious megalithic city of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report they have discovered a 2,000-year-old rare sarcophagus in a rock-cut cave in India. The stone tomb was found at Viyur village of Kollam, near Koyilandy,
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Archaeoastronomy
A. Sutherland- AncientPages.com - A fascinating ancient rock carving in India depicts two very bright objects visible in the sky. When scientists examined the carving they soon understood
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The history of the number zero goes very far back in time, but no-one knows with certainty when and where people started to
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Scientists are confronted with an intriguing Medieval puzzle. It’s the first time ever such sculptures have been found in India, but who made
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is still much to be learned from our ancestors who were familiar with several types of advanced technologies. Dougong brackets were used a
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sanskrit texts are filled with references to gods and battles they fought in the sky, using powerful Vimanas equipped with the most sophisticated
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Surrounded by forest the mysterious ancient sculptures are not only interesting to look at, but these wonderful and enigmatic reliefs are also of great
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The recently excavated, Harappan site, dubbed by archaeologists as 4MSR, is located about 10 kilometers from Anupgarh town in Rajasthan. Among many fascinating artifacts unearthed by archaeologists from ASI
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Not only Vikings had berserkers. The berserkers among Viking warriors had more or less their counterparts in other regions of Europe and outside
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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Garden of Eden is one of many Biblical mysteries. If the legendary paradise existed, we would all like to know where it was
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - India has been widely known for its iron and steel since ancient times. The Indian state of Telangana, located on the Deccan Plateau, in
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Where did the earliest Indians come from? This subject has been long debated among researchers. The Indian Subcontinent is a great place of languages, cultures and religions:
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among three prominent Tamil dynasties that ruled in Southern India, the Chola Dynasty, which ruled for four hundred years, is considered to be the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There is a wonderful, snow-white horse, in Hindu mythology, which is known as Uchchaihshravas. Uchchaihshravas is considered the best of horses, archetype, and king
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Vahanas are incredible animal vehicles of the Hindu gods and goddesses. From Hindu mythology, we learn that each deity has an animal
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient sacred texts, precious artifacts, archaeological discoveries, myths, and legends open a window to the past. Sometimes ancient stories may seem to be
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Mahabharata there is a very interesting legend about the Kauravas who were 100 sons of the King of Hastinapur, Dhritarashtra, and his wife
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Indus Valley civilization, also called the Harappan civilization was one of the world’s largest and oldest civilization. The Indus Valley people built
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from the Archaeological Survey of India, discovered about 25 caves located in the north-west of the forest, on the outskirts of Odisha’s capital.
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The famous Kailashanatha Temple in Kanchipuram, Tami Nadu India, was built in the 8th century during the reign of a South Indian Pallava Dynasty
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Saraswati River is not a legend. It really existed when great civilizations flourished in the northwestern part of India. It has been richly
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