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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The 'Valley of Thracian Kings' is an extraordinary place with numerous burial mounds (tumuli) containing the Thracian rulers' and high aristocrats' tombs and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is an intriguing ancient tale about a mysterious subterranean realm involving a European King who stumbled upon a peculiar character while resting
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist in Denmark has made an intriguing archaeological find. While being out on a rainy day and searching for anything of
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Biblical Mysteries
David Tee - AncientPages.com - Gezer is mentioned in 5 books of the Bible. Its importance was not lost on the biblical writers as the city once had a
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An enigmatic sculpture of a king’s head dating back nearly 3,000 years is for now a great enigma to solve for archaeologists, who do not know whose
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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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Celtic Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Celtic tradition describes the Fomorians as terrifying giant creatures, horribly deformed and often mistaken for demons. It is said that this race of
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Historical Figures
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient Babylon was home to some powerful dynasties and rulers. Hammurabi. Image credit: Windu1789 - CC BY-SA 4.0 One of them was Hammurabi,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The remains of a 13th Dynasty pyramid have been unearthed by an Egyptian archaeological mission excavating in an area to the north of King Snefru's Bent Pyramid
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Modern city Abu Shahrain holds traces of one of the earliest and most sacred cities of the Sumerians – Eridu (E.RI.DU – ‘Home in
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sanxingdui are ruins of an ancient Chinese city with traces of a previously unknown culture dated to Bronze Age. The ruins are located
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News
AncientPages.com - On March 2, 537, during the Gothic War, the First Siege of Rome began and lasted for a year and nine days, from March 2, 537,
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AncientPages.com - On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. It happened one day after the king was
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AncientPages.com - On January 15, 1929, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia. King was twentieth-century America’s most compelling civil rights leader. After entering Morehouse College
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AncientPages.com - On January 10, 1645, William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was executed at Tower Hill in London, England. Laud (1573 – 11645) was the Archbishop of Canterbury
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In “Sumerian Art”, R.D. Barnett mentions that a Foundation Tablet with the inscription: “Aanepada king of Ur, son of Mesannepada (Mes-ane-pada), has built a
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Just as in ancient Egypt, music played a very important role in Assyria and Babylonia. While the Egyptians believed that music was the voice
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News
AncientPages.com - On December 6, 1214, King Alexander II was crowned at Scone. Scone is a village or a suburb of Perth and Kinross in the center of Scotland.
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - 'Tlatoani' (literally means 'speaker' or "king" in English), was an official to whom all household heads owed allegiance, respect, and tax obligations. 'Tlatoani' had an important role
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Throughout history, we have seen and heard about a great number of insane rulers. Some of them have been bloodthirsty tyrants, while others
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found new evidence that suggests date of origin of Tel Al-Dafna site, located at the Al-Qantara West area in Ismailiya, 11 kilometres west of the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Harald Bluetooth was the younger son of Gorm the Old and Queen Thyra. Harald Bluetooth, fresco from the 1500s in Roskilde Cathedral, Zealand,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The epic poem, The Iliad, was written by Homer sometime in the 8th century BC. It recounts some of the most important events of
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