Manuscript Archive
Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most have heard of the great English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), but his sister Joan is much less known, but this
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A never-before seen manuscript by Scottish-based artisan Esther Inglis, dating back to the early 1600s, was unveiled at The University of St Andrews
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. Raucous texts—mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A series of exciting inscriptions, almost invisible to the naked eye, have been discovered in the margins of an important eighth-century manuscript in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare English illuminated medieval prayer roll, believed to be among only a few dozen still in existence worldwide, has been analyzed in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Medieval manuscript fragments discovered in Bristol that tell part of the story of Merlin the magician, one of the most famous characters from
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Undeciphered for more than 260 years, the Copiale cipher has baffled experts trying to unravel the secrets behind this puzzling manuscript. The 18th-century
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPage.com - The execution of the Cathars is a sad story in European history. From the 11th to the beginning of the 14th century, Catharism
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are ancient Mesoamerican cultures we still know very little about. The Toltecs belong to one of the most mysterious ancient races in America
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Scientists continue to examine the interesting Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered in West Jordan in 1947, near the ruins of Qumran. Infrared imaging has revealed a
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Hidden from the outside world for thousands of years, the box was safely guarded by men who were keepers of sacred ancient wisdom. On
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News
AncientPages.com - It has long been debated how the great English writer William Shakespeare came up with ideas and unique phrases for his great plays. Did Shakespeare have a source
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Precious ancient manuscript M.910 was originally recorded by Coptic monks in Egypt roughly 1,500 years ago. Today, the badly managed manuscript is kept at the Morgan Library
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most important monuments of Irish Christianity and works of Irish-Saxon art is the famous Book of Kells (now in the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 1925 Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, one of Britain’s greatest explorers vanished in Brazil. Colonel Fawcett who was searching for the mysterious ancient Lost
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya created many books, but almost all of them were burned by conquistadors and clergy. One of those who significantly contributed
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Canterbury Roll is a magnificent and unique ancient manuscript that traces the history of England from its mythical origins until the Wars of the Roses.
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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
AncientPages.com - We are all familiar with the symbol “0”, but when and where zero first appeared is far from certain. There is evidence of counting that stretches back
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - More than 800 years ago, a teenaged soldier named Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man. He spent the next 34 years repenting alone in an Italian cave
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - On December 26, 1665, the Codex Cospi (or Codex Bologna) was given as a Christmas gift to the Italian nobleman Ferdinando Cospi (1606 -
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