Map Archive
Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The concept of hidden treasures has long captivated the human imagination. In some cases, those who concealed valuable riches may have intentionally left
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists at Flinders University have used sub-surface imaging and aerial surveys to see through floodplains in the Red Lily Lagoon area of West
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Denisovans and the Neanderthals are long gone, but their DNA can be found in certain modern humans. According to researchers, some present-day
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Places
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using an interactive map, you can find out which Indigenous land you live on. The map covers the whole world and was deliberately
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages..com - A thorough scientific examination of a Medieval map may confirm a Welsh myth and offer evidence of the long-lost sunken kingdom Cantre'r Gwaelod.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A once-in-a-lifetime archival discovery reveals that a rare map hiding behind a false identity in Washington D.C. was the work of William Clark,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and
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Archaeoastronomy
Conny Waters - AncientPagaes.com - The Hittites studied the night sky with the same interest as any other ancient civilization. As previously reported on Ancient Pages, scientists suggested
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are currently 574 federally recognized Native American tribes living scattered in different states of the United States. The number of tribes was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The 4,000-year-old piece of rock, called Saint-Bélec Slab has been re-examined and a new analysis shows it may be Europe's oldest 3D map.
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Though it’s today difficult to imagine the Sahara and parts of Egypt not being covered by sand, there is enough scientific evidence this
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Monumental map of Fra Mauro is one of the most beautiful and important works in the history of cartography. The map is believed to
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Tabula Peutingeriana is a huge, six-meter-long parchment scroll depicting the Roman Empire's road network. It is an ancient, illustrated Roman road map and the
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Ancient History Facts
A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This Mexican map is a property plan illustrating the foundation of two towns in the region of Tlaxcala, Mexico. It was created 50 years after
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 1587, Urbano Monte (1544-1613), a little-known cartographer, created an amazing, hand-drawn, 10 feet by 10 feet map. Not only does the map
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The first genetic map of the people of Ireland has been presented by a team of Irish, British and American researchers who analyzed data from 194 Irish
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The map of Madaba is the oldest known and existing geographic floor mosaic map of the Holy Lands in art history. The fragment that
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. Babylonians and Sumerians contributed to some of
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News
AncientPages.com - On April 25, 1507, Martin Waldseemüller (ca. 1470-ca. 1518) was the first to suggest that the newly discovered landmass in the New World should be called America.
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This cuneiform ancient map of the Babylonian world is an archaeological treasure equal to the Rosetta Stone and the code of Hammurabi. It probably
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - "Only since the late 1700s has it been possible to collect & record truly accurate geographic information." (Encarta Encyclopedia: Geography & Maps, History of...)
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Examination of rock carvings in Arizona and New Mexico, has led scientists to the conclusion that "Chinese explorers not only reached the Americas in pre-Columbian times, but
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