All Ancient Pages articles related to North America in the sections of archaeology, history, civilizations, places, myths and legends, Biblical mysteries, ancient history facts, featured stories, ancient symbols and Vikings.
North America Archive
Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Thousands of ancient ceremonial pipes have been found in North America. What makes the spider pipes unearthed in Tennessee unusual is not only their
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Spruce Hill is not only one of the most important archaeological sites in North America, but also of the greatest ancient mysteries in Ohio.
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When scientists examined a mysterious ancient jade artifact it quickly became clear that the object didn’t match anything that anyone knew about jadeite jade.
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Vikings were masters of the oceans. With help of their remarkable longships, they could reach distant land and did reach North America, but were
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The original purpose of ancient artifacts known as cog stones is not entirely clear. These curious artifacts have been found throughout the Southern California
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An 11,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Alaska raises new questions about who inhabited North America in the distant past. Examination of the skeleton shows
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Depictions of the mysterious giant Piasa bird can be found on a limestone bluff overlooking the Mississippi. Native American legends tell this creature
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Cherokee recall a white-skinned race that lived on their lands before they arrived. This group of very unusual beings was known as the
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Zuni Indians in New Mexico are unlike any other Native American tribe. Not only is their language, religion, and blood type surprisingly
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most agree today that Christopher Columbus was not the first person to discover America. Who exactly discovered America and when is still a subject
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the Museum of the Seminary of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada there are two very interesting stones that tell an intriguing story about North
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If we assume that men of giant stature once walked on this planet, then we should find some of their skeletons. There are those
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In New England, we find about 800 ancient stone chambers of different sizes and shapes. Who built them and why is a subject that
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did the Phoenicians discover America by mistake? The Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) wrote an intriguing account of how the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Native Americans of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, and Arapaho have a rich oral tradition of a race of tiny people, commonly known as
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast have a very complex kinship structure, demonstrated in many carvings on totem poles. A Gitxsan pole (left)
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Located in northeast Louisiana, North America, about 25 miles from Lake Providence, is a giant C-shaped, 3,500-year-old earthwork known as Poverty Point, a
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Coyote, the trickster-god, is a well-known figure in myths and legends of Indigenous peoples of North America. Coyote, a mischievous, cunning, and destructive
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - In Wyoming's Bighorn Basin there are hundreds of remarkable ancient petroglyphs that were carved thousands of years ago by prehistoric people who lived in the region. In this
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A new study of the DNA reveals that the indigenous groups living today in the region of southern Alaska, are descendants of the first humans who came
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - "There are stories and stories...There are the songs, also, that are taught. Some are whimsical. Some are very intense. Some are documentary. Everything
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Austrian J.F Blumrich - a friend of the White Bear, an old and wise member of the Hopi Tribal Council - documented
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncentPages.com - Mountains play an important role in the beliefs of the Pueblo Indians. Ancient towers and stone circles are also considered sacred. Native Americans
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News
AncientPages.com - Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence on March 9, 1451. He was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer. He played a prominent role in exploring
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the most mysterious artifacts we encounter in North America is the puzzling Waubansee Stone. The three-foot-high, 3,000-pound boulder of granite has a
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As we continue to explore the ancient mysteries of North America, we come across a very puzzling discovery made in a cave in
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News
AncientPages.com - During the Revolutionary War (1775-83), also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence, the Colonists often had to bluff their way
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Our history is full of accounts of horrible battles, bloodthirsty warriors, ruthless kings, and queens seeking more power and territory. The ancient people who
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News
AncientPages.com - On October 14, 1644, William Penn, English philosopher and founder of Pennsylvania, was born. When Penn was 22 years old, he joined the Religious Society of Friends
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many ancient mysteries surround the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego, an island near the southern tip of South America. The Yaghan established
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In some myths of the Algonquian tribes of North America, there is a mythical creature or spirit – Wendigo - that takes different forms.
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Civilizations
A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bandelier National Monument is an archaeological area (50 square miles (130 km2) of the Pajarito Plateau, in the Jemez Mountains and 20 miles west of
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Casa Grande Ruins are pre-Columbian ruins in south-central Arizona, U.S., in the Gila River valley just north of Coolidge. Discovered in 1694 by Jesuit
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Native American Sun Dance is an important religious ceremony of the Plains Indians of North America. The tribes of the Great Plains
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Florida is once again revealing more of its ancient secrets. Archaeologists have discovered 14,500 year-old artifacts in an ancient sinkhole in Florida. The finding could re-write history
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Calusa, known as the Shell Indians lived on the sandy shores of the southwest coast of Florida. Calusa means "fierce people," and they were war-like people.
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - First casino in America did not appear in Las Vegas, but in a cave in Utah. Archaeological discoveries reveal that our ancestors played with sticks, hoops, dice
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News
AncientPages.com - The Vikings were accomplished navigators, artisans, traders and story tellers, but their greatest triumph was the ship they built. Draken Harald, the largest Viking ship built in
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists may have discovered the second Viking site ever found in North America. It’s a truly significant historical find that offers tantalizing evidence of
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Have you ever wondered how North America got its name? In ancient times, America was visited by many foreigners such as the Vikings and of course Christopher
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists of the University of West Florida recently identified the archaeological site of the Luna settlement – the first multi-year European settlement in the
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Berkeley walls remain an ancient unsolved enigma. Often referred to as the “Great Wall Of California”, it still remains unknown who
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