Poland Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient village of Zalipie, located not far from Krakow in Poland is probably the most colorful village in Europe. The ancient tradition

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  Scientists are investigating an ancient burial of a woman in Bagicz, Poland. The women fell off a cliff and was later put to rest

David Tee - AncientPages.com - The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem (commonly known as the Teutonic Order) was founded in 1192

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It was said that she had a nasty habit of interfering with everything. She was outspoken, full of energy, and hot-tempered. Bona Sforza

A. Sutherland - Ancient Pages.com - The Polish astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 -1543) made crucial observations in Rome in 1500. Copernicus's heliocentric worldview was revolutionary and ended the old

AncientPages.com - About 60 years ago, archaeologists excavating in Czermno, Poland discovered a unique spindle whorl. At the time scientists did not notice the object was covered with seemingly

AncientPages.com - It took months to write a book during the Middle Ages. Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment. Paper wasn't available in Europe until

AncientPages.com - Polish archaeologists have renewed excavations of a unique 5,000-year-old megalithic tomb with the remains of more than 20 persons, located at Kierzków (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship), in north-central Poland. The

AncientPages.com - These unusual 2,500-year-old face urns represent one of the most fascinating categories of prehistoric artifacts unearthed in Poland. They were discovered in Pomerania, a region on the southern shore

AncientPages.com - More than thousand years ago, superstitious inhabitants placed a clay pot with a sour soup, under the floor of their hut. It was their sacrificial offering to

AncientPages.com - Two interesting anomalies have been discovered in Rapa, Poland’s most famous pyramid. Identical to the Egyptian pyramids, but much younger, the pyramid is located in the small

AncientPages.com - On August 1, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising began and was part of a national plan, the so-called Operation Tempest (referred to in English as Operation Storm, with several other

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Winged Hussars were one of the most effective military forces in the world. They lost only a fraction of their battles and

AncientPages.com - Skeletal and crematory graves from the mid-1st millennium, and the remains of representatives of megafauna, living in the present Polish territory during the last Ice Age,