Vatican Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - "What an artist dies with me!" The Roman Emperor Nero (AD 54 until AD 68) reportedly uttered those famous last words before his
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Vatican is the smallest state in Europe, but it has many interesting attractions to offer. If you visit the beautiful Sistine Chapel,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Why would someone deliberately remove all evidence of a long-gone civilization? Throughout history, traces of mysterious dead civilizations have been erased regularly. Historical
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We are today so used to the name that we hardly think about how the Vatican got its name. The truth is that
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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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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you are a Queen or King, you’re expected to set a good example for the rest of the population, something many historical rulers
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Investigating the secrets of the Vatican is always difficult because the lack of reliable information. The Vatican's history stretches back centuries and the church has been
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - These ancient skeletons are said to be remains of Catholic martyrs dug up from Roman catacombs. The bodies are covered in priceless ancient treasure
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Centuries ago, one of the most important Christian relics disappeared mysteriously from the Vatican. Was this unusual relic destroyed or deliberately hidden? Has this
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Vatican is just as curious about extraterrestrial life as most us are. A majority of people today are convinced humans are not
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There is a deeper meaning behind the Vatican City State’s flag. The flag is made up of two fields, vertically divided in half: the
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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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News
AncientPages.com - On January 22, 1506, a group of 150 Swiss mercenaries led by their Captain Kaspar of Silenen in the Canton of Uri entered the Vatican for
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News
AncientPages.com - On November 1, 1512, the Sistine Chapel's beautiful ceiling was shown to the public for the first time. The ceiling was commissioned by Pope Julius II and
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