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Warriors Archive
Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Ancient historians loved to write about warfare and famous battles. While these millennia-old stories still feed modern imaginations – Homer’s “Iliad” provides the plot for the
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Sparta was famous for being a city-state that valued discipline. The state’s citizens were expected to be loyal and contribute to Sparta’s prosperity. Located
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Civilizations
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Avars' place in history has been marked and yet, it has long remained so enigmatic. These fierce nomadic warriors appeared riding from
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - What makes the Tarascans an intriguing pre-Columbian civilization? The Tarascans, well-known for their outstanding musical and artistic abilities, are first of all, famous for
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Why the Aztecs migrated to the Mexican Valley can be debated, but once they reached the place it didn’t take long before they
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Chamber graves filled with precious artifacts belonging to four Scandinavian warriors have been discovered in Poland. The finding is of great historical importance
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com – Archaeologists, who investigated an ancient cemetery discovered several swords, spears and other artifacts that belonged to the Yotvingians, a long-forgotten ancient warrior culture
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When darkness falls, they rise from burial places and the ocean. They start to march in large groups, and they move until just
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most ancient warriors fought to defend their territories, win a battle, or an entire war. The Hawaiian Koa warriors engaged in combat with
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It was from Scathach that the great Irish hero Cuchulainn learned how to become a mighty warrior. The legendary Martial arts teacher Scathach
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - They moved through the deep, dark, and dense forests quickly and quietly. They could neither be seen nor heard. Trained in various deadly weapons,
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Rafael - AncientPages.com - The name Uesugi Kenshin is well-known in the history of Japanese warriors. He was a daimyo born under the name, Nagao Kagetora. After he was
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - You have heard about these masters of stealth warfare and espionage. If not from history books, then from the myriad of movies that use
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Watets - AncientPages.com - A new type of foot soldier emerged around 800 BC in Greece when the country was still recovering after the fall of Mycenaean
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Several Norse runes mention a group of unknown warriors named Kylfings. According to scholars, the Kylfings may have been members of the Varangian Guard, but who
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - At one time in the distant past, Tyr was a god of war and a sky god. He was concerned with justice and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The samurai were the legendary warriors of old Japan who led noble but violent lives governed by the demands of honor, personal integrity,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the army of the Persian Empire there were many different formations. One of them were the so-called ‘sparabara’ –the shield bearing troops. They
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Not only Vikings had berserkers. The berserkers among Viking warriors had more or less their counterparts in other regions of Europe and outside
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Varangian Guard represented the elite heavy infantry regiment of the Roman ('Byzantine') Empire from 988 AD to around 1404 AD. They were Vikings for
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Icelandic Viking warriors known as ‘berserkers’ (in Old Norse: ‘berserkr’) were feared by enemies and even their battle companions. These warriors - half-naked and covered
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Valkyries are essential in poems and stories about legendary hero-warriors in Norse mythology. Riding on horses to battlefields and escorting the souls of dead
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Aztec warriors had a large variety of offensive and defensive weapons. The Aztecs were cruel, but nearly perfect warriors, who used weapons, designed to
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - At the height of their success Vikings covered the British Isles, modern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, North India, China and North America.
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to very ancient poems, Odin's sons, Weldegg, Beldegg, Sigi, Skiold, Sæming, and Yngvi, became kings of Franconia, East Saxony, West Saxony, Sweden, Denmark,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Led by Hattori "the Demon" Hanzo, Shinobi no Mono, the Shadow Warriors of the 16th century were incredible ancient Japanese fighters who became
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - From about 700 to 300 BC one particular group of migratory peoples, identified as Scythians by the Greeks, suddenly appeared on the Eurasian
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The word "berserk" is used to describe the behavior of a person who was acting irrationally in a state of great agitation, unable
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