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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Italian researchers have coordinated 3D reconstructions of three of the wooden boats found at Fiumicino, which in today's Italy, is famous for the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Yorkshire archaeologists have just announced a discovery of a new prehistoric site located near Stonehenge that could shed some new light on the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have studied a 25,000-year-old burial site that sheds light on early human social practices. The interesting discoveries have been made in Grotte
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Is it possible the relationship between America, Canada, and Europe goes much further back in time than previously thought? By researching the ancient
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Vikings
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Erik the Red was a famous Viking today remembered for colonizing Greenland and being the father of the great Viking explorer Leif Erikson. Erik the Red's
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Nue is a mysterious shape-shifting creature referred to in Japanese literature since ancient times. It is a yokai, a weird, mysterious creature
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A great archaeological find has been reported from Italy. Using advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scientists have discovered an amazing ancient Roman city hidden
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Who was the mysterious woman who spoke a language no-one could understand? What was inside the box she held in her hands? What
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Studies of ancient North American history can be as rewarding a frustrating. Just when we think we have figured out how and when
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Myths and legends of Europe, the Americas, China, Japan, and India describe terrible bloodsuckers that may differ in power and individual characteristics. Still,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered the elusive remains of what appears to be London's oldest theater known as Red Lion. The playhouse is thought to
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We associate all these names – Ragnar Lodbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Bjorn Ironside, Erik the Red, Eric "Bloodaxe" Haraldsson - with courageous and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have once again used LIDAR technology with success. Using light detection and ranging technology scientists have located the world's oldest and largest
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we talked about the origin of the mysterious twins mentioned in ancient myths and legends of our
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the Inca and Aymara mythologies, Supay ('Andean Devil') was both the god of death and a powerful ruler of the Incan underworld
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient people kept the memory of mysterious shining twins alive. Myths, legends, ancient carvings, and prehistoric artifacts reveal these enigmatic beings played an
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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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Egyptian Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Egyptian dream is, alongside the Babylonian dream, one of the most widespread ways of interpreting dreams. The belief that dreams can foretell the
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Places
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among many unsolved mysteries surrounding remarkable prehistoric structures of Armenia, there is a megalithic site of Karahunge or Carahunge ("Karahundj") covered with hundreds of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The most famous garden in Greek mythology was the Garden of the Hesperides. This legendary aromatic place was full of golden apples, which
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In classical Greek mythology, the empusa is depicted as a terrifying female monster. She is described as a demonic, vampiric being with no
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - At first, there was nothing but chaos enveloped in a great egg of silence. Then, Papa (Papatuanuku) - Mother Earth, and Rangi (Ranginui)
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The collection of more than 25,000 fragments of ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls include, among other ancient texts, the oldest
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Cerberus is a famous monster in Greek mythology. Often described as a giant three-headed dog, Cerberus guards the gates of the Greek underworld, ensuring
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Analysis of the material on two Iron Age altars discovered at the entrance to the "holy of holies" of a shrine at Tel
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Greek mythology, Hades was the god of the dead; his counterpart in Roman mythology is Pluto (from Ploutōn – wealthy). According to a passage
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In several of our previous articles we have discussed intriguing ancient rock carvings that do not depict ordinary humans. The interpretation of these
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Thalia Lightbringer - AncientPages.com - The Dagda was an ancient god of the earth, originally an agricultural god. When Christianity became dominant in Ireland, the Dagda became a comical
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Canaanites are mentioned in Biblical texts, but the origin of the term is disputed. In Genesis they are described as descendants of
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