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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd -AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we discussed why some scientist suggest the Earth could be hollow. We pointed out that the idea sounds
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Roman ruler Laelianus would have been pleased to hear archaeologists have discovered a coin depicting him. Unfortunately, this is something he could never
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient underwater burial site off the coast of Florida, near the Venice shoreline can reveal valuable information about people who lived in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The purpose of the Quipu has long puzzled scientists. The vast Inca Empire had a sophisticated and organized government, but they had no
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, archaeologists discovered a very well-preserved Bronze Age settlement in Britain. While investigating the site scientists noticed the 3,000-year-old settlement located
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using an ornithological approach, scientists have re-identified the huge birds drawn on the desert plains of Peru as hermits or pelicans. Birds are
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - South African scientists from the University of the Free State have discovered 8,000-year-old carvings, made by Khoi-San people, indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. The rock art
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Hollow Earth theory is as controversial as ever. The idea that our planet could be hollow sounds ridiculous to most people, and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The ancient city of Carchemish (Karkamış), which was in the past, the most important administration center for the Hittite Empire in the region, will
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study shows that before arrival of Europeans, climate change had significant impact on people living in the region of Amazon forest,
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Featured Stories
David Tee - AncientPages.com - The area deemed today as Iran has had a long history. The Medes first ruled the nation in the 9th century BC. However, the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in eastern North Carolina were surprised when they came across an ancient tavern along with several mysterious tools that were buried beneath
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some 9,000 years ago, residents of Çatalhöyük (on modern Turkey,) one of the world's first large farming communities experienced overcrowding, infectious diseases, violence
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African Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting, and little-known stories told by African tribes. Africa was once home to several powerful civilizations, but sadly today, the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Rome, Italy have unearthed a magnificent 2,000-year-old marble head of God Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, the ancient god of wine
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stonehenge in England is world famous and a major tourist attraction. It is widely believed that the stone circle was constructed in the
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Since the beginning of time, humans have looked at the sky wondering if someone from above was keeping a watching eye on us.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Egyptian ministries of antiquities and foreign affairs have called on Christie's auction house and UNESCO to stop the sale of a quartzite head
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Maine have reason to feel excited. They have just excavated what is believed to be the oldest dugout canoe ever found
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - During the Iron Age around 300 AD something extraordinary was initiated in Levänluhta area in Isokyrö, SW Finland. People were buried in a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Adelasius Ebalchus lived in what is now northern Switzerland some 1,300 years ago, centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Who was
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we talked about the ancient history of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. We discussed what this ancient
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An underground city partly submerged underwater and estimated to be around 5,000 years old was discovered by municipality crews trying to determine the
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - What were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and what did they look like? Did they really exist and for what purpose were they
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Long before farming appeared, humans were cooking, roasting and eating plant roots and this habit is 120,000 years old, according a new study.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,300-year-old tablet with the ancient Greek alphabet was accidentally discovered inside the garden wall of a school in Turkey's southwestern Mugla province
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study suggests that northern and central Asia’s wetter climates may have allowed Homo sapiens to expand across the deserts of Central Asia by 50-30,000
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series, we discussed ancient historical mass disappearances that have long puzzled historians. We will continue and explore more
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The causes of disappearance of the Neanderthals, the only human population living in Europe before the arrival of Homo sapiens, have been debated for
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