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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - To the Vikings, a sword was much more than just a weapon. Sword production was complex and labor-intensive, making them scarce and costly.

AncientPages.com - The location of Alexander the Great’s city has been an unsolved mystery for 2,000 years. Now, archaeologists report they have uncovered the lost city of Alexander the

AncientPages.com - The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the most impressive and mysterious constructions of the ancient world. Many theories have been presented, but the truth is

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - On the Scottish islands of Orkney there are several ancient monumental buildings that have forced historians to rethink their knowledge about ancient Britain. It has long

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made a spectacular find. The lost temple of Artemis, a famous open-air sanctuary of antiquity has been discovered on the Greek island of Euboea. The

AncientPages.com - Many attempts have been made to solve the Easter Island population mystery and we still don’t know how a population of just 1,500-3,000 managed to construct, transport

AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered that ancient Greeks deliberately constructed several of their most sacred temples on sites previously hit by earthquakes. It was believed that raising important buildings

AncientPages.com - According to the New Testament, Saint Peter was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. According to Christian tradition, Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero Augustus Caesar. It

AncientPages.com - The Classic Maya revered their divine rulers and treated them as living souls after death. In northern Guatemala, archaeologists have now unearthed an ancient tomb belonging to

AncientPages.com - On September 11, 1297, the Battle of Stirling Bridge took place near Stirling, at River Forth. It was the first Scottish Freedom War when Andrew Moray

AncientPages.com - About 3,500 years ago, an Egyptian goldsmith in Egypt spent his days producing remarkable jewelry dedicated to the Egyptian Sun God Amon-Re who was the most powerful

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

AncientPages.com - More than 2,000 years ago people in the Amazon forest constructed hundreds of mysterious earthworks, but for what purpose? Some theories have been put forward, but the

AncientPages.com - A prehistoric human skeleton has now been dated to at least 13,000 years old and most likely can be related to a glacial period at the end

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Melchizedek, whose name means "King of Righteousness", is definitely one of the most baffling figures in the Bible. We cannot expand our knowledge about him