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AncientPages.com - A cache of religious objects, commonly known as ‘favissa’, is considered to be difficult to date and document. One of such intriguing collections was unearthed in 2014

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Kalevala is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. It's a book full of beautiful stories about heroes, villains, remarkable

AncientPages.com - The science behind metallurgy goes far back in time, but it's uncertain when and where humans invented metal smelting. Researchers now think they have found the answer

AncientPages.com - Ancient people practiced various burial rituals depending on their customs and faith. There is now evidence ancient Irish were involved in dismemberment of bodies. Bones excavated and

AncientPages.com - We are all familiar with the symbol “0”, but when and where zero first appeared is far from certain. There is evidence of counting that stretches back

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya were good astronomers who could record and interpret every aspect of the sky. They watched various celestial bodies and were more skilled astronomers than

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists unearthed a four-century-old ship wreck that used to belong to King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden has been uncovered in central Stockholm. Swedish archaeologists believe the

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, there are many stories about female warriors called shield-maidens. Historians have debated for years whether these powerful women did really exist

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found a massive complex of underwater ruins off the northeastern coast of Tunisia, proving that an ancient Roman city that once stood there was devastated

AncientPages.com - A set of controversial, newly discovered human-like footprints from Crete are now putting theory of human evolution to the test. The footprints are about 5.7 million years

AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians were familiar with sophisticated science and technology, but were all of their inventions really their own? Is it possible people in ancient Egypt produced inherited

AncientPages.com - A 1.9-meter statue of a guard and part of a Medicine Buddha represent some of the finds revealed after 13 days of archaeological excavations conducted in Angkor

AncientPages.com - While chronicling Saint Catherine’s Monastery’s library on the Sinai Peninsula, scientists discovered several scriptures with ancient lost languages. In ancient times monks often wrote copies of the

AncientPages.com - If you are interested in the power of magic, then a huge collection of ancient spells discovered in Germany may interest you. Some of these Abracadabra spells

AncientPages.com - Plimpton 322 is a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablets that has puzzled mathematicians for more than 70 years. The small tablet was discovered in the early 1900s in