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AncientPages.com - Michelangelo (1475 – 1564), painter, sculptor and one of the greatest artists of all time, often secretly inserted pagan symbols into his works of art. Many of them were

AncientPages.com - The oldest aqueduct in Rome has been discovered during constructions works in the center of the city. The aqueduct dates back to the 3rd century BC and

AncientPages.com - Queens College of the University of New York has received a gift in form of 85 beautiful Coptic textiles that will be part of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. The textiles that

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists continue to analyze the old remains of the Danish medieval warship “Gribshunden” (Griffin-Hound), discovered at the bottom of the sea off the Swedish coast. In 2016, a group

AncientPages.com - On May 3, 752, Bird Jaguar IV (also called Yaxun B’alam IV) was a Mayan king from Yaxchilan (modern-day Chiapas), located on the banks of the river Usumacinta,

AncientPages.com - During diggings at ancient site of Tiel in Gelderland,i n the central eastern part of the Netherlands, archaeologists have discovered  valuable Roman treasures,  including a statue of the

AncientPages.com -  On April 1, 1826, American Samuel Morey patented his "Gas or Vapor Engine" — the first internal combustion engine patent in the United States. Morey was the son of

AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from the Archaeological Survey of India, discovered about 25 caves located in the north-west of the forest, on the outskirts of Odisha’s capital.

AncientPages.com - Giant ancient palace unearthed in Mexico was the ruler's home and the seat of government. Archaeologists say it is the oldest ever palace excavated in Mexico's Valley of

AncientPages.com - "Many texts from ancient Mesopotamia contain colourful descriptions of wars and other physical atrocities, such as mass beheadings or stripping the skin. Meanwhile, bioarchaeology research paints the

AncientPages.com - On March 29, 1974, local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, discovered the Terracotta Army buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the

AncientPages.com - An intact tomb has been discovered in the necropolis located at Qubbet el-Hawa, West Aswan by excavating archaeologists of the Spanish Archaeological Mission. The tomb belongs to

AncientPages.com - On March 28, 845, Paris was attacked by Vikings under the leadership of Ragnar Lodbrok, nicknamed 'Hairy Breeches,' referring to the animal-skin trousers that he wore. Ragnar, one of

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Native Americans have wonderful legends of a powerful and magnificent Thunderbird that the Gods sent to protect humans from evil. When this huge,

AncientPages.com - During underwater excavations near the Ak-Burun Cape, a place related to the Crimean bridge construction site, divers discovered a part of a unique,  ancient Greek terra-cotta statue,