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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A skeleton lying down with a jorum in his hand and a wine pitcher and bread on the side, is depicted on a

AncientPages.com - Recent discovery of surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Philadelphia in the Central Anatolia, Turkey indicates that the ancient city

AncientPages.com - April 21, 753 BC, is a mythological date when Rome is founded by Romulus, one of the twin brothers. In Roman mythology, Romulus and his twin brother Remus

AncientPages.com - On April 20, 1535, an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as the "Sun Dog" was observed over Stockholm. The painting that depicts the event was named "Weather Sun") (in Swedish: Vädersol)  and

AncientPages.com - Well-preserved human skeletons estimated to be about 4,500-years-old have been unearthed from a graveyard in southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to the archaeological team working in the

AncientPages.com - On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith, to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Sam Adams and John

AncientPages.com - A fragment of the Late Antiquity fortress wall of the Ancient Roman city of Sexaginta Prista (meaning “Port of the Sixty Ships") has been discovered in the Danube

AncientPages.com - The Battle of Rain (also called the Battle of the River Lech or Battle of Lech) was fought on April 15, 1632, during the Thirty Years’ War. The forces involved in this

AncientPages.com - Relics of an ancient six-thousand-year old village in the Sarvabad county in Kurdestan Province have been unearthed by Iranian archaeologists. The ancient village was unearthed in the Sarcham

AncientPages.com - On April 12, 238 AD, Gordian II lost the Battle of Carthage against the forces of Numidia, an ancient Berber kingdom in what is now Algeria

AncientPages.com - On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the most outstanding military leaders in history, abdicated the throne and was banished to

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the Regional Museum of History in the city of Veliko Tarnovo in Northern Bulgaria are hoping to restart the archaeological excavations of a surviving 14-meter

AncientPages.com - An ancient tomb dating back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220), nearly 2,000 years ago, has been found in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region,

AncientPages.com - Silver adornments, which were most probably buried in the fall of 1688 during the so called Chiprovtsi Uprising, the largest rebellion of Bulgarian Catholics against the Ottoman Empire,

AncientPages.com - On April 4, 1581, Francis Drake was knighted after completing his world circumnavigation. Queen Elizabeth herself knighted him. He is documented as the second person in history