Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Followers of the Greek party god Dionysus (in Greek: Dionysos) certainly knew how to enjoy themselves. The god Dionysus was very popular in ancient Greece and associated with wine, music, ritual madness, ecstasy, and theater. Left:
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Could man be of a greater antiquity than previously thought? Did the inhabitants of Britain, Germany and France once in the remote past share the land together with huge extinct animals? Fossils of ancient, long-vanished beasts
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – This golden helmet is over two millennia old and was accidentally found in Poiana Cotofenesti (now called Poiana Varbilau), southern Romania, in 1929 (or in the spring of 1928). The Golden Helmet of Coțofenești. A Geto-Dacian
AncientPages.com – Florida was something of a horse paradise 5 million years ago, providing everything horses could want in a relatively small area, a new geochemical analysis of fossils suggests. The world’s first horses originated in North America, lived there for 55
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Little Foot was present on Earth about 3.67 million years ago. After examining the skeleton and brain of Little Foot, scientists say that they have come across an entirely new species of human ancestor. Ancient Pages
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In the Land of the Pyramids, there are still many undiscovered treasures that can bring light on the history of ancient Egypt. We keep learning from Egyptologists and archaeologists about unearthed ancient mummies, extraordinary artifacts and
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Some of the stories we discuss in this article can be regarded as either pure myths or genuine sightings of advanced ancient technology. How to interpret these unusual prehistoric accounts is up to you. Those who
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Not everything that our eyes see can be easily explained. That is something several researchers had to admit while investigating an unusual phenomenon in Ohio. Once a long time ago, a family decided to leave behind
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – On December 26, 1900, something strange and unexplained happened on the largest of the Flannan Islands, Eilean Mor, Scotland. Three lighthouse keepers disappeared into the night, never to be seen again. Their mysterious disappearance still baffles
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – On every continent we find stories about highly advanced ancient beings who came from the skies and gave people knowledge in a variety of subjects. These superior, highly intelligent beings possessed incredible weapons, ‘magical’ objects, traversed
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Helice (Helike), an ancient city of Achaea, Northern Peloponnesus, long stood as a legendary lost metropolis. It was once located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Corinth, about 93 miles west of Athens.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An amateur archaeologist in Denmark has discovered an extraordinary relic. While searching a field at Hodde, near Varde in western Jutland, he found an ancient seal stamp that once belonged to Elisabeth Buggesdatter. It’s a remarkable
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – When angry with someone, we often say, “Go to hell.” Whether we believe in the existence of hell is unimportant. We have been taught that hell is not a place any of us would gladly
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An extremely rare, 5 cm long copper alloy human figurine, most likely made in the 2nd Century AD has been unearthed in archaeological diggings at the National Trust’s Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire, rural settlement on the
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Investigating the secrets of the Vatican is always difficult because the lack of reliable information. The Vatican’s history stretches back centuries and the church has been accused of so much that distinguishing between facts, fiction, rumors and deliberate
AncientPages.com – Myths and legends of dragons were common among ancient people. Today we can find many places that have been named in memory of dragons that were once believed to have been encountered by our ancestors. Ancient people had a
