A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In Norse mythology, giant Mimir usually appears in the company of Odin, the most powerful and wisest of the gods. The giant Mimir, however, can easily compete with Odin because he – like the Norns – possesses the wisdom
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Today, two ancient scientists, Eratosthenes Of Cyrene and Posidonius of Rhodes are famous for their attempts to calculate the circumference of the Earth. As previously mentioned on Ancient Pages, these two ancient scholars did a very good
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Aesir were warlike gods who lived in total separation from the Vanir, the gods of fertility. The Aesir lived in Asgard, and the Vanir, who existed long before the first Aesir gods appeared, lived
AncientPages.com – The discovery of Czarist officer’s corpse in Turkey has led to a dispute between Russia and Poland. Both countries claim the body and Turkey is busy trying to solve the issue without creating a problem between the two countries.
AncientPages.com – There seems to be no ending to the amount of Nazca geoglyphs. As many as 50 giants figures have been unearthed by drones, Peruvian archaeologists report. Stretching across nearly 200 square miles of high arid plateau the Nazca
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – If you look through the Irish mist, you might catch a glimpse of the enigmatic Celtic Otherworld. Some ancient legends say this beautiful, mystery-shrouded place coexists with our own reality, like a parallel, invisible world. Other
AncientPages.com – Egyptian coffins have indeed a long history. The oldest ones are more than 5000 years old and and they originate from the times, the state of the pharaohs was formed. One of the oldest Egyptian coffins at Tell el-Murra
AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists working near the Swiss city of Basel are trying to figure out the purpose of ancient deep shafts built by ancient Romans at Augusta Raurica, an archaeological site located on the Rhine River in northern
AncientPages.com – Remains of a Graeco-Roman temple dated to the Greco-Roman period (332 BC – 395 AD) have been unearthed at the Al-Salam archaeological site, about 50km east of the Siwa Oasis. The discovery was made by an Egyptian team of archaeologists
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Norse creation myth in the Poetic Edda tells how the gods were born and how the earth was created. It is said that there was nothing, only an empty void without any existence at
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In ancient Egypt, where religion was an important part of daily life, everything focused on pleasing the gods. Certain gods, such as Bes and Tawaret, who protected ordinary people in their daily lives, were worshiped privately
AncientPages.com – Researchers have discovered 400-year-old documents that reveal Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th-century lord of Kyusyu, Japan, ordered his people to produce opium for medical purposes. A description of opium imports was found in the historical record from 1628 was a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Mysterious crystal sunstones are mentioned in many Icelandic Sagas. Long considered mythological objects, there is reason to believe that legendary Viking Sunstones did exist and Viking Sagas were more truthful than we realized. A special crystal
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of a 4,000-year-old Sumerian port in Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. It’s a major discovery that could shed more light on the great climate change shock of around 2,200 BC that is presumed to have caused
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the 17th century, Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher, attempted to defy the laws of the universe by inventing the perpetual motion machine (a machine that continues to operate without drawing energy
AncientPages.com – Nicknamed the ‘Robin Hood of the Seas’, legendary English pirate Black Sam operated in the early 18th century. As Ancient Pages reported earlier, in February this year, researchers discovered a shipwreck near Wellfleet, just outside the coast off Cape Cod,
