AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered that ancient Greeks deliberately constructed several of their most sacred temples on sites previously hit by earthquakes. It was believed that raising important buildings over areas affected by seismic activity awarded them special cultural status and
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 examined from a century-old Carrowkeel Neolithic passage tomb in Co. Sligo reveal
AncientPages.com – According to the New Testament, Saint Peter was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. According to Christian tradition, Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero Augustus Caesar. It is traditionally held that he was crucified upside down at his own request, since
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 five millennia in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia. The concept of zero, initially banned
AncientPages.com – The Classic Maya revered their divine rulers and treated them as living souls after death. In northern Guatemala, archaeologists have now unearthed an ancient tomb belonging to a Maya ruler. Located at El Perú-Waka, about 40 miles west of
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Loki is an elusive figure in countless Northern myths, but he is also the most fascinating of all the members of the Norse pantheon. Listed among the Aesir as a constant companion to the gods,
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 many previously thought. Not long ago, researchers suggested that the Maya may
AncientPages.com – On September 11, 1297, the Battle of Stirling Bridge took place near Stirling, at River Forth. It was the first Scottish Freedom War when Andrew Moray and William Wallace’s forces met John de Warenne, the 7th earl of
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 shipwreck is the more than 400-year-old warship ‘Scepter’, built in 1615 as
AncientPages.com – About 3,500 years ago, an Egyptian goldsmith in Egypt spent his days producing remarkable jewelry dedicated to the Egyptian Sun God Amon-Re who was the most powerful deity at the time. The royal goldsmith’s name was Amenemhat and he
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 and it seems now we have the answer to this question. Archaeologists
AncientPages.com – More than 800 years ago, a teenaged soldier named Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man. He spent the next 34 years repenting alone in an Italian cave atoning for his crime, burning his face with a hot iron and
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 by a tsunami 1,600 years ago and was partially lost beneath the
AncientPages.com – More than 2,000 years ago people in the Amazon forest constructed hundreds of mysterious earthworks, but for what purpose? Some theories have been put forward, but the truth is the ancient earthworks remain an unsolved puzzle. The earthwork ditches
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 old from Trachilos in western Crete, have an unmistakably human-like form. This
AncientPages.com – A prehistoric human skeleton has now been dated to at least 13,000 years old and most likely can be related to a glacial period at the end of the most recent ice age, the late Pleistocene. A German-Mexican research
