Ancient Civilizations
Explore mysterious ancient civilizations and their legacy. We examine their buildings, artifacts, religion, rituals, scientific achievements, customs and traditions, inventions, government, geography, wars, cities, empires and much more.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Saraswati River is not a legend. It really existed when great civilizations flourished in the northwestern part of India. It has been richly
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AncientPages.com - An ancient observatory from the 3rd or 4th century has been discovered by a team of researchers during excavations carried out in the south of Iran. Traces of the
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AncientPages.com - An 8-meter quartzite colossus possibly depicting Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, has been unearthed by German-Egyptian archaeological team. Excavations at the ancient archaeological
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AncientPages.com - A team of German archaeologists has discovered parts from 66 statues of the lion-headed Pharaonic goddess Sekhmet. The archaeologists unearthed the statues during excavations in the area
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AncientPages.com - Two 1.82-meter-high statues have been found in the grotto in Shimenshan area in the Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing, China. Shimenshan Rock Carvings are located to the
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AncientPages.com - An underground cache of bronze wares has been unearthed from a tomb site dating back 2,300 years in the city of Chengdu, a large city located n Sichuan,
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AncientPages.com - Using a combination of radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, researchers show that a maternal dynasty ruled Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, for more than 300
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered16 engraved limestone blocks, created 38,000 years ago, during an expedition in France's Vézère Valley, Vézère Valley was used as a shelter by the Aurignacian
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AncientPages.com - A team of international archaeologists has just begun exploring a mysterious ancient staircase in the Phnom Kulen in Siem Reap province, near the Angkor World Heritage Site in
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AncientPages.com - It was long believed that Egyptian temple culture was declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Egyptologist Carina van
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AncientPages.com - Two inscription of great historical importance have been found in the Western Galilee town of Peqi’in in Israel. The 1,800-year-old inscriptions were found in in the courtyard
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Egypt are busy with restoration of a statue of the celebrated 19th dynasty pharaoh, Ramesses II. Colossus of Ramesses II (Ramsess II) once decorated the façade
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AncientPages.com - There are numerous Hindu temples dedicated to the Supreme Being, Lord Shiva, Hindu god known by many names and titles and one of the three main gods
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AncientPagaes.com - Israeli and French team of archaeologists begin excavations of an ancient and unexplored Biblical site, where the famous Ark of the Covenant was kept for two
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AncientPages.com - More than 100 plant seeds dating back 2,000 years have been unearthed from an ancient tomb in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The seeds, which are
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AncientPages.com - Some several thousand years ago, there once flourished a great civilization in the Indus Valley. The largest of the four ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and
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AncientPages.com - For generations, Okinawans potters produced fascinating pottery, of which fragments are still being unearthed. A fragment of pottery, which is believed to have come from earthenware, was
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AncientPages.com - A few months ago, a sarcophagus at an olive grove, belonging to the Late Antiquity period, was discovered in Turkey's western Bursa province. Archeologists have studied of
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AncientPages.com - Our ancestors were aware of how dangerous natural calamities can be. The Harappan civilization that inhabited the Indus Valley several thousand years ago was familiar with ancient
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the great personalities of the ancient world is Hammurabi. Proud of his military achievements as a ruler of Babylon, he wanted
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AncientPages.com - Was there once an ancient, unknown Atacama Desert civilization? Atacama Today, Chile’s Atacama Desert, located between two mountain ranges, which prevent water from reaching its valleys and
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AncientPages.com - It has already been called a finding that could re-write ancient Maya history. A quite spectacular discovery of two untouched ancient tombs found beneath Maya pyramids can unravel
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Siberia have found a grave containing a 4,500-year-old skeleton of a noblewoman. This intriguing ancient skeleton belongs to a woman who was a member
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AncientPages.com - According to a new study of the Dead Sea Scrolls Noah’s Ark was pyramid-shaped. This is assumption is based on a new interpretation of the Dead Sea
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient stone circle known as 'Stones of the Sun (In Irish, 'Lios na Grainsi') was built around 2000 BC by the people
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AncientPages.com - For the first time, after the sustained efforts of two generations, Chinese archaeologists have discovered ruins of pottery marked with the characters for "Yueyang" in a location
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AncientPages.com - Tom Garrison was four hours away from camp — headed into the city down a bumpy jungle road to get treated for poisonwood exposure — when he got
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AncientPages.com - The Asclepieion also known as the Asclepius sanctuary is located at the southern slope of Acropolis but it was unknown until a few years ago. Asclepius was the god of medicine and
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists discovered two niches with six figures cut in rock inside two New Kingdom chapels in the Gebel Al-Silsila area, Egypt’s largest sandstone quarries located to the
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