Ancient History Facts
Enjoy our ancient history facts section where you’ll find plenty of amazing and little known facts about the ancient world. We explore a variety of fascinating ancient history facts that you probably are unaware of. The facts include information about ancient civilizations, amazing ancient inventions, prehistoric places, battles, great historical figures and much more.
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AncientPages.com - What was life like for children in ancient Athens? Survival was very difficult for infants born in ancient Athens. The mortality rate was very high so
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AncientPages.com - A merkhet ("instrument of knowing") was an ancient Egyptian timekeeping instrument used for telling time at night. It is an amazing example of ancient technology. The device
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Romans had many days of religious significance and some of these lasted only a few hours, while others – such as the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In ancient times, people believed that left-handed were truly evil individuals. There is evidence of many very ancient tools that have been used
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AncientPages.com - On November 7, 1492, the Ensisheim meteorite was observed to fall in a wheat field outside the walled town of Ensisheim in then Alsace, Further Austria (now
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AncientPages.com - Our ancestors were aware of the importance of oil. The use of oil is a very ancient invention in fact. As early as 2,000 B.C, there were
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AncientPages.com - The oldest preserved door locks we have ever found belong to the ancient Egyptians and date back to at least 2000 B.C. It’s believed, but not proven,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the 1200s Baghdad was a prominent and rich ancient city with a high literacy rate. The House of Wisdom was a huge library in
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AncientPages.com - In 1095, at the town of Clermont in central France Pope Urban II made an official call for a "Holy War". The Pope stated: 'Whoever for devotion
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It might sound odd, but the ancient Egyptians did, in fact, use pillows made of stone. The first people to use pillows lived
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 1675, King Charles II of England issued a proclamation to end the legality of coffeehouses. He banned coffeehouses and forbade people from
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AncientPages.com - Since the ancient times, the Egyptians depended on the Nile’s flood and its regular return for their sustenance. But the flood was unpredictable. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Like many other great ancient civilizations, the Hittites had laws that regulated various aspects of their vast empire. Written somewhere from 1650-1500 BC,
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AncientPages.com - The Thunder Stone is the world’s largest monolith ever to be moved by man. It gained its name from an ancient local legend that thunder split a piece
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C0nny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first known police force was established in 400 BC in Athens, Greece. According to accounts from speech writer in Ancient Greece, Andocides, a
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AncientPages.com - In early European times, most household wares like dishware, jars and barrels were made of dense, orange-colored, economical clay. People used to put their small savings in
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AncientPages.com - Starting in the 1750s, beaches were suddenly filled with so-called bathing machines. These were basically wooden changing booths, with wheels and wooden steps that led inside. During
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Capoeira is an unusual ancient martial art because it resembles more dancing than fighting. Capoeira was originally invented hundreds of years ago in
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AncientPages.com - Today the phrase hip hip hooray is used in many countries as a cheering called out to express praise or approbation toward someone or something. It's not
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AncientPages.com - Ancient Persians were familiar with chemical warfare 2,000 years ago. Researchers who examined an ancient grave filled with Roman soldiers believe they have found oldest archaeological
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Rome’s dictator and general Julius Caesar turned the Roman Republic into the powerful Roman Empire, but he had a lot of enemies.
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AncientPages.com - The Roman garden culture was significantly developed after 60 BC. Roman gardens were influenced by Egyptian, Persian, and Greek gardening techniques. Each area in the garden had
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One would think twice before committing crimes in ancient Egypt. The punishments for breaking the law were severe and, in some cases, fatal.
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This Mexican map is a property plan illustrating the foundation of two towns in the region of Tlaxcala, Mexico. It was created 50 years after
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The loss of a sword was a catastrophe to a Viking. Vikings believed a man and his sword were bound together. The sword
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - During the Viking Age, organizing and financing trading possibilities was necessary. This was done through something known as Félag, which can be best described
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Not all knowledge of our ancestors is lost forever and there is still much to be learned from ancient people and their methods
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AncientPages.com - Pax Sinica (in Latin:"Chinese peace") was similar in its meaning to Pax Romana, and it applied to the period of peace in East Asia, maintained by social, cultural, ideological, or economic
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Vikings were famous for their raids and conquests of new lands, but they also had other ‘talents.’ The Norse warriors were cunning businessmen who
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The unicorn is a legendary animal that has fascinated people for ages. Depictions of this magical and beautiful animal have been found on ancient
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 399 B.C., one of the greatest philosophers of all time, Socrates was sentenced to death. Socrates was a courageous man who stood up
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Conny Watets - AncientPages.com - A new type of foot soldier emerged around 800 BC in Greece when the country was still recovering after the fall of Mycenaean
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AncientPages.com - The expression “"Pyrrhic Victory" has a long history that goes back to the third century BC and is related to the king Pyrrhus of Epirus (319 BC
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How do we define a ‘foreigner today? Most people would say it is a person who is born in, or comes from a
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Katana is the most famous Japanese Samurai sword. The Japanese Katana sword is considered "the soul of the Samurai" and one of the deadliest-edged
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