Ancient Places
Explore mysterious ancient ruins, sacred sites, places of great historical importance and phenomenal archaeological sites. Many ancient places offer us unique glimpse to the past.
Marvel over the astonishing architecture and history. You will be magically transported back in time.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Under the North Sea lies a huge rural area, known as “Doggerland” and dating back to 7,000 years ago. It is now submerged beneath
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mount Nemrut is an awe-inspiring and enigmatic place located on one of the highest peaks of the Eastern Taurus mountain range, at an altitude
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1998, a resident made an intriguing discovery of thirteen stone stelae in Hakkari. Hakkâri (also called Julemerg) is a city and capital
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An incredible complex of tombs and artworks known as Naqsh-e Rostam ("Picture of Rostam"), or Necropolis, is located outside of the city of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A mysterious ancient underwater structure hidden beneath MacDonald Lake reveals traces of a lost civilization present in Ontario, Canada thousands of years ago.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The library of Celsus is one of the best known and the most beautiful classic monuments in Turkey. It was built in 117 AD
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - People have continuously occupied the Grand Canyon for at least the past 4,000 years, and they have lived in the region for the past
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mount Roraima is located on a high plateau at the junction of Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana. It was carved from a single, monolithic,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Motilla del Azuer is an impressive and unusual 3,200-year-old fortress in the Iberian Peninsula. Located in the central area of Spain called La Mancha,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The beautiful ancient city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka was a place where powerful kings ruled 800 years ago. Polonnaruwa (also sometimes called Kandavuru Camp
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An unknown ancient city of Buritaca is located in an isolated massif of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the northern part of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An archaeological site of Copán contains the remains of ancient ruins associated with the Maya civilization. It is located in the Copán Department of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of Belize’s largest and oldest continuously occupied Maya sites is - Lamanai, located deep within the jungles of the Orange Walk District on
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient sources reveal that Mayan priests knew of an ancient civilization that existed underground. Still, there was a reason why no one was
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Loretto Chapel staircase is shrouded in myths and surrounded by a veil of mystery. People from various countries visit and admire the unusual
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The name of Europe’s largest megalithic mausoleum is Cairn de Barnenez. Located the Bay of Morlaix, Britanny, France, we find some of the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The largest keyhole-shaped tomb in Japan - Daisenryo Kofun – is located in the city of Sakai in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Kofun ("ancient grave")
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bolivian legends that go back some 5,000 years say about the destruction of civilization in far-off times as the result of a conflict with
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located 20 km (12.4 mi) north of the Al-`Ula town, 400 km (248.5 mi) north-west of Medina, and 500 km (310.7 mi) south-east of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The representation of the Sacred Mountain of the Mayas, is located only ten kilometers from a village Ocosingo in Chiapas between the famous Palenque
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Mexico News Daily reports that funeral rituals could have been carried out in the chamber at the Teotihuacán archaeological site. Researchers from the National Institute of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most important archaeological discoveries in Oklahoma and the entire North America was the Spiro Mounds Site. The people of Spiro
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Who were these beings who visited prehistoric Jordan, a place at the crossroads of the oldest human cultures? The statues along with two
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Thousands of Thamudic petroglyphs are scattered all over the area of the Wadi Rum, just south of the famous rose-red city of Petra, in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The beautifully colored ancient wall paintings in the Goguryeo tombs show images of animals, palaces, water wells, warriors, forests, birds, and astonishing landscapes.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Africa’s rock art is very rich and can be found in many places across the vast African continent. It constitutes an important legacy of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to an ancient legend the Shwedagon Pagoda is 2,500 years old dating back to the lifetime of the Buddha, making it the oldest
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Conwy Castle in Snowdonia is considered one of Europe's most impressive military structures of the late 13th century and early 14th century that
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Millennia ago, unknown Neolithic builders erected gigantic stone blocks on coastlines ranging from the Orkney Islands to far away in Jordan. Examples of megaliths
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Koh Ker was part of the Khmer kingdom during the Angkor period in what is now Cambodia. In this long forgotten ancient city stands a magnificent step pyramid
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are certain places on this planet that are often referred to as spiritual hotspots. Such places are believed to be surrounded by a
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Il Globo reports that archaeologists have made a surprising discovery in the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city, which was destroyed following the explosion of Mt
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Etowah Indian Mounds are a remarkable legacy of the ancient Mississippian culture. The mounds can be found near the juncture of the Etowah River
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have discovered a unique burial complex of the royal confidant and priest Kaires. Kaires was an unusual man of great importance and he
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Not much is known about the magnificent Pasha Gardens and the history of the ruins we find here is shrouded in mystery. Located
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AncientPages.com - Two ancient paintings made of sandstone have been discovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission working on reducing the groundwater level at Aswan’s Kom Ombo Temple. One of the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Ausevik rock art site at Høydalsfjorden, in Sunnfjord, in Western Norway, contains more than 300 rock carvings of different shapes, of which many
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Some really impressive petroglyphs can be admired on the hills overlooking the desert communities Santa Clara and Ivins in the Santa Clara River Reserve,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Ming Tombs ("Ming Thirteen Mausoleums") is a collection of imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty scattered over forty square kilometers in Changping
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AncientPages.com - A 1,800-Year-old painted tomb has been unearthed by archaeologists from the Department of Antiquities and the discovery that was made at the ancient site of Capitolias in
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many times, ancient people left behind certain clues that, when deciphered, could describe things and events they had witnessed. It was their way of leaving
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers at Tulane University have documented the discovery of dozens of ancient cities in northern Guatemala through the use of jungle-penetrating Lidar (light detection and ranging) technology.
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