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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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - About 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, a major climate shift took place, and Sahara turned into a desert. Before this occurred, the region
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The use of LIDAR, (light detection and ranging) has helped to uncover more secrets of Calakmul, an enormous ancient Maya city. As a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - We can thank the pyramids of Giza for roads. A vital part of our built environment, they've been a staple of human existence
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Conny Waters - AncientPages-com - An unusual exhibition is taking place in Kentucky, USA. Backed by the Ark Encounter and the associated Creation Museum a full-sized Ark of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Impressive drone footage has revealed an ancient Mesopotamian city known as Lagash challenges long-held ideas about the origin and development of the world’s
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Crannogs are fascinating ancient artificial islands in Britain and Ireland. Previous studies have revealed hundreds of crannogs, mostly in Scotland, Ireland, and Northern
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Pyramids are frighteningly anonymous structures. Pharaohs built huge and well-constructed pyramids, tombs, and temples to glorify themselves and to be remembered after death, but
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It would seem ancient Maya cities in Mesoamerica are as beautiful as dangerous. There is solid evidence that beneath the soil surface of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of Britain's most impressive ancient Roman ruins is Hadrian's Wall. Also known as the Picts' Wall, the massive structure prevented raiders from
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We stand in the open fields of Spanish Lookout, a modernized Mennonite farming community in Central Belize, looking at what remains of ancestral
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Situated in Luxor, about 6 km from the Valley of the Kings, the Habu Temple is one of the most important Egyptian temples.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers link an eruption in the Aleutian Islands to Nile flood failures during Cleopatra’s reign. Cleopatra wouldn’t have seen the clouds of ash
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AncientPages.com - The city of Mayapán was the largest Mayan city from approximately 1200 to 1450 AD. It was an important political, economic and religious center, and the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly in modern Iraqi Kurdistan was one of the major regional centers of the Parthian Empire, which extended over
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - What started three years ago as an ordinary study of some ancient ruins located around the San Pedro hermitage, known variously as El
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An unrecognized, hidden, and millennia-old subterranean world lies under the surface of our planet. Unknown ancient men once dug an underground world of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient Tintagel Castle has quite spectacular natural topography, particularly the eroded neck of land dividing the island from the mainland. Located on both sides
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Located not far from the international airport, the Al Wathba region is home to a beautiful oasis-like wetland reserve that is enjoyed by
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Georgia Guidestones have been vandalized on previous occasions. The recent destruction of the monument dubbed "America's Stonehenge" near Elberton took place on
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the most extraordinary archaeological discoveries of recent times was the uncovering of the so-called Seahenge off the north coast of Norfolk,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While workers labored on a large construction site in the Gaza Strip, a security guard noticed a strange piece of stone sticking out
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Where exactly did our civilization emerge? Some will say our modern civilization emerged in Mesopotamia. Others will say there are underwater ruins much
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of Canterbury, Kent (England) confirm the presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Chances the ancient city of Bassania will ever be found have not been high. At the beginning of the 1st century A.D. and
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AncientPages.com - Remember when Australians paid in shillings and pence? New research suggests the words for these coins and other culturally important items and concepts are the result
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the greatest civilizations of Greek prehistory was the Mycenaean civilization, famous for its majestic architecture and monuments with a grand and impressive
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pi-Ramesse (Piramesse) is an example of an ancient city of great importance, which archaeologists surprisingly identified in two locations. Reconstruction of the city
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Roman Empire relied on a network of cities that played a pivotal role in its domain's administration, social organization, and economy.
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Inonu University, Science Teaching Department - AncientPages.com - At the 44th UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting held online on July 26, 2021, it was decided to record Arslantepe
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists admit it's a race against time if we want to save the precious and submerged Stone Age cave art few have ever
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An important discovery has been made by archaeologists working at the Chavín de Huántar archaeological site in Peru. Scientists report the discovery of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It has happened in the past that archaeological discoveries have confirmed events described in Norse Sagas. We know for example that Norse Sagas
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists has uncovered a 3,400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city once located on the Tigris River. The settlement emerged
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While excavating on a construction site of what will become an industrial park near Merida, on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula archaeologists have uncovered the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Nestled in the picturesque Northumberland countryside, Vindolanda with its fort and settlement is a treasure trove of everyday life during the Roman occupation
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hadrian's Wall, also known as Picts' Wall, Vallum Hadriani (in Latin), or simply the Roman Wall, is one of the most impressive Roman
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During an archaeological survey of Castilly Henge, near Bodmin scientists uncovered a previously unknown stone circle inside a Cornwall scheduled monument. The remarkable and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique compound bow from the Bronze Age nearly 2 meters tall was reconstructed from authentic materials by SUSU specialists as part of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations led by Wyoming's state archaeologist and involving University of Wyoming researchers have confirmed that an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming was
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a giant sinkhole in China and a huge, ancient unexplored world beyond our feet is extraordinary in many ways. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historian Prof. Tamar Herzig, Vice Dean for Research at Entin Faculty of Humanities, exposed previously unknown evidence of organized gang rape of a
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