Ancient Artifacts
Thousands of intriguing ancient artifacts have been discovered world-wide. Some of these ancient artifacts give us a deeper understanding of our ancestors’ customs, traditions, beliefs, level of technology and scientific achievements. Many of the artifacts are also mysterious and puzzling because we haven’t yet been able to determine their true purpose.
Artifacts Archive
Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - When the first modern European arrived on the shores of North America they noticed to their surprise that another civilization from their continent
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Scandal is perhaps not the best word to describe this news, but it’s certainly embarrassing and disappointing. What some suspected for a while
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist has discovered a very rare ancient Roman artifact in a Lincolnshire field, UK. Experts say this beautiful and colorful horse
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 5,000-year-old Anatolian sword was identified in a monastery on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in the Lagoon City. A small sword
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ushabti were servants devoted to working for their deceased owners. In ancient Egyptian religion, the tombs were equipped with small-sized and mummy-shaped figurines
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – At first glance, the Viklaumadonna appears to be a merely beautiful ancient sculpture, but she is much more than that. If you didn’t
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Among the most fascinating, magnificent, and technically accomplished objects made during the late Middle Ages is a group of microscopically intricate small sculptures
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – When ancient Romans explored new territories and expanded their Empire, they encountered new European cultures whose people were sophisticated and intelligent. One such
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Almost everyone is familiar with the Biblical story of how Noah managed to survive the Great Flood. The story of an ancient catastrophe
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Viking hoard was a national treasure and should have belonged to the public, but it was stolen by greedy metal detectorists
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A medieval ring from the late 9th to mid 10th century, discovered in the stronghold (a medieval ring-fort) in Grzybowo near Gniezno, a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - There is little information about these ancient ivory manikins that have been a bit of medical mystery until now. Ancient ivory manikins are
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Havering Hoard consists of more than 450 bronze objects dating between 900 and 800 B.C. These objects are ancient weapons, including axe
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Etruscan language has never been conclusively shown to be related to any other language in the world. The writing remains poorly understood.
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Goujian's sword, surprisingly rarely mentioned, belongs to the most valuable artifacts of the ancient world. Legends surround this weapon, and one of them
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is a mysterious ancient carving on a jade cylinder kept in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in the city of Hangzhou. The strange
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - School children in Sweden have accomplished what adults failed to do. A group of fifth-grade students deciphered runes that were previously impossible to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A mysterious 3,200-year-old sword accidentally discovered near a stone megalith on the Spanish island of Majorca (Mallorca) sheds new light on a long-lost
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Systematic observations of the sky were carried out by Babylonians living in southern Mesopotamia in the middle of the third millennium BC. MUL.APIN,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some ancient artifacts can be very strange and it’s difficult to explain why our ancestors created them. This odd-looking flat idol dated to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique, ornate sword has been discovered in a mysterious pre-Viking tomb in Uppsala, Sweden. The sword belonged to a person of high
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The place of origin of this miniature basalt stela is unknown. This type of amulet as a 'stela' was prevalent in the late
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This unusual figure is unique in many ways. It represents a winged half-human and half-animal creature credited with supernatural powers. It is made
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A strange artifact was found in 1847 in a bog in Balkåkra a village in south of Skåne, near the town Ystad, Sweden.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient artifacts discovered at Birka offer valuable information about Vikings’ daily life. By examining several of the objects unearthed at Birka, one can
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Ivriz relief is a Hittite rock relief in south-central Anatolia, located in the town of Aydinkent (Konya), formerly called Ivriz (modern Turkey).
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - All across the world puzzling artifacts have been discovered that do not fit the accepted geologic or historical timeline. Is it possible that
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Studies strongly suggest that Indian Civilization emerged in the 8th millennium BC and pre-Harappan cultures, which were thoroughly studied, should be rather called
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An extremely high-tech civilization existed in the distant past of our planet. We currently know nothing about these beings. Most of what we
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The jars of Laos are long-lasting mystery. No one was ever able to establish how these enigmatic artifacts got onto the plain, nor
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we talked about legends that explained why this sacred artifact was believed to have mystical powers. Some people
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Everyone who had heard the legend knew the sacred object had mystical powers, but where was it hidden? Over the centuries, many tried to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have been researching interesting findings in the Liptov Historical Region, Slovakia. The first known inhabitants came to Liptov during the Neolithic age
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A certain ancient mystery is related to the Abbey of San Galgano, located in the beautiful Val de Merse just 35 km south of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Yoruba peoples of South Western Africa are credited with one of Africa's oldest and finest art traditions. In the history of Ife
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Is ancient sacred wisdom of the gods kept in monasteries of the Tibetan monks? Thousands of old manuscripts of which many were written on
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Who could possibly have wielded this giant Japanese sword? The Norimitsu Odachi measures 12.37 feet in length and 31.97 lbs in weight. It should
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The very ancient and mysterious Tibetan books "Kantyua and Tantyua" are a treasury of sacred wisdom and a cornerstone of Tibetan civilization. Kantyua consists 108
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An ancient Jewish manuscript entitled "The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek" translated by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, contains the following
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many ancient artifacts that challenge current knowledge about our ancestors’ technological skills. Some of these artifacts have been either forgotten or simply
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Monumental map of Fra Mauro is one of the most beautiful and important works in the history of cartography. The map is believed to
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - The 10 ancient jugs discovered in the old city of Shiloh’s ancient boundaries have brought the city, the tabernacle and ancient Israel to the public’s
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