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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many Native American tribes have legends about secret underground worlds their ancestors once inhabited. In some accounts, these subterranean realms are so pleasant

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists never truly know what they will uncover when they excavate Viking graves, or any ancient tombs, for that matter and that is

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Dressed in unusual clothes, she seemed to emerge from the shadows, almost out of nowhere, carrying an aura that was both fascinating and

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Do you perhaps have a birthmark? Many people do, and today we’re so used to them that they often go unnoticed. Yet in

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Legends from the region tell of Vittra, revealing their true, seductive nature. These beautiful, female spirits seduce men in the forest because of

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - You don't have to be a coward to feel a knot in your stomach when you visit this place. Once darkness falls, it's

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - After the land was created, Vainamoinen was born, but not as a child. Tradition has it that he spent so long in his mother's

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Slavic mythology, a figure known as "Lady Midday," also referred to as "Midday Spirit" or "Poludnica," is a female, malicious and murderous

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  For 2,500 years, her burial remained undisturbed beneath the ice—a silent witness to the rise and fall of civilizations, with generations living their

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Tarna Monastery, located in Nangchen County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is an ancient Tibetan monastery dating to the 11th century. Left: Mural

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - For the Navajo and other tribes of the Southwest, tales of skinwalkers are more than just legends. Navajo people are often reluctant to

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - Among the many gods in Celtic mythology, we find Dian Cécht, one of the Tuatha de Danann ("children of Dana"). He is sometimes

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Every ruler wants his bodyguard to protect him against political opponents, people's wrath, and personal enemies. No wonder Emperor Augustus (predecessor of Julius

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Odin, the Supreme God in Norse mythology, stands as a powerful symbol of more than just war. He embodies the persistent pursuit of