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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Many have sought the legendary ancient golden city of Vineta, but its location remains an unsolved mystery. Did Vineta really exist, or was it only a mythical city? Do the ancient ruins of Vineta lie
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – All across the world, there are still many mysterious ancient scripts, tablets, codes, and maps that remain undeciphered. Shepherd’s Monument, Shugborough Estate – Staffordshire, England. Image credit: Daderot – CC0 1.0 Multiple attempts to solve
AncientPages.com – One-horned creatures are found in myths around the world. Although unicorns in different cultures have little to do with one another, they have multiple associations in European thought. For example, the Roman natural historian Pliny the Elder wrote about unicorns in
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Forgotten for millennia, the Kingdom of Mitanni was discovered in the nineteenth century, and excavations revealed fascinating facts about this unusual kingdom, which once existed in northern Mesopotamia. Also known as Hanigalbat, Mitanni flourished during the
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Bread has been known for millennia, though its authentic history is lost in time. It is the primary food of man in almost all cultures worldwide. The folklore surrounding bread was passed down through oral
AncientPages.com – The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts are often just as interesting as the content of the manuscripts themselves. One such example is the frequently recurring – and extremely odd – image of knights warring against snails.
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In ancient Etruscan belief, there is a mysterious being called Tuchulcha—a figure so unusual that scholars have long debated whether it is male or female. With an animal-like face and beard, yet often depicted in
AncientPages.com – Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In an episode of the Australian series of “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here,” former
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com -There is a mysterious ancient city of Djado located on the southern border of the Djado plateau in northeastern Niger. Once, there were several cities on this plateau, but today, the area is largely uninhabited. Ruins
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – History has taught us that people have, on certain occasions, done bizarre things. Depending on the circumstances and mental state of mind, it does happen that people sometimes freak out. In most cases, there is
AncientPages.com – Games have been played for thousands of years in cultures across the world. There’s the chequerboard game Senet, played in Egypt around BCE 3100. The African cup board game Mancala has been played since BCE 1400. Chess originated in
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In Finland, many unexplored ancient caves hold many secrets. One of them is called Varggrottan, which means Wolf Cave in English. When archaeologists explored the mysterious cave, they found several artifacts that suggest this place
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egypt did not have a public school system, so the average Egyptian could neither read nor write. It is estimated that fewer than 1% of Egyptians—at least during the Old Kingdom—were literate. Credit: Harald
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The legend of Saint Brendan’s island has not died, but this intriguing place raises many questions. Does this mythical island exist? Why does it appear on ancient maps if it was merely a phantom island?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One question science has long wanted answers to is simple: How cold was the ice age? We now have an answer to this question thanks to a team of scientists who nailed down the temperature
AncientPages.com – Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans spread throughout the rest of the world is one of the most
