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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists began the first round of excavation on Sunday of a much-sought sunken warship that was confirmed late last month to be the Zhiyuan, a famous
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The ruins of a 2,400 year-old shrine beneath Cairo’s modern district of Mataria, have been discovered by Egyptian and German archaeologists, according to Antiquities Minister Mamdouh
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The accuracy of the Old Testament is a controversial topic among scientists. Many regard the ancient text as inaccurate and untrue. Needless to say that Christian people
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) extremists have blown up the famous Arch of Triumph in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, the country's
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A two-year meticulous investigation into the mystery of an Edinburgh crypt has finally cast important new light on the turbulent and little-known history of the Dark
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Human Beginnings
AncientPages.com - 60 million years ago, two asteroids struck Earth in what is now Sweden. It is the only proven example of such a double strike. The only
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - A massive ancient tomb recently opened in northern Greece was likely a monument to Hephaestion, the close companion of Alexander the Great, experts working on the
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Aboriginal society has preserved memories of Australia's coastline dating back more than 7,000 years, researchers say. After three years of painstaking research, University of the Sunshine
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AncientPages.com - A 1,500 year old mosaic, depicting a map with streets and buildings, was uncovered on the floor of an early Christian church in Kiryat Gat, about two
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AncientPages.com - The 1st century AD inscription printed on an ancient clay vessel in an ancient Thracian burial mound near the town of Tatarevo in Southern Bulgaria is
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - Ornate ancient Thracian marble steles from a Thracian shrine dedicated to the sun have been restored with a permanent open-air exhibition of replicas of the steles.
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Human Beginnings
AncientPages.com - Research into human fossils dating back to approximately two million years ago reveals that the hearing pattern resembles chimpanzees, but with some slight differences in the
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Odense City Museums have opened a stone coffin beneath the city's smal timber church of St. Alban’s Priory in Odense, Denmark The coffin with
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Three massive, mysterious amphoras have been unearthed during excavations in the Kaniş-Kültepe-Karum archaeological field in Kayseri. While still unsure as to their use, experts said it
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AncientPages.com - There are many reasons why we should treat the wisdom of the past seriously. Many of our so-called modern inventions are in fact nothing more than re-inventions
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - A unique belt made of pure silver dating back to the 2nd-4th centuries AD is among several other precious items discovered by archaeologists during the construction
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AncientPages.com - The International Symposium “Cycladica in Crete: Cycladic and Cycladicizing figurines within their archaeological context” will take place on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd October 2015 at the Museum of Cycladic
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AncientPages.com - Remains of at least 50 people, all believed to date from 11th and early 12th century, have beeen discovered during demolition work to make space for
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers led by André Strauss of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, presents evidence for a 9,000 year-old
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - A British archaeological team from the Field Museum and Oxford University conducted excavations between 1923 and 1929 in Kish City, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad.
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Myths & Legends
AncientPages.com - Nearly 50 people living in a cave and living off passing travellers by robbing, killing, butchering and eating them. The legend of Alexander Sawney Bean, and his
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry granted preliminary approval for the use of a non-invasive radar to verify a theory that Queen Nefertiti's crypt may be hidden behind
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AncientPages.com - On Sep 23, 1459 - the first major battle in the English Wars of the Roses was at Blore Heath, two miles east of Market Drayton
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AncientPages.com - On Sep 22, 480 BC the battle in the Greco-Persian Wars was fought. In this battle a Greek fleet defeated much larger Persian naval forces in
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AncientPages.com - Work is continuing to open a previously hidden tunnel that was discovered during the restoration of Tokat Castle, known as the dungeon of Dracula. The tunnel
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A rare pre-Roman tomb has been unearthed in Pompeii, shedding new light on life at the site in the fourth century BC. The rare archaeological finding confirms that
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - One of the richest Bronze Age cemeteries in the Polish lands has been discovered by archaeologists near the village Dunino in the commune Krotoszyce (Lower Silesia).
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AncientPages.com - For more than a century and a half after the Mountain Meadows Massacre, no one knew exactly where the bodies were buried. A California-based archaeologist now
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AncientPages.com - On Sep 21, 1780, General Benedict Arnold (1740 – 1801) committed treason. During the American Revolution, General Benedict Arnold (1740 – 1801) met with British Major John
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