AncientPages.com – On February 27, 1595, King Henry IV was crowned and recognized as King of France. Henry IV was born on December 13, 1553, in southwest France. He was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, and
AncientPages.com – On February 26, 1266, the battle was fought near Benevento (in present-day Southern Italy). The troops of Charles of Anjou and Manfred of Sicily were involved in the conflict. Manfred’s defeat and death ended the rule of the House
AncientPages.com – Two inscription of great historical importance have been found in the Western Galilee town of Peqi’in in Israel. The 1,800-year-old inscriptions were found in in the courtyard of an ancient synagogue. Archaeologists and historians find the text highly significant because
AncientPages.com – On February 25, 1336, Pilenai, a hill fort in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, was attacked by large Teutonic forces, who tried in vain to organize a defense against the more significant invader. Punia hill fort bears Margiris’ name
AncientPages.com – Two rare funerary busts rescued from the destruction of by Isis group are soon heading back to Syria. Recovered by Syrian troops, but badly damaged possibly by hammer blows, the artifacts have been painstakingly repaired in Italy. The busts
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Egypt are busy with restoration of a statue of the celebrated 19th dynasty pharaoh, Ramesses II. Colossus of Ramesses II (Ramsess II) once decorated the façade of the first pylon of the Karnak Temple Complex. The statue is
AncientPages.com – There are numerous Hindu temples dedicated to the Supreme Being, Lord Shiva, Hindu god known by many names and titles and one of the three main gods in the Hindu pantheon. Five temples were built to Shiva, who controls
AncientPages.com – During the Revolutionary War (1775-83), also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence, the Colonists often had to bluff their way to victory. That’s what happened in 1779 in Vincennes, Indiana. This dramatic painting
AncientPages.com – Roughly 65 Byzantine-era tombs have been unearthed in the most recent archaeological excavations in Stratonikeia Ancient City, located in the western province of Muğla, in the Aegean region of Turkey. Archaeologists continue to excavate the ancient graveyard – an
AncientPages.com – Clash among scientists! There is currently a heated debate in the scientific community. Archaeologists maintain geneticists have totally misunderstood the Viking occupation in England. Geneticists, on the other hand say that archaeologists feel threatened by a new form of
AncientPages.com – The three-headed and six-armed Ashura statue is a national treasure and one of the best-known ancient Buddhist artworks in Japan. Made in 734 AD, the statue had survived several earthquakes, fires and wars through the centuries, but at the
AncientPagaes.com – Israeli and French team of archaeologists begin excavations of an ancient and unexplored Biblical site, where the famous Ark of the Covenant was kept for two decades, before King David relocated it in Jerusalem. This Judean site, called
AncientPages.com – On February 23, 1455, Europe’s first mass-produced book – the Gutenberg Bible – was printed with movable type in Mainz, Germany. The book was a Latin language Bible. It was one of the most significant events that took place in
AncientPages.com – More than 100 plant seeds dating back 2,000 years have been unearthed from an ancient tomb in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The seeds, which are half-moon-shaped, were discovered gathered in the shape of a circle with a
AncientPages.com – Some several thousand years ago, there once flourished a great civilization in the Indus Valley. The largest of the four ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, Indus Civilization covered an area of what is today Pakistan and
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The ancient Tully Monster is a decades-old paleontological mystery scientists still cannot solve. The ancient animal is so weird it simply doesn’t fit any classification. First discovered in the 1950s in Mazon Creek, a
