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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century painting known as "Salvator Mundi" (Savior of the World) was found hidden in an
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have presented a new, interesting interpretation of England’s famous Domesday Book. The “Domesday Book” is closely related to William The Conqueror (or “William the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While studying ancient paintings within Buddhist temples in northwestern China’s Mogao Caves, researchers detected ‘an ancient mistake’ in the artwork. The Mogao Grottoes, near
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution Isaac Newton was
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Cambridge University Library has announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, worth many millions of pounds are missing, believed to have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance. His inventions, paintings, and sculptures are today admired
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This remarkable painting comes from the second century when Egypt was a Roman province, hence the portraits are more lifelike and less hieroglyphic-like
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In medieval times, it was very expensive to make parchments, so leaves were regularly scraped or erased and re-used over and over again.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wondered what Europe smells like? Most likely it’s not something we think about on daily basis, but a group of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Previously uncounted copies of Isaac Newton's groundbreaking science book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known as the 'Principia' have been found by a Caltech
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - On December 26, 1665, the Codex Cospi (or Codex Bologna) was given as a Christmas gift to the Italian nobleman Ferdinando Cospi (1606
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The composition of red and black inks in ancient Egyptian papyri from circa 100-200 AD, has been discovered by a team of researchers
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It may be nothing than just pure coincidence, because pandemics have been around as long as humans, but it’s interesting to note a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study combines newly available analyses and methods from linguistics and genetics to tackle a long-standing topic in archaeological research, confirming the demographic
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians prepared thoroughly for the afterlife and they were convinced that it was possible to be in the company of the gods,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent research suggests that most languages that have ever existed are no longer spoken. Dozens of these dead languages are also considered to be lost,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The loss of tropical rainforests and grasslands that once dominated Southeast Asia caused the extinction of many of the region's megafauna, and probably
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient paintings showing eight Buddhist saints possibly dating back to over 1,300 years ago have been discovered on temple columns blackened by soot.
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Ancient Places
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The city of Teotihuacán in Mexico remains as intriguing as mysterious. There is still so much we do not know about Teotihuacán, a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have analyzed 18 ancient texts dating back to around 600 BCE from the Tel Arad military post
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 3,500 years ago, the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete developed a writing system composed of syllabic signs, called Linear A,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians understood the value of what is today known as the world’s oldest artificial pigment. Egyptian blue appeared about 5,000 years ago
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Chinese text of the Mawangdui medical manuscripts found in is the earliest surviving anatomical description of the human body. "We have demonstrated that
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient treasures can be found in the most unexpected places. Sometimes a page from a rare manuscript can be enough to shed new
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The impressive castle in the town of Cēsis in central Latvia recently revealed one of its ancient secrets. The ruins of Cesis -
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During the Renaissance great painters like Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, and many others produced extraordinary art. Their famous and beautiful paintings are
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - These paintings were not meant to bee seen for a long time. The world has waited 3,000 years to see the hidden ancient
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Ancient Places
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Petroglyphs and drawings in Gobustan are among the most ancient rock galleries in the world. They show many different aspects of everyday life,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pyramid Texts represent the oldest known collection of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions containing religious texts, elaborate spells (or utterances), hymns, prayers, thousands of
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The great Renaissance man Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519), had many secrets he was unwilling to share with the world. Modern scientists must
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Scientists are now able to shed more light on the mysterious orb depicted in Salvator Mundi, a painting created by Italian Renaissance artist
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Linguistic Discoveries
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Have we misunderstood the contents of the famous epic poem Beowulf? According to one professor who spent eight years studying the poem, Beowulf
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A manuscript translation of Tacitus's Annales, completed in the late sixteenth century and preserved at Lambeth Palace Library, was done by Queen Elizabeth
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - We have been using this cultural achievement of the ancient Romans for at least 2,500 years. Roman square capitals, (also called capitalis monumentalis, or capitalis quadrata),
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