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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Napoleonic Code was the French Civil Code introduced under Napoleon I on 21 March 1804. It was the first consistent set of laws
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Khepri is one of the important deities of Egyptian mythology. Khepri was the god of creation, the movement of the sun, life, and resurrection.
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Known in ancient Egypt as Sekhmet, she was frequently portrayed with a lion head surmounted by a uraeus and a solar disk. Black
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among many colorful epithets of the great god, Odin was "Lord of the Spear." Odin owned Gungnir (in Old Norse means "swaying one"), a magical
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya believed that the underworld – Xibalba - was a ‘place of fear’. In some ancient accounts, it is a domain of
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The mysterious site known as Puma Punku, “The Gateway of the Puma.” Puma Punku is a beautiful and true wonder of the ancient
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Caesarion was murdered on August 23, 30 B.C., only 17 years old. He was the last King of the Egyptian Ptolemies, most probably
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, Nidhogg (also (Nithog, Nidhögg) is the corpse-eating dragon that lives entwined around Yggdrasil’s foot. Nidhogg is stalking in the roots of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ziz is a giant bird found in Hebrew cosmogony and a creature that belongs to the celestial sphere. Its head touches the sky,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - She is an important figure in the Inca's ancient beliefs. Ocllo (or Mama Uqllu) was worshipped by the Incas of Central and Southern
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In many parts of the world, there are curious ancient carvings of beings who don’t resemble ordinary humans. Who are these peculiar creatures
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It all started in 2008 when archaeologists excavated a fascinating ancient archaeological site Guachimontones (‘Los Guachimontones’) is located just outside the modest little
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This castle is located about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Aberdeen, Scotland, and is known as the Fyvie Castle. It’s an ancient
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A tomb decorated with frescos dating back about 1,000 years ago, was accidentally discovered by a group of farmers in north China's Inner
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A large number of artifacts discovered in rescue excavations of a Thracian burial mound include an ostrich egg turned into a vessel and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A secret tunnel was accidentally discovered during construction works at the Østerport light rail station in Copenhagen. According to archaeologists from the Museum of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Because of its ability to capture extraordinarily accurate, high-resolution, 3D data LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has become an appreciated tool among archaeologists.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People living in the southern areas of today's Poland over 4,000 years ago were genetically similar to earlier communities from this area. Researchers
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many have claimed the Justinianic Plague (c. 541-750 CE) killed half of the population of the Roman Empire. Now, historical research and mathematical
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient people continued their centuries-long tradition of socializing and feasts, even after an unknown crisis around A.D. 650. More than a thousand years
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609 marks the creation of the modern globalized
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Five centuries after Charles I of Spain authorized the transport of the first African slaves to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the ancestry
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Remains of an Avar warrior and a belt set that can be dated to the turn of the 7th to the 8th century,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Istrian archaeologists have excavated an ancient wooden boat dating back two thousand years from under the Poreč waterfront, located on the western coast of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Kayseri province is a very special region of Turkey. It has several ancient spots where archaeologists discovered underground cities. The city of Kayseri
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Finding an unknown cave is an exciting discovery, but the finding is even more thrilling if you see there are several, beautiful, unique
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The ancient cemetery of Mözs-Icsei dűlő in present-day Hungary holds clues to a unique community formation during the beginnings of Europe's Migration Period, according
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered hidden geometric patterns in the layout of Göbeklitepe, an archaeological site in Turkey’s southeastern Şanlıurfa province that is home to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lugalzagesi was a Sumerian king who reigned c. 2341 BC - 2316 BC and lived in the mid-fourteenth century BC. According to his
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An accidental discovery of an ancient tomb chamber has recently been made in a graveyard near Sari, northern Iran, as an excavator was
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient petroglyphs in Iran represent a large part of the rock art (pictographs, or painting on rock; and rock reliefs) of this ancient
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Is it possible to be killed by a meteorite? Yes, of course, it is but until now it has been difficult to find
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - What makes our species unique compared to other hominins? Exploring how Homo sapiens colonized most of the world's continents in a relatively short
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers led by Newcastle University analyzed the uses of Bronze Age swords, shields, and spears that were used in Bronze
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Cuzco is a beautiful ancient city in the Peruvian Andes. When the first Spaniards set foot there, they were stunned to see a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - 21st century X-ray technology has allowed the University of Warwick scientists to peer back through time at the production of the armor worn
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A set of ancient copper ingots shaped as discs have been found in a shipwreck near a Black Sea cape in Southeast Bulgaria.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Vikings lived in large families that included parents, children, and grandparents. When the eldest son took over the estate, he became head
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - Ancient Pages.com - Earlier this year, archaeologists excavated in Luxor, Egypt where they uncovered a small wooden coffin belonging to a woman who was about
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers analyzed the molecular remains of food left in pottery used by the first farmers who settled along the Atlantic Coast of Europe from
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient underground world in Turkey is very impressive. The famous underground city of Derinkuyu in Cappadocia is one example and so is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The walls of a 1,000-year-old medieval Christian church have been unearthed on a hilltop in northeastern Ethiopia by archaeologists from the Polish Centre
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