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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - About 6,000-10,000 years ago, an interesting mutation resulted in the emergence of blue eyes. Before that, all people on Earth had brown eyes.
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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
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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
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Ellen Lloyd - Ancientpages.com - Sumerians made several ancient statues of beings who had huge and blue eyes. These ancient statues were then placed in the high temple
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sacred Mount Fuji on Honshu Island, Japan, has been a widely venerated mountain in Japan since ancient times. People of both Buddhist and
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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AncientPages.com - On February 22, 1784, the 52nd birthday of President George Washington, a wooden ship was constructed and named "The Empress of China." As the first voyage between
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AncientPages.com - For generations, Okinawans potters produced fascinating pottery, of which fragments are still being unearthed. A fragment of pottery, which is believed to have come from earthenware, was
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AncientPages.com - On February 21, 1437, James I of Scotland was killed in Perth on February 21, 1437, but the exact site of his grave has been forgotten over
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AncientPages.com - A few months ago, a sarcophagus at an olive grove, belonging to the Late Antiquity period, was discovered in Turkey's western Bursa province. Archeologists have studied of
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AncientPages.com - On February 20, 1901, the Russian Orthodox Church censored Count Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, because his public statements contradicted the articles of orthodox belief.
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Hinduism is rich in symbolism. There are a variety of ancient sacred symbols that represents philosophies, teachings, and gods and goddesses. Many of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - You might have tasted a Garibaldi biscuit that consists of two soft rectangular slabs of biscuits sandwiching a bed of currants, but do
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AncientPages.com - On 19 February 197, the Battle of Lugdunum was fought between the armies of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and of the Roman usurper Clodius Albinus. Severus refused to share
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AncientPages.com - On February 18, 1478, George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, who conspired against his brother, Edward IV, during the Wars of the Roses, was convicted of treason and executed
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Do you dare to enter through the gateway to hell? At the Phrygian city of Hierapolis in southwestern Turkey, there is a sacred ancient site dedicated
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AncientPages.com - On February 17/18, 1370, the Teutonic Knights fought the army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and won. This military encounter is known in history as the Battle
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AncientPages.com - On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 - 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the 14th-century pharaoh King Tutankhamun in the
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AncientPages.com - On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 - 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the 14th-century pharaoh King Tutankhamun in the tomb
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Marcus Licinius Crassus (c. 115 B.C. —53 BC.) was a Roman general and politician. Today, he is remembered as the wealthiest man in
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AncientPages.com - On February 15, 1898, at 9:40 p.m., the USS Maine exploded, killing 260 men aboard. Public opinion in the United States, urged on by the yellow
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures regarded number 9 (or ‘Nine’) as a symbol of perfection, unity, and freedom. Even in ancient Egypt, it was attached great
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The number 7 seems to be everywhere. This mysterious number has accompanied humanity for a very long time. The Seven Sacred Planets. source Seven
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AncientPages.com - On February 14, 1779, James Cook was killed by a mob on the Sandwich Islands (now called Hawaii). At the time, he was trying to take
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AncientPages.com - On February 13, 1578, Tycho Brahe first sketched the "Tychonic system," a modified geocentric model in order to explain the motions of bodies in the Solar System. Tycho
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AncientPages.com - Some years ago, archaeologists uncovered beautifully preserved, 1,000-year-old Viking boat burial in Scottish Highlands. It is today known as the Ardnamurchan boat burial. Inside a 5m-long grave
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AncientPages.com - King Arthur is one of, if not the most legendary icons of medieval Britain. His popularity has lasted centuries, mostly thanks to the numerous incarnations of his
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AncientPages.com - On February 12, 712, Du Fu, titled "The Sage of Poetry," was born in today's Gong County in Henan Province, China. Fu was a great personality and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - How important was hygiene in ancient times and expectations about keeping oneself clean? Although the term "hygiene" came into use at the beginning of
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AncientPages.com - On February 11, 660 AD, a memorable holiday was celebrated in Japan. The so-called National Foundation Day commemorates the nation's creation and is also related to
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AncientPages.com - A large collection of boat coffin tombs dating back 2,200 years has been discovered by Chinese archeologists at a construction site in Feihu Village, Pujiang County in
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