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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We continue to explore many ancient mysteries of the Knights Templar. In part 1 we discussed a secret meeting organized by influential persons
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research has found that the population of Ireland was in serious decline for almost 200 years before the Vikings settled. Previously it
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting Virgin of the Rocks contains some surprises. Using a technique called infrared reflectography (IRR) researchers
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A small piece of papyrus that was excavated on the island of Elephantine on the River Nile a little over 100 years ago,
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Knights Templar have fascinated historians, writers and the public for many centuries. Much has been written about this powerful and wealthy Christian military
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ago, which means the date is about 10,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The face of one of Scotland’s oldest druids, believed to have been more than 60 years old when she died during the Iron
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Brokkr and Eitri were Norse dwarves who fashioned magical artifacts for the gods, making them powerful and invincible. In Norse mythology, many stories
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Toltecs, an ancient Mesoamerican culture, lived in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. The Aztecs refer to the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors. We
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During excavations on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, archaeologists from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, have found evidence of the Babylonian conquest
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Greek mythology, there is a well-known myth of Hades, a harsh, shadowy place where the dead lived. Hades is also the name of the god
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We continue to explore the untold story of the Great Sphinx, an ancient monument that still remains shrouded in mystery. In part 1
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Frumentarii was a special military elite in the Roman Empire that served as the emperor's secret police. At the turn of the second
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two 2,000-year-old marble eagle statues have been discovered in a Hellenistic temple at the Kınık Mound, located near the Yeşilyurt village in Niğde's Altunhisar
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Slavic mythology, this winged demon is called Strzyga (in Polish). In other cultures, it is the belief known as Strix (Strigoi). Rarely
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - His nose is broken, and his eyes are nothing but holes. His head is still bearing some traces of red and yellow paint,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People in Ethiopia did not live in low valleys during the last ice age. Instead they lived high up in the inhospitable Bale
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Even at the peak of their culture rival groups of the Maya acted with great brutality. Extreme conflicts broke out before the civilization’s
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists found shards of ceramic vessels that date back to 4640 - 4460 BC, and are from an unknown ancient culture, probably related
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We continue to discuss perplexing fires that defy an ordinary explanation. In part 1 we talked about curious incidents involving objects that for
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An enigmatic object in form of the earliest known lunar calendar, dating from the Upper Paleolithic, has been found on a pebble found
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A skull with marks indicating that neurosurgery existed 2,200 years ago, has been unearthed during excavations carried out in the ancient city of Euromus,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Israel's Galilee have unearthed remains of an ancient church said to mark the home of the apostles Peter and Andrew.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - James Leigh Hunt once said that the most tangible of all visible mysteries is fire, and this article shows he could have been
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The first forms of religion appeared in prehistory because humans understood that there are many natural phenomena, such as floods, drought, thunder, and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Mirrors, mirrors, mirrors everywhere. The more mirrors Lucida Mansi had, the more she could admire herself. To say that she was vain is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations at the ancient Urartu fortress in eastern Turkey's Van province will help to solve the mysteries of a 2,700-year-old temple. For the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The lost kingdom of Urartu is shrouded in mystery and still very little is known about this ancient place and the origin of its
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today Sahara is one of the hottest and driest places on Earth. It’s impossible for most living organisms survive for a longer period
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