Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeological discoveries reveal the Vikings filed their teeth for unknown reasons. Teeth filing was a very painful process. What is most intriguing is

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Very little is known about Pennard Castle, a ruined castle near the village of Pennard in the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. The

AncientPages.com - Have you ever wondered how North America got its name? In ancient times, America was visited by many foreigners such as the Vikings and of course Christopher

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Bayeux Tapestry is an impressive example of Romanesque art depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 by William, Duke of Normandy, the

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Sir William Wallace was an outlaw to the Englishmen. To the Scots, he was a brave freedom fighter, a legendary hero. William Wallace

AncientPages.com - Israeli and German team of computer scientists and Dead Sea Scrolls scholars will create a digital copy of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, informed the Israel Antiquities Authority. Dead Sea

AncientPages.com - Today we all have last names, also called surnames, but how and when did we start using last names? History tells us the custom started in Medieval

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bowling can be traced to ancient Egypt. It was a popular game practiced in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.  Ancient Egyptians played a

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Orkney Islands are situated between the North Sea to the east and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to the Norse settlement of the

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In West Jordan in 1947, near the ruins of Qumran - also known as Khirbet Qumran - clay pots filled with ancient scrolls were

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com -  Very little is known about the original Sibylline books. The original Sibylline books were closely-guarded oracular scrolls written by prophetic priestesses (the Sibylls) in

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Whether Brutus of Troy was Britain's first king and London's founder remains a controversial subject debated among scholars. Yet, some considered the story

AncientPages.com - Question: What Is The Codex Mendoza? Answer: The sixteenth-century Codex Mendoza in three parts, is an extraordinary document, for aesthetic, formal, and historical reasons. It’s among several codices, used by

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Sharkalishharri cylinder seal, like many other similar objects from the Uruk period, is an impressive example of the technical performance and the

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the 1960s, a fascinating ancient and large seal was discovered by the Old Testament scholar Dr. Marjo Korpel. Scholars assumed that the

AncientPages.com -  9,000-year-old fish bones discovered in southern Sweden provides earliest evidence of fermentation for food preservation anywhere in the world. The discovery of the world’s oldest storage of

Conny Waters -AncientPages.com - The Law of the Innocents was an attempt to protect non-combatants: women, children, and the clergy – to give rights to civilians. It was

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, the pyramid stands 55 meters (180 ft) above the surrounding plain, and in its final form, it measured 400 by 400

AncientPages.com - Question: What was the Egyptian blue? Answer: The Egyptian blue is the world’s oldest artificial pigment. It appeared about 5,000 years ago in a tomb painting

AncientPages.com - Long ago, there were many magnificent ancient libraries filled with priceless books and scrolls. Today, the Great Library of Alexandria is the most famous ancient library,

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - High in the Andes Mountains of Peru, the Inca built a dazzling empire that governed 12 million people. They had no writing system,