AncientPages.com - Constructed from 3,2 million stone blocks, each weighting an average of 2.5 tons, the Pyramid of Cheops reached a height of was 146.7 m (481.4 ft) when completed. It remained

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, Kvasir was an amazing being created from the saliva of the Aesir and the Vanir gods. Emil Doepler younger (1855-1922)-'Odin

AncientPages.com - The Stonehenge mystery continues. This time an archaeologist has put forward a “different” theory suggesting that Stonehenge, located on Salisbury Plain in UK is older than mankind

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today, two ancient scientists, Eratosthenes Of Cyrene and Posidonius of Rhodes are famous for their attempts to calculate the circumference of the Earth. As previously

AncientPages.com - The discovery of Czarist officer's corpse in Turkey has led to a dispute between Russia and Poland. Both countries claim the body and Turkey is busy trying

AncientPages.com - Egyptian coffins have indeed a long history. The oldest ones are more than 5000 years old and and they originate from the times, the state of the

AncientPages.com - Remains of a Graeco-Roman temple dated to the Greco-Roman period (332 BC - 395 AD) have  been unearthed  at the Al-Salam archaeological site, about 50km east of the

AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered 400-year-old documents that reveal Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th-century lord of Kyusyu, Japan, ordered his people to produce opium for medical purposes. A description of

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of a 4,000-year-old Sumerian port in Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. It’s a major discovery that could shed more light on the great climate

AncientPages.com - Nicknamed the ‘Robin Hood of the Seas’, legendary English pirate Black Sam operated in the early 18th century. As Ancient Pages reported earlier, in February this year, researchers

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Dublin have discovered 11th-century Viking village with graffiti and unique artifacts. According to researchers, the discovery is an “extraordinary find”.  As previously mentioned on

AncientPages.com - It’s not easy to find footprints from the last Ice Age in an area that is today covered by dense forest, but archaeologists have discovered as many

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Fenrir (the Wolf) is the oldest of three terrible children of Loki, according to the literary works Poetic Edda (the Icelandic medieval manuscript known

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Völuspá, the first poem in the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda, is one of the most outstanding literary achievements in the

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Askeladden (in English: 'Ash Lad') is a charming, the youngest of all brothers, and the least resourceful figure from ancient mythological beliefs. When