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AncientPages.com - How many ancient mummies, statues and precious artifacts could we still find in the land of the pyramids? Archaeologists have announced they have discovered a completely new
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AncientPages.com - While excavating south of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel, archaeologists have discovered an ancient seal that could offer first solid proof of the Biblical prophet Isaiah.
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AncientPages.com - Historians and archaeologists have discussed the alignment of Egyptian pyramids for decades. The Great Pyramid is nearly perfectly aligned along the cardinal points—north, south, east and west—with
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AncientPages.com - The remains of a sandstone temple dating back to the 2nd century CE, during Egypt's Roman period, has been unearthed by the Egyptian Excavation Field School at
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AncientPages.com - A 1,500-year-old underground tomb containing a large stone coffin, human remains, armor in very good condition and other burial accessories, was discovered during road work in southern
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 1,300 years ago, a teenage girl was buried on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK. She received a highly unusual 'bed burial,' and
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AncientPages.com - Scientists once could reconstruct humanity’s distant past only from the mute testimony of ancient settlements, bones, and artifacts. Today there is a new powerful approach in form
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many history books will tell you that the indigenous population of the Caribbean was all but wiped out, but people who self-identify as Taíno
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Finding ancient well-persevered clothes is not something that happens daily. This is why this particular 1,700-year-old tunic is so special. It is Norway’s
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Mount Penglai is shrouded in mystery. It is a legendary land that many have tried to locate, but so far, no one has succeeded
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AncientPages.com - Ancient Romans loved boxing. The sport kept their soldiers fit and it was good entertainment the public enjoyed watching. There are many boxing scenes depicted on Roman
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AncientPages.com - Precious ancient manuscript M.910 was originally recorded by Coptic monks in Egypt roughly 1,500 years ago. Today, the badly managed manuscript is kept at the Morgan Library
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Thousands of ancient ceremonial pipes have been found in North America. What makes the spider pipes unearthed in Tennessee unusual is not only their
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AncientPages.com - Using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) technology researchers have made an astonishing discovery that can re-write history of Mexico. Hidden in the heartland of Mexico, scientists have
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AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago, there was a mysterious European culture known as the Vinca culture. These people left a legacy in form of valuable artifacts covered with
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AncientPages.com - It took months to write a book during the Middle Ages. Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment. Paper wasn't available in Europe until
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AncientPages.com - Beautiful Isle of May is today inhabited by sea birds and seals and the remote island is owned and managed by Scottish Natural Heritage as a National Nature Reserve.
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AncientPages.com - During the Viking Age females took part in battles and women could become great warriors. Archaeologists have examined an ancient tomb in the Viking town of Birka.
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Dutch archaeologists have studied two fascinating Ice Age finds found at the bottom of the North Sea. One of them is a rare
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AncientPages.com - Who made these remarkable huge animal sculptures? What tools did our ancestors use? Could this be the work of an ancient lost Sahara civilization? Located at the
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AncientPages.com - King Ferdinand of Aragon's secret coded letters have puzzled historians for centuries. King Ferdinand and his commander Gonzalo de Córdoba used a mysterious coding system consisting of
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Ancient Symbols
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Eye of Providence, also known as the All-Seeing Eye, is a powerful symbol that has been used for hundreds of years, if
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A new study of Sumerian clay tablets has provided scientists with valuable information about medicine in Mesopotamia. As previously discussed on Ancient Pages, medicine
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AncientPages.com - Nefertiti is today remembered as an Egyptian queen renowned for her beauty. She ruled alongside her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, during the mid-1300s B.C. In a historic forensic
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AncientPages.com - Legendary pirate Black Sam , sometimes nicknamed the 'Robin Hood of the Seas' was an English pirate who operated in the early 18th century. Researchers have discovered a shipwreck near
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AncientPages.com - Neanderthals had large brains and made complex tools. Previous studies have showed Neanderthals were much more advanced than we previously thought, but they lacked drawing ability. Neanderthals
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AncientPages.com - The mysterious sand mounds in and around Mapoon, in north-eastern Australia have long been a subject of controversy. Are these puzzling mounds natural formations or were they
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Linguistic Discoveries
AncientPages.com - A previously unidentified language has been found by linguists from the Lund University in Sweden, during their work in the Malay Peninsula. The language has been given
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AncientPages.com - DNA studies reveal that people in Britain had blue eyes and dark skin 10,000 years ago. Who were the first people to arrive in Britain and where
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