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AncientPages.com - On March 20, 1916, Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) submitted his "Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity" for publication in the journal Annals of Physics'
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AncientPages.com - On March 19, 1697, Tsar Peter the Great left Moscow to travel to Western Europe. He was the first Tsar to leave his country in peacetime and 'opened a
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Thalia Lightbringer - AncientPages.com - Everyone knows about the Pyramids of Giza. Many are also aware of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, and perhaps also the pyramids
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Saraswati River is not a legend. It really existed when great civilizations flourished in the northwestern part of India. It has been richly
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AncientPages.com - On March 18 (or 19), 1314, Jacques de Molay, the last grandmaster of the Knights Templars, an order of knighthood founded during the Crusades, was burned at stake. Jacques
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AncientPages.com - The royal colossus unearthed a week ago in Matariya district, Cairo is probably a statue of 26 dynasty king Psammetich I and not King Ramses II
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AncientPages.com - On March 17, 1880, Captain Lawrence "Titus" Oates, an English cavalry officer with the 6th Dragoons and later an Antarctic explorer, was born in London. He died during
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AncientPages.com - An ancient observatory from the 3rd or 4th century has been discovered by a team of researchers during excavations carried out in the south of Iran. Traces of the
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AncientPages.com - On March 16, 1485, Anne Neville, the daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp, died mysteriously at the age of twenty-eight. Did tuberculosis
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AncientPages.com - A mysterious pyramid-shaped tomb has been unearthed in China. The age of the tomb has not yet been determined. It is also unknown who was buried inside
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest human cranium fossil was discovered in the cave of Aroeira in Portugal. Dated to 400,000 years ago, the cranium represents the
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AncientPages.com - On March 15, 44 BC., Roman Dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated, not in the Senate but in a meeting room adjacent to the Theatre of Pompey. The conspirators
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AncientPages.com - The long-lost wreck of a crusader ship and sunken cargos dating to the 13th century CE have been found in the bay of the crusader stronghold city
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the recent years, many interesting discoveries have been made in the Altai Mountains, Siberia. This time, researchers report they have discovered evidence
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AncientPages.com - On March 14, 1757, John Byng, an admiral of the Royal Navy, was executed by firing squad for neglect of duty. Byng was born on October
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Famous as the Lords of the Ocean, the Vikings had their homeland in the Nordic regions of Europe known today as Scandinavia. Many associate
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AncientPages.com - On March 13, 1567, the Battle of Oosterweel was fought and was traditionally seen as the beginning of the Eighty Years' War or Dutch War of
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AncientPages.com - On March 12, 1896, the first radiogram was sent by Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov. It traveled over 200 yards from one building of the St. Petersburg University to
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A subject that has long been debated is the appearance and disappearance of the mysterious Scythian tribes living in the southern steppes of
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AncientPages.com - An 8-meter quartzite colossus possibly depicting Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, has been unearthed by German-Egyptian archaeological team. Excavations at the ancient archaeological
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AncientPages.com - On March 11, 1864, the Great Sheffield Flood occurred. The immediate cause was a crack in the dam, the cause of which was never determined. This
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AncientPages.com - The 3,400-year-old and rare Egyptian artifact was pieced together by a team of researchers at National Museums Scotland (NMS), who recently received some missing fragments of the
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AncientPages.com - A unique, full-length mummy shroud, which is over 2,000 years old, yet still in remarkable condition, has been discovered within National Museums Scotland’s collections. Researchers say that
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AncientPages.com - On March 10, 241 BC, the Carthaginian relieving fleet was defeated near the Aegates Islands off western Sicily, and the event is known as the Battle of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological discoveries have provided us with plenty of evidence that the Neanderthals were not as primitive as we previously thought. Scientists have examined
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AncientPages.com - A body of an adult man buried in the 5th Millennium BC in Avignon, southern France has been recently studied by a team of researchers from Bordeaux
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AncientPages.com - A team of German archaeologists has discovered parts from 66 statues of the lion-headed Pharaonic goddess Sekhmet. The archaeologists unearthed the statues during excavations in the area
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AncientPages.com - Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence on March 9, 1451. He was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer. He played a prominent role in exploring
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By studying ancient DNA we can get a good glimpse into the distant past and learn about our ancestors. Scientists have now examined
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