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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Nalanda was one of the most praised, intellectual circles of the ancient world. It was an active center of education located about 88
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Archaeologists of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) have discovered a one line inscription of as yet unknown Georgian writing, dating back 2700 years on the altar pedestal
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Farming started in Denmark and southern Sweden about 6,000 years ago, and early farmers were far more advanced than previously thought. Until now, most researchers believed that early
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1943, an ancient papyrus was bought by the Cairo museum. It was written in Hieratic and although portions of it were eaten away
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German researchers have discovered signs of what may be the earliest known case of leukemia on a 7,000 year old skeleton. The victim of the disease was a
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A large wooden chamber tomb has been brought to light by archaeologists during excavations near the Opatowska Gate in Sandomierz, Poland. Around the tomb archaeologists discovered pottery sherds and traces
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A 3.2 wide, double-faced wall was revealed during the systematic excavation and extended clearance work in the framework of the five-year-old programme “Ancient Feneos”, conducted by the Ephorate
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During excavations at Mexico City’s Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site, archaeologists have discovered a massive tzompantli, or trophy skull rack of sacrificed human skulls. It was built between
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A series of murals recently discovered in Shimao Ruins indicate that the basic production process and rendering techniques used to make Chinese murals might
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AncientPages.com - The Natufians, who existed 15,000 – 11,500 years ago, represented a fascinating ancient culture. These people lived in there region known as the Levant (modern Palestine, Israel,
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed remains of pit houses and ditches that indicated boundaries at a site dating to the fourth century A.D. in Japan’s Nara Prefecture known
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A mutilated figurine of Ancient Roman god Mars has been found by archaeologists during the excavations of the Early Byzantine and medieval Bulgarian city of Missionis, also known
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AncientPages.com - The Archaeology and Ethnography Institute under the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences has discovered new archaeological materials during an excavation conducted on the frontline in Azerbaijan’s Agdam
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AncientPages.com - The Aşıklı Mound, where settlement first started in the Cappadocia region 11,000 years ago, offers a chance to travel back in time. Archaeological excavations have been
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AncientPages.com - Excavations at the Central Anatolian province of Çorum’s Alacahöyük site, one of the significant centers of the ancient Hittite civilization and Turkey’s first national excavation field,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jade suits were first documented in literature around AD 320, although there is archaeological proof of their existence that dates back thousands of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Aviation technology has its beginnings in ancient India and the Hindus have designed the bases of aviation, along with interplanetary travel, thousands of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Our ancient human history is full of terrible wars. This is one of many wars that will never be forgotten. More than 3,000 years
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AncientPages.com - Unfortunately, conventional archaeology refers to these very controversial, ancient 'out of place artifacts' as 'ritual objects'. Not much is known about the mysterious bronze gears discovered in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The mysterious ancient city of Ebla ("White Rock") existed a thousand years before the biblical time of Kings David and Solomon. The Assyrians,
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AncientPages.com - This is Meteora, the word means: roughly, midair, in Greek. It's a special place that does seem to hang in the sky. It's a sanctuary of harmony
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This is a depiction of the infamous tooth worm believed by many people in the past to bore holes in human teeth and cause
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - North America's largest cliff dwelling is known as 'Cliff Palace' and it's located in Mesa Verde, in the southwestern corner of Colorado. Great structures
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the earliest written records describing a very strange event witnessed in the skies comes from Egypt. It is an account of an
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - We have seen on several occasions that our ancestors mastered sophisticated rock-cut architecture creating dwellings, tombs and temples that are truly a wonder of
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AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old square labyrinth has been discovered in Gedimedu, a village 16km from Pollachi, Tamil Nadu state, India, by researchers from the Verarajendran Archaeological and Historical
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient China we come across a number of highly advanced robots that could sing, dance, act like servants and perform many other surprising
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Few people know about the remarkable Mangup cliff that together forms the most immense cavern fortress on the Crimean peninsula, about 9 miles
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Codex Washingtonianus is the world's third oldest Bible, located at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art. It consists of the four Gospels in
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AncientPages.com - Ancient Irish people carved images of an ancient eclipse into giant stones over 5,000 years ago, on November 30, 3340 BC to be exact. This is the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Which of the gods' divine weapons is the best and most powerful? There were quite a lot of them, as we learn from the
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AncientPages.com - Victory Tower (Vijaya Stambh) is one of many masterworks of India's architecture. It is located at Chittorgarh fort, in Rajasthan state, India. The tower is dedicated to the most
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - This is a highly controversial and thought-provoking subject. We will therefore investigate the topic from a scientific and mythological point of view. The
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Across Europe, there are thousands of underground tunnels from the north in Scotland leading all the way down to the Mediterranean. This 12,000-year-old
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AncientPages.com - A star chart found on the ceiling in the stone chamber of the Kitora Tomb Asuka, located in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan was based on celestial
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