All Ancient Pages articles related to North America in the sections of archaeology, history, civilizations, places, myths and legends, Biblical mysteries, ancient history facts, featured stories, ancient symbols and Vikings.
North America Archive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - First reports of the untraceable stone-throwers started to reach the public in the seventeenth century, but it’s possible the phenomenon is much older.
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we discussed the existence of a mysterious ancient European civilization that somehow doesn’t belong in this part
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Fredericka ‘Marm’ Mandelbaum didn’t believe in hard honest work. She wanted big money and fast. Her solution was simple. She opened a school
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many ancient European civilizations have been traced and their history has been documented. Based on discovered artifacts, buildings, scripts, etc. it’s possible to
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many who have visited the Hockomock Swamp in Southeastern Massachusetts, USA say it’s a creepy place. Strange unidentified lights, peculiar creatures lurking in
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - No one knows exactly where the term "Yankee" comes from but in the mid-1700s it was used by the English as an insulting
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Native American legend of the salt witch and her deadly encounter with a chief tells how Nebraska's great Salt Basin was formed.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stone tools and other artifacts unearthed from an archeological dig at the Cooper’s Ferry site in western Idaho suggest that people lived in the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Often called a freak of nature, Okefenokee is as strange as beautiful. Many years ago, one scientist interested in Okefenokee said there is
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many balancing rocks across the world. It's not always easy to determine whether an ancient structure is a natural formation or
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AncientPages.com - The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California was one of the most significant events in world history. On January 24, 1848, while inspecting
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Amish people in Pennsylvania are often misunderstood because of their somewhat unusual avoidance custom. The Amish avoid certain modern technologies, they don’t
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Today we know that Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover America. Many great explorers and ancient civilizations visited the continent long
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Hidden in the woods of Waterbury, Connecticut there is an adorable village of the Little People. The miniature village has a series of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Everything started in the middle of the night. There was no reason to suspect something unusual was about to happen, but it soon
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient underwater burial site off the coast of Florida, near the Venice shoreline can reveal valuable information about people who lived in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in eastern North Carolina were surprised when they came across an ancient tavern along with several mysterious tools that were buried beneath
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Jeramy Neugin - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting and dangerous creatures in Cherokee mythology. One of them is the raven mocker and another one is the body
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Maine have reason to feel excited. They have just excavated what is believed to be the oldest dugout canoe ever found
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ageing is a natural process, but many people have difficulties accepting they will become older and one day die. Using high-tech, modern people
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Jeramy Neugin - AncientPages.com - The Cherokee used the spirits of their ancestors as talismans of protection against harm. After the home was smoked, dirt from the family
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Jeramy Neugin - AncientPages.com - We used crystals as part of our way of life. Once, every Cherokee kept one. Wrapped in deerskin and hidden. It was their
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The modern city of Houston, Texas is named after General Sam Houston who led his troops to victory against Mexicans at the Battle
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - El Santuario de Chimayo is a sacred site located in the foothills of the Sangre de Christo Mountains in northern New Mexico. The
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Klallam people on the north side of Washington's Olympic Peninsula recall a great flood that in ancient times destroyed their homes. According to
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Among native Americans, the Apotamkin is a dangerous sea creature that lurks along the coast of Passamaquoddy Bay between the U.S. state of Maine
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Thomas Jefferson once said – “The greatest service which can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture,”
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Devil’s Tramping Ground in North Carolina is a mysterious place that many still avoid. Curious people who dared to visit this place report
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