February 2018 – Ancient Pages – All About The Ancient World

Hidden Details Discovered In Picasso’s Painting The Crouching Woman

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AncientPages.com – Many famous artists had hidden secrets messages or other details beneath their paintings. One of them was world famous painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) who deliberately changed certain things during the painting process. Using an X-ray fluorescence imaging instrument researchers have discovered there is hidden information in Picassos’ painting “La Miséreuse accroupie”, (The Crouching […]

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Mysterious Bronze Age Viksö Helmets With Horns Related To Myths, Holy Animals And Divine Power

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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The mysterious Bronze Age Viksö helmets with horns were discovered in southern Scandinavia. Due to their impractical size and shape, these ancient helmets were not used in warfare. Instead, the Viksö helmets were deliberately made for various religious rituals. The elaborate carvings on the helmets carry symbolic significance, and the objects

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Mysterious Bronze Age Viksö Helmets With Horns Related To Myths, Holy Animals And Divine Power

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Tomb Of God Thoth’s High Priest Discovered In Ancient Egyptian Necropolis

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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 necropolis near the city of Minya, south of Cairo, Egypt. Credit: Reuters The burial shafts date from the late Pharaonic period to the early Ptolomaic era of

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Ancient Seal Offers First Biblical Evidence Of The Prophet Isaiah?

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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. The small seal discovered by archaeologist Eilat Mazar and her team carries an inscription that reads “[belonging] to Isaiah nvy.” This 2,700-year-old seal impression contains the Hebrew name for

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Fall Equinox Explains Unusual Alignment Of Egypt’s Great Pyramids – Engineer Says

Archaeology, News

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 “an accuracy of better than four minutes of arc, or one-fifteenth of one degree.” The Pyramid of Khafre, also located at Giza, and the Red Pyramid at Dahshur

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2nd Century Roman Temple Unearthed In Aswan, Egypt

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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 the Kom Al-Rasras archaeological site in Aswan, Egypt, reports Ahram Online. The temple bears the cartouches of a number of Roman emperors such as Domitian (81-96 CE),

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A cuirass known as a “tanko” and preserved in excellent condition, and a stone coffin, left, have been unearthed in Shibushi, Kagoshima Prefecture. (Provided by the Shibushi city education board)

1,500-Year-Old Tunnel Tomb With Human Remains And Artifacts Accidentally Unearthed In Japan

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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 Kyushu, reports The Asahi Shimbun. The tomb consisted of a burial chamber measuring about nine feet long, six feet wide, and three feet deep, and was connected

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Magnificent Trumpington Cross And Highly Unusual Anglo-Saxon ‘Bed Burial’ In Cambridge Offer Unique Insight Into English Christianity

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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 a superb cross was placed along her body. Credit: University of Cambridge Who the girl remained a mystery, but the precious gold cross she was buried with

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Ancient DNA Reveals Surprising Stories About Migrations And Genetic Mixing Of Our Ancestors

Archaeology, News

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 of genetic analysis that enables scientists to read the actual genetic code of our ancient ancestors. It gives insight into the movement of people and cultures across

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