Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Mirrors, mirrors, mirrors everywhere. The more mirrors Lucida Mansi had, the more she could admire herself. To say that she was vain is an understatement. Lucida was obsessed with her beauty and could not stand the thought of getting old. To prevent the process of aging, she did something horrifying. […]
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Excavations at the ancient Urartu fortress in eastern Turkey’s Van province will help to solve the mysteries of a 2,700-year-old temple. For the past three decades, archaeologists led by archaeology Professor Mehmet Işıklı from Erzurum Atatürk University conducted the excavations at the Ayanis Fortress that has been excavated continuously since
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -The lost kingdom of Urartu is shrouded in mystery and still very little is known about this ancient place and the origin of its people. A new archaeological discovery will shed more light on the Urartian civilization as its beginnings are lost in the mists of prehistory. Cavustepe, on the other
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Today Sahara is one of the hottest and driest places on Earth. It’s impossible for most living organisms survive for a longer period in this heat, but the situation was much different thousands of years ago. About 10,000 years ago, Sahara was a green was a lush savannah teeming with
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have long tried to explain purpose of Mesoamerican potbelly statues. Are they depictions of the ruling elite? Perhaps they were made to honor dead ancestors, or maybe they are portrayals of women giving birth? Magnetic scans performed on potbelly sculptures from Monte Alto, Guatemala, now housed in La Democracia, Guatemala,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ahram Online reports that underwater archaeologists discovered more secrets of the sunken cities of Heracleion and Canopus in Abu Qir Bay, in Alexandria. Archaeologists from the Egyptian-European archaeological mission led by Frank Goddio, Head of the European Underwater Archaeology Institute (Institut Européen d’Archéologie Sous-Marine) have uncovered the remains of a large
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Romans had humor, no doubt about it. While vising London about 2,000 years ago they brought back a pen as a gift. The pen had a joke inscribed onto it, but was the gift and the joke appreciated? The ancient Roman pen was discovered by archaeologists excavating in London,
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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 before him. As an example, we can mention that Zheng He or Cheng Ho, China’s greatest navigator (1371-1435), reached the North American continent before the European explorers
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In Colombian folklore, the Patasola (‘La Patasola’) is a female monster living on the summits of the plain. She has only one leg but can move with astonishing speed. People say they have seen her hopping on one leg over saws, through ravines, and across roads, crying out in sorrow.
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ur is one of the world’s oldest cities. What was life like for its inhabitants some 4000 years ago? During this year’s season at Ur, archaeologists focused on a residential building that was located on the edge of the city, and has been dated to the period around 1835 BC.
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