February 2020 – Ancient Pages – All About The Ancient World

Secrets Of The Jungle And Hidden Ancient Treasures Of The Serpent People

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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Did an ancient superior civilization deliberately hide several cultural and scientific artifacts in deep, secret underground vaults? Are these ancient treasures from the ‘beginning’ of the world? An ancient scroll reveals the location of a dangerous place where priceless treasures are kept, but those who dared to search for the […]

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On This Day In History: Antonio Neri Was Born in Florence, Italy - On Feb 20, 1838

On This Day In History: Antonio Neri Was Born in Florence, Italy – On Feb 29, 1838

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AncientPages.com – On February 29, 1576 – Antonio Neri , a Florentine priest, was born in Florence, Italy. Neri was a glass maker, who conducted experiments with colored glass and imitations of precious stones. His results were published in 1612 in “L’arte vetraria,” or “The Art of Glass” – one of the first glass-making textbooks. Specola,

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The sword traveled from Trebizond to Venice in the second half of the 19th century, a gift from Yervant Khorasandjian, an art dealer and collector.

A 5,000-Year-Old Anatolian Sword Identified In Armenian Monastery In Venice

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 5,000-year-old Anatolian sword was identified in a monastery on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in the Lagoon City. A small sword – placed among several medieval items in a display cabinet – was accidentally found by Vittoria Dall’Armellina, a Ph.D. student at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice.

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Never-Before-Seen Ancient Frescoes Discovered Inside The Dormition Cathedral

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Originally erected in 1158 to 1160, the magnificent Dormition Cathedral is currently undergoing restoration work. It’s not the first time the church has been reconstructed, but this time workers discovered beautiful, never before seen ancient frescoes hidden behind the walls. The Cathedral of the Dormition, Moscow Kremlin. Credit: Vss, CC

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Pyramid Texts Of Ancient Egypt That Charted Journey Of Pharaohs Into Afterlife

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A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Pyramid Texts represent the oldest known collection of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions containing religious texts, elaborate spells (or utterances), hymns, prayers, thousands of lines of fragments of myths and legends, references to mortuary and funerary rites, historical events, festivals. There are also references to astronomical lore and cosmology (the king

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Built at the turn of the 7th century, the white plaster-coated road that began 100 kilometers to the east in Cobá ends at Yaxuná's ancient downtown, in the center of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Photos and drawing courtesy of Traci Ardren and Dominique Meyer/University of Miami

The 100-Kilometer-Long Stone Highway That Connected Ancient Maya Cities Revealed By LIDAR

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than 8,000 tree-shrouded structures of varying sizes along the sacbe (white road) – with enough total volume to fill approximately 2,900 Olympic swimming pools – have been identified by researchers using lidar technology. Built at the turn of the 7th century, the white plaster-coated road that began 100 kilometers

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Rare Ancient Leopard Painting Discovered On Sarcophagus In Egypt

Rare Ancient Leopard Painting Discovered On Sarcophagus In Aswan, Egypt

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egypt never ceases to amaze the world. This time archaeologists report the discovery of a beautiful, rare ancient leopard painting found on a wooden lid of a sarcophagus in the Aswan necropolis. To ancient Egyptians, the leopard was a symbol of strength and determination. Scientists say the leopard was

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Deir el-Meitin (© The Asyut Project; J. Kahl)- in the southern part of the Assiut necropolis.

Egyptian Necropolis Of Asyut And Funerary Culture That Dates Back To Old Kingdom

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – History of the ancient city of Asyut goes back about 4,000 years ago. Thousands of tombs carved into the rock and dating back from the Ancient Kingdom to the Roman Era attest to the rich history of the city. Deir el-Meitin (© The Asyut Project; J. Kahl)- in the southern

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Neanderthal-Denisovan Ancestors Interbred With ‘Superarchaic’ Population 700,000 Years Ago

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers, professor of anthropology at the University of Utah has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. Ancient Human Populations. Credits: Public Domain In 2017, Rogers led a study that found that two lineages of ancient

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A tip from a local Turkish farmer led archaeologists to this stone half-submerged in an irrigation canal. Inscriptions from the 8th century B.C. are still visible. Credit: James Osborne

Lost City That May Have Defeated King Midas’ Kingdom Phrygia – Found Accidentally

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A lost ancient kingdom dating to 1400 B.C. to 600 B.C., which may have defeated Phrygia, the kingdom ruled by King Midas, was discovered by archaeologists from the Oriental Institute. King Midas was the most famous almost legendary monarch of Phrygia. Based on contemporary Assyrian sources that date back between

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