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Sailor’s Strange Discovery Of An Unknown Ancient Underground World At The North Pole
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Isn’t it fascinating to consider the possibility of countless ancient underground worlds yet to be discovered beneath our feet? Our understanding of these ancient subterranean realms remains limited. Archaeologists keep discovering enigmatic ancient caves once home to long-lost civilizations and astonishingly vast prehistoric underground cities. Our past still holds many secrets waiting to be revealed.…
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Rare Artifacts Found In Nottingham’s Mysterious Caves On Display For The First Time
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The exploration of caves and hidden underground tunnels offers an experience similar to stepping into a mysterious realm. One never knows what can be found along the road, which makes the journey even more fascinating. There are hundreds of caves and secret passages beneath the city of Nottingham in the UK. Nottingham caves. Credit: Adobe…
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Odd Monster Namazu ‘Earth Shaker’ Was First Feared By People And Later Worshiped As Luminous Deity Repairing The World
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In ancient times, people did not know the causes of earthquakes and other hazards. Therefore, the gods were most often responsible according to the people’s beliefs. Namazu-e (catfish picture). The deity Ebisu falls asleep while guarding the foundation stone (kaname ishi) for Kashima, allowing the Namazu to cause the quake that destroys Edo. Kashima (aka…
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Why Was Dementia Extremely Rare In Ancient Greece And Rome?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – When analyzing 2,500-year-old medical texts, scientists were surprised to discover dementia was hardly mentioned at all. Everything indicates memory loss was more or less unknown in ancient Greece and Rome. How can this be explained? Severe memory loss occurring at epidemic levels today was extremely rare 2,000 to 2,500 years ago, in the time of…
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Enormous Storegga Tsunami Wiped Out Communities In Stone Age Britain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Stone Age people must have been surprised and horrified when the gigantic water waves reaching 20 meters wiped out their dwellings. Some of the waves reached 20 meters, and few could survive. According to scientists, the enormous tsunami that hit Northern Europe and Britain wiped out many Stone Age communities about 8,000 years ago. Giant…
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Weapons Left By Barbarian Tribes Discovered In Polish Forest
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Lublin Provincial Monuments Conservator has announced a 15 iron weapons that probably belonged to Barbarian tribes who fought the Romans have been discovered in a forest near the town of Hrubieszów in eastern Poland. “We are most likely dealing with weapons used by barbarian tribes during the Roman Empire, perhaps with the Przeworsk culture,”…
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Mysterious Code Hidden In Antique Silk Dress Bought In Maine Finally Deciphered!
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Long considered impossible to decipher, we can now finally learn the truth about the mysterious code found hidden in an old silk dress in Maine, USA. The intriguing story started when Sara Rivers Cofield spotted a silk dress in an antique mall in Maine. Being an archaeologist who also also collects old dresses and handbags…
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DNA From 10,000-Year-Old Scandinavian Chewing Gum Reveals Stone Age Diet
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the early 1990s, excavations took place at Huseby-Klev, an early Mesolithic hunter-fisher site on the Swedish west coast, where a piece of ancient chewing gum was found. The masticates were made out of birch bark tar and used as glue in tool production and other types of technology during the Stone Age. However, at…
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Ancient Egyptian Tombs With Stunning Trove Of Artifacts And Human Remains Unearthed In Saqqara
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Saqqara necropolis in Egypt has revealed more of its ancient secrets. A remarkable 4,000-year-old tomb has been unearthed by the joint archaeological mission from Waseda University in collaboration with the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). Credit: Supreme Council of Antiquities Carved into the rock, the ancient tomb sheds new light on ancient Egyptians’ craftsmanship…
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Knaresborough Hoard Reveals Its Secrets – Unusual Roman Discovery In The British Isles
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have investigated one of the most unusual late-Roman metalware ever discovered in the British Isles. The Knaresborough Hoard was discovered about 1864, but no one has examined the treasure properly until now. The circumstances surrounding the find have been unclear. Experts have long debated the truth behind the Knaresborough Hoard. The Knaresborough Hoard. Credit:…
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