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• Ancient Celtic Rite-Beltane festival,Scotland-Photo

  Posted on Wednesday November 14th, 2007 at 10:20 in ancient, beltane, celtic, festival, rite, scotland

  Red-painted, torch-wielding revelers parade and dance in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the raucous Beltane festival, an ancient Celtic rite that heralds the May 1 start of summer. The pop...

• Ancient Fire Temple Found in Peru-Photos

  Posted on Monday November 12th, 2007 at 12:53 in ancient, fire, found, in, Perú, temple

  November 12, 2007—A massive clay temple with colorful paintings and an altar for fire worship has recently been unearthed in northern Peru, archaeologists announced Saturday. Th...

• Canal Linking Ancient Egypt Quarry to Nile Found

  Posted on Monday October 29th, 2007 at 06:10 in ancient, canal, egypt, found, linking, nile, quarry

  Experts have discovered a canal at an Aswan rock quarry that they believe was used to help float some of ancient Egypt's largest stone monuments to the Nile River. Most ancient Egyptian stonework, lik...

• Tiwanaku,Ancestors of the Inca - Photos

  Posted on Tuesday October 9th, 2007 at 13:29 in ancient, city, inca, lake, near, shore, south, titicaca, tiwanaku

  Tiwanaku, one of the first empires in the Andes, displaced Pukara as the largest urban center in the basin. The first truly massive monumental structures of the Titicaca B...

• Japan's Ancient Underwater "Pyramid" Mystifies Scholars--Photos

  Posted on Tuesday September 25th, 2007 at 09:15 in ancient, japan's, mystifies, pyramid, scholars, underwater

  Stone formations resembling a step pyramid lie just off the coast of Yonaguni Jima, an island in Japan's Ryukyu archipelago.These structures are the ruins of an ancient city that sank beneath the wave...

• The Kings (Pharaohs) of Ancient Egypt

  Posted on Saturday September 22nd, 2007 at 08:58 in ancient, egypt, Kings, pharaohs

  The title of "Pharaoh" actually comes to us from the Greek language and its use in the Old Testament. It originates in the Egyptian Per-aa, meaning "Great House", a designation of the palace, which fi...