22 October 2022
Jordan’s mysterious ancient wall “Khatt Shebib”
The accomplishments of ancient civilizations are typically woefully underappreciated because we stereotype them as primitives who…
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Culture
8 October 2022
The World’s Largest Pyramid Is Hidden Within a Hill in Mexico
The largest and tallest pyramids in the world are incredible feats of design, engineering, and construction.…
10 September 2022
Contemporaneous with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia the Indus Valley Civilization city of ‘Mohenjo Daro’: Skilled urban planners with a reverence for the control of water
The Indus River Valley (or Harappan) civilization (3300-1300 BCE) lasted 2,000 years and spanned northeast Afghanistan…
4 September 2022
The Oldest “Book” of Europe: Derveni Papyrus
The Derveni papyrus is considered Europe’s oldest legible manuscript still in existence today. It is an…
31 July 2022
Incredible Mayan Inventions and Achievements
The Mayans excelled at agriculture, pottery, writing, calendars, and arithmetic, leaving an incredible quantity of spectacular…
12 July 2022
Venice of the Pacific: The mysterious Micronesian ruins of Nan Madol
Sometimes art and architecture challenge our perceptions of what was formerly thought to be feasible and…
12 July 2022
From Prehistoric Georgia ‘World’s oldest wine”
For many years in a row, wine has been a popular alcoholic beverage consumed worldwide. While…
12 June 2022
A Pagan cemetery belongs to the Late Roman Empire period in Istanbul
During the restoration of the ancient Sheikh Suleiman Mosque, which was restored as part of the…
17 May 2022
Bristol Redcliff Quarter’s outstanding medieval knife
In 2017 and 2018, Cotswold Archeology and Oxford Archeology, in a joint venture, undertook excavations ahead…
5 May 2022
Famous Celtic hero bust of the Czech Republic “The head of Mšecké Žehrovice”
Located in the Czech Republic, the Mšecké Žehrovice's head makes an appealing piece with its delightful…