Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – It is fascinating to think that a secret 5,000-year-old underground city could be hidden somewhere beneath Death Valley, California. Those who entered the subterranean
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Choquequirao (“Cradle of Gold” – Cuna de Oro” was the Inca’s last stronghold of resistance to the Spanish domain and a political, religious, and social center of
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The historical narrative of the Celts does not revolve around a singular ethnic group but rather encompasses the collective histories of various tribes
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Rök Stone (Rök Runestone), in Swedish, Rökstenen‘, is a remarkable 9th-century granite monument bearing the distinction of containing the longest runic inscription ever uncovered. The
Conny Waters – MessageToeagle.com – Peru is famous for being one of South America’s most significant rock art sites. The fascinating Toro Muerto, a desert gorge, is situated
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Pisidian people built the city of Termessos 1,050 meters above sea level, providing them a great advantage against possible attacking enemies. Rock-cut tombs along
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com –The ‘Valley of Thracian Kings’ is an extraordinary place with numerous burial mounds (tumuli) containing the Thracian rulers’ and high aristocrats’ tombs and graves.
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The ancient city of Susa (modern town of Shush, Khuzestan Province, Iran) remains one of the world’s oldest cities. It has been continuously inhabited
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Already three centuries ago (in 1726), John Toland wrote that brochs or the so-called ‘Pictish Towers’ “are apt all over Scotland to make everything
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Jiaohe (in Chinese: ‘where two rivers meet’) is considered one of China’s oldest, largest, and best-preserved earthen cities. It was built 2,300 years ago,
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – A place must not be of great size to have a long and rich history. Munkholmen is certainly proof of that. Located in the Trondheim
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The fascinating ancient Hittite sanctuary of Yazilikaya (‘rock with writing’) lies between rock outcroppings at the foot of the high ridge east of Hattusha,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Along the prominent Gila River at Butte, Arizona, lies Cochran Ghost Town and there are five very well-preserved beehive-shaped ovens standing in a row.
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Forgotten for millennia, the Kingdom of Mitanni was discovered in the nineteenth century, and excavations revealed fascinating facts about this unusual kingdom, which
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Petroglyphs and drawings in Gobustan are among the most ancient rock galleries in the world. They show many aspects of everyday life, customs, and
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – There is a mysterious ancient city of Djado located on the southern border of the Djado plateau in northeastern Niger. Once, there were several
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Many archeologists agree that cylindrical towers known as ‘chullpas’ (chulpas), which can be viewed at Sillustani, Cutimbo, and other places, are the work
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Celtiberians -tribes of mixed Iberian and Celtic origin – inhabited an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries BC. Credit: Adobe
A. Sutherland- AncientPages.com – The “Dwarfie Stane” is a remarkable ancient and massive piece of red sandstone. This 5,000-year-old block is surrounded by mystery, which has not been solved
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Many histories of Nottingham have been produced. People made their own observations and studied the city’s past. Yet others published information from other sources,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – A remarkable landmark, a surviving 14-meter ancient Roman Obelisk is located near the Veliko Tarnovo district village of Lessicheri in the North-Central region
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Early Maltese temples were egg-shaped and resembled the womb of the goddess of fertility. Later, from 4,000 to 3,000 BC, the Maltese built such
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Enigmatic Ales Stenar (in English, Ale’s Stones) are located high on the ridge above the old-fashioned fishing village of Kåseberga near Ystad, Sweden. Ales stones,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Ledberg Stone (Ledbergsstenen) is considered one of Sweden’s most beautiful Runestones. This landmark is also one of the country’s more familiar runestones due
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The 2,500-year-old Empuries (also Emporiae) site on the Costa Brava was built in 575 BC. It was a Greek and, later, a Roman colony
