Egypt’s exquisite temples that had to be moved
Deep within the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, carved into a mountainside in southern Egypt’s ancient Nubian Valley, lies a vast, wondrous …
Month: January 2024
Egypt exposed: Historian makes bombshell Great Pyramid find in ancient papyrus
Egypt exposed: Historian makes bombshell Great Pyramid find in ancient papyrus EGYPT’S Great Pyramid of Giza may not have been the only thing built for …
The Yakhchāl was an ancient Persian “refrigerator” that stored food and even ice long before electricity was invented
In case someone ever tries to argue that ancient human civilizations were less advanced when compared to modern-day humanity, we’ve gathered some examples in …
Bird Headed Beings in Mythology
Bird Headed Gods or Entities in Mythology always represent rebirth and resurrection. Pictographs on stone walls depict God type entities, or extraterrestrial beings, that have …
Turkey’s underground city of 20,000 people
Violent gusts whipped loose soil into the air as I hiked through Cappadocia’s Love Valley. Pink- and yellow-hued hillsides coloured the rolling landscape scarred with …
Maya Underworld: Peek Inside the World’s Longest Flooded Cave
Exploring an underworld (Image credit: Karla Ortega/GAM) Divers enter the flooded underworld that lies beneath the Yucatán Peninsula. Cave explorers with the Great Maya Aquifer …
The Oldest Known Globe to Depict the New World Was Engraved on an Ostrich Egg, Maybe by Leonardo da Vinci (1504)
Every time you think you’ve got a handle on Leonardo da Vinci’s genius (which is to say, you think you’ve heard about the most important …
“Colossus of the Apennines” by Giambologna
“Colossus of the Apennines” “Colossus of the Apennines” is a large, fantastical sculpture that was made by the Flemish Mannerism, or Late Renaissance sculptor, Giambologna, …
Hundred Years Ago, the Rosetta Stone Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Egypt
French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822 The key to this centuries-old dilemma was an unassuming slab of …
Iran’s Tandooreh National Park: An Attractive Place for Ecotourism
Iran’s Tandooreh National Park: An Attractive Place for Ecotourism TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Tandooreh national park is located at Dargaz in Khorasan Razavi province, northeast of …