This Bronze Age Highway Has The World’s Oldest Bridges That Are Still In Use Today
All the bridges belong to the same Bronze Age highway that linked Mycenae, Tiryns, Tolo and Epidaurus, and all of them have a similar design …
Category: Ancient History
1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet, from El Perú-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala
May 11, 2021 – If you thought your vintage-era Star Wars action figures (1977-1985) were old and valuable, they pale in comparison to a group …
Karshahi Castle, the Biggest adobe Castle in Iran
Covering an area of more than 4000 m2, it is the biggest adobe castle in Iran, after Arg-e Bam destruction in 2003, registered on Iran …
Study Puts Century-Old Theory About Stonehenge Into Question
The Altar Stone is a purplish-green sandstone that sits among the makeup of Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. For …
The Galactic Disk: An Artifact Hinting at Lost Civilizations or Extraterrestrial Guidance?
Housed in Peru’s metropolitan museum rests a baffling relic known as the “Galactic Disk”. Despite the tremendous strides in science and technology, the origin and …
Details of the back of a terracotta warrior’s footwear, in China, Qin Dynasty.
An analysis of the sculpted shoes on the statues in China’s Terracotta Army, which dates back about 2200 years, suggests that their real-life soldier equivalents …
A 5,000-year-old mystery: recording rock art within the Dolmen de Soto
The Dolmen de Soto from above, showing both the low earth mound covering the megalithic corridor, and the reconstructed entrance way beside the portal, which …
The Street of the Knights in Rhodes Island, approximately 200 years apart.
The Street of the Knights in Rhodes Island, approximately 200 years apart. On the historical street between the Palace of the Grand Masters and the …
Vatican experts uncovering gilded glory of Hercules statue struck by lightning
Vatican Museum restorer Alice Baltera works on the bronze Hercules statue, in the Round Hall of the Vatican Museums, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Work will …
Purpose of Egypt’s Great Pyramid ‘uncovered’ by mysterious lost structures
An ancient Egyt expert may have uncovered why the Great Pyramid of Giza was built and what its purpose was, perhaps answering a mystery that …