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
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In England, there are many ancient places shrouded in mystery. In a desolate Cornish landscape, some mysterious ancient caves are still left. These caves
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Rök Stone (in Swedish, Rökstenen‘) is the 9th-century memorial granite block covered with the longest runic inscription ever discovered. The 4-ton stone is located
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
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The prehistoric ruins of the Din Lligwy settlement have a long history spanning three eras. It is a fascinating place located on the
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Not far from Brittany’s medieval town Dol, the menhir of Champ Dolent has its location. It’s northern Brittany’s most potent megalithic landmark among
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – This tomb, usually called Neolithic gallery grave, represents one of the most widely known, largest, and best-preserved Neolithic dolmens in Brittany. Its English name
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One of the most extraordinary archaeological discoveries of recent times was the uncovering of the so-called Seahenge off the north coast of Norfolk,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – There is a vast network of neolithic tunnels crisscrossing several European countries, built millennia ago. The underground tunneling system. The underground city of Orvieto,
