At its peak, the British Empire ruled a quarter of the world's surface and population, but it still isn't history's biggest empire.(Image: © Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)According to Guinness World Records, wh
The cast-bronze hilt and pommel of the sword are intricately decorated with engravings of circles and rows of crescent-shaped marks.(Image: © Silesian Museum, Czech Republic)A man searching for mushrooms in a forest in the Czech Republic found mu
Over 150 years after the first Pompeii victims were found, two more have been discovered.
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Proposed 3D visualization of the settlement at the islet of Dhaskalio. Credit: Greek Ministry of CultureKeros, the small, uninhabited Cycladic island south of Naxos, will be the subject of the first collaboration between The National Geographic and the Gr
Credit: Greek ReporterThe word “souvlaki” is synonymous with Greek food, whether the term refers simply to slices of grilled meat on a small wooden skewer or the soft pita bread stuffed with meat, tomatoes, onions,tzatziki sauceand French fries, which is
Archaeologists found two Stone Age skulls in Dehesilla Cave on the Iberian peninsula. One of the skulls (front) showed signs of a type of brain surgery called trepanation.(Image: © University of Seville)A Stone Age skull found in a Spanish cave b
Archaeologists in Siberia have unearthed a 2,500-year-old grave holding the remains of four people from the ancient Tagar culture —including two warriors, a male and female — and a stash of their metal weaponry.The early Iron Age burial contained the skel
Attackers may have timed the attack to coincide with a public gathering.
The brain cells turned to glass after being exposed to an avalanche of hot ash.
By the decision of the Fifth Meeting of the Coordinating Committee held in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) on December 4-5, 2018 the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) was elected the Secretariat of the Serial Transnational Nomination of th
A large number of goat bones and objects made from them have been found during the ongoing archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Aigai, whose history dates back to the eighth century BC.The relationship between goat species in ancient times an
Some 15 new god and goddess figurines have been found during ongoing archaeological excavations atKültepeKaniş/Karum Mound in the Central Anatolian province ofKayseri.Excavations started 72 years ago in the area called “Kültepe” due to its ashy s
Turkey’sCulture and Tourism Ministryhas finally managed to retrieve the nearly 1800-year-old Lydian temple stele, which it had been chasing for 23 years fromItaly.“The stele will be delivered to our embassy in Rome on Sept. 19 and will be brought back to
The rituals of the historical area ofGöbeklitepe, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, have become the subject of adocumentarytitled “The Residents of Göbeklitepe.”Defined as “the zero point of history” in the southeastern provinc
