It has for centuries been one of the world's greatest enigmas: how a Bronze Age society with little in the way of technology created Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza Ð the oldest and only survivor of the Seven
The project, meant to study flooding and coastlines, has provided a wealth of information for those trying to fill in the gaps. One history hobbyist, David Ratledge, who has spent 50 years sniffing out Roman routes, used the data to find a 17-kilometer (11 mi) stretch of road linking ...
uncertainty, and deep spiritual conviction. As the message of Jesus Christ spread beyond Jerusalem into the broader Roman world, it did so not only through preaching and teaching but also throughmiracles performed by His closest followers, the apostles. These signs and wonders were not simply displ...
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But who created these hidden wonders? Researchers now believe that members of the Sanxingdui civilization — a culture that collapsed between 3,000 and 2,800 years ago — made the artifacts. Archaeologists now know that the Sanxingdui once inhabited a walled city along the banks of the Minjiang...
In 1994 Empereur's divers located what he says are remains of the lighthouse that was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Destroyed by earthquakes in the 14th century, a Moslem fort was built on its foundations. In 1996, his team winched from the sea a colossal ancient Egypti...
wonders of the Blue Mosque, the Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, and more, this relatively small area of Istanbul somehow manages to retain an air of peace and calm. It offers visitors a significantly less celebrated but nonetheless pleasant network of quaint lanes and side streets...
Beyond the wonders of the Blue Mosque, the Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, and more, this relatively small area of Istanbul somehow manages to retain an air of peace and calm. It offers visitors a significantly less celebrated but nonetheless pleasant network of quaint lanes and side ...