Machu Picchu: Inca site ‘has gone by wrong name for over 100 years’ - "Peruvian historian and US archaeologist say the pre-Columbian town was called Huayna Picchu by the Inca people." Mapped: All the world's 1,031 World Heritage Sites - The Telegraph. Marie Antoinette's Versailles apar...
even in their ritual side effects. In ancient Egypt, the beginning of the “chemo” season included the ceremony of the offering of the sheaf by the pharaoh: “presenting himself successively as protector and nourisher of
No other place in the world offers a more immersive experience of life in an ancient Roman metropolis than Pompeii. Buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago, the once thriving city’s villas, shops, temples, and baths remain frozen in time. The UNESCO-listed archa...
9. Amphoras, Sharm el Sheikh Discover the remnants of a historic wreck in the Amphoras.Photo credit:Frolova_Elena / Shutterstock Unleash your inner underwater archaeologist. In the south of Sharm el Sheikh,Amphorastakes its name from the large ceramic pots scattered along the seafloor: T...
— Photo by B. Kutner for Mercer Museum The towering castle that houses the Mercer Museum is full of themed rooms dedicated to the tools and crafts of American life before mechanization. Archaeologist, collector and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer founded the museum in 1916 to display his incr...