Places of Interest
Below are our 15 articles in the 'places of interest' category:
Aksum is located 2,200 metres above sea level on a flat plateau deep in the interior of Ethiopia on Africa's horn. The ancient city wielded great influence over trade in agricultural produce, ivory ...
Survival in temperatures that fall below minus 60 degrees is not conducive to an expanding civilization and archaeologists remain hard pressed to understand the people who once flourished in the ...
The French town of Carnac lies on the south coast of Brittany. Scattered across the rolling landscape are hundreds of megalithic sites containing thousands of megalithic menhirs.
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Prophetic writings have always interested and intrigued people who long to take a glimpse into the future. Nostradamus is unquestionably ...
Ephesus is the grandest of the ruined ancient cities of modern Turkey’s antiquity. It was the most important city in the entire Roman province of Asia Minor. It is located on Turkey’s southwestern ...
For most archaeologists one characteristic that is peculiar in early Greek development is the city state system; an institution of flexible size and shape consisting of adult male citizens, women and ...
Greece has always been a powerful attraction to conquerors or visitors alike who remained captivated by her geographical charm and her claim to being one of the oldest civilisations in the western ...
The ancient Indus Valley was home to one of the world’s first great urban cultures. The Indus Valley Civilization flourished in a rich vast river plain and the surrounding regions are now known as ...
Nabta Playa contains numerous megaliths some still standing in their original positions and some having toppled over. The archaeological site of Nabta Playa is located approximately 70 miles west of ...
Nazca is a regional district of Peru some 200 miles south of Lima on the Pacific coast. In the Peruvian desert there lies an extensive plain between the Inca and Nazca valleys. Nazca is the name ...
As Admiral Roggeveen and his crew sailed in the lonely expanse of the South Pacific Ocean they came across a triangle of volcanic rock that was not on any of his maps. It is customary for explorers ...
The colossal size, its endurance for 4000 years and its mysterious symbolism certainly make Stonehenge Britain's national icon. Although researchers are still unclear as to its original purpose, it ...
The archaeological site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt is highly regarded as the most important grammatological location discovered in history. The site has yielded an enormous collection of papyri dating ...
An interesting Bronze Age burned mound was excavated at a gravel mining quarry north of Leicester, England. The site lays within an area of open parkland at the Watermead Country Park bounded by ...
The Roman Forum attracted commerce, trade, and general business as well as politics, plays, and prostitution where religious cult practices and the administration of justice were dispensed side by ...
