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The great stone ship of Ale’s Stones set on its clifftop above the Baltic
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Ale’s Stones: Sweden’s Great Stone Ship Sailing a Clifftop Above the Baltic

On a clifftop in southern Sweden, fifty-nine great boulders form a 67-metre ship of stone — the grandest of Scandinavia’s enigmatic Iron Age stone ships.

The Almendres Cromlech spread across a gentle Portuguese hillside
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Almendres Cromlech: Europe’s Oldest Stone Circle, 2,000 Years Before Stonehenge

On a hillside near Évora in Portugal stands the Almendres Cromlech, nearly a hundred granite stones raised around 6000 BC. Older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, it is Iberia’s greatest megalithic monument.

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An image from Kircaali Village Museum, Bulgaria

Image: Boyko Blagoev Dipçe: A total of forty thousand pieces are exhibited in the Kırcaali Village Regional History Museum, which also includes a work in the OZ structure made of

The Neolithic mound of Aşıklı Höyük rising above the Melendiz river in Cappadocia
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Aşıklı Höyük: The 10,000-Year-Old Village That Came Before Çatalhöyük

Centuries before Çatalhöyük, people in Cappadocia already built streetless houses entered through the roof, kept early sheep, and even performed brain surgery. Meet Aşıklı Höyük.

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Avars

Are Avars Turks? Avars are the second Turkish tribe that was largely influential in European history after the Huns. Indeed, although the Avars did not have great leaders like Attila,

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Başbuğ Gazi M.K. Rare images of Ataturk (300)

Başbuğ Gazi M.K. Rare images of Ataturk (300) 05 monday Oct 2015 Posted by Türk in Articles ≈ Leave a comment Tagsalbum, ataturk, chief, photo, veteran, gazi pasha, visual, mustafa kemal,

The stepped mound of Tumulus A rising from the Bougon necropolis
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Bougon: The 7,000-Year-Old Burial Mounds Older Than the Pyramids

In a quiet French valley stand the tumuli of Bougon, burial mounds raised around 4800 BC. Older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, they reveal how the first farmers honoured their dead in stone.

The Callanish stones standing in their cross-shaped setting on the Isle of Lewis
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Callanish: Scotland’s 5,000-Year-Old Stone Circle at the Edge of the Sea

On a windswept ridge in the Outer Hebrides, thirteen ancient stones ring a towering monolith — a 5,000-year-old monument tied to the moon and the far horizon.

Anfiteatro de Caral
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Caral: The 5,000-Year-Old City That Rose As the Pyramids Were Built

Caral, in the Supe Valley of Peru, is the oldest known city in the Americas — built with pyramids, sunken plazas, and clever earthquake-proof foundations at the very same time as the Great Pyramid of Egypt, yet with almost no sign of war.

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Caral: The Ancient Pyramids of the Oldest Civilization in the Americas

In a Peruvian desert, a lost civilization built pyramids at the same time as the Egyptians, with no contact between them. Inside Caral, the oldest known city in the Americas.