Friday, September 25, 2026

Category: History

World history, mythology and Turkic history knowledge

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Aerial view of the Gavrinis cairn on its small island in the Gulf of Morbihan
History

Gavrinis: The 6,000-Year-Old Carved Passage They Sealed in the Dark

On a drowned Breton island stands Gavrinis, a Neolithic passage tomb whose walls are almost entirely covered in swirling carvings — an artistic masterpiece created around 4000 BCE and then sealed away.

The coral-stone ruins of Gedi, a medieval Swahili town on the coast of Kenya.
History

Gedi: The Swahili Town Swallowed by the Kenyan Forest and Mysteriously Abandoned

Hidden in a coastal forest near the shore of the Indian Ocean in Kenya lie the ruins of Gedi, a once-thriving Swahili town that was mysteriously abandoned and left to

The massive facade of the Ġgantija temples rising above the Gozo countryside
History

Ġgantija: The Giant Temples of Gozo, Older Than the Pyramids

On the Maltese island of Gozo stand the Ġgantija temples, raised around 3600 BC. Among the oldest freestanding structures on Earth, their giant stones were said to be the work of giants.

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Gnyozdovo: Where Vikings and Slavs Met on the Road to Byzantium

On the Dnieper near Smolensk, Gnyozdovo was a key hub on the Viking trade route to Byzantium, where Scandinavian and Slavic worlds fused at the dawn of early Rus.

The great T-shaped stone pillars of Gobekli Tepe, the world's oldest known temple.
History

Gobekli Tepe: The World’s Oldest Temple, Built by Hunter-Gatherers Before Farming

On a hilltop in southeastern Turkey stands a monument that has rewritten the story of human civilisation. Gobekli Tepe is the oldest known temple in the world, built around eleven

Göbekli Tepe, Şanlıurfa, Turkey
History

Göbekli Tepe: The World’s Oldest Temple and How It Rewrote History

Built roughly 11,500 years ago by hunter-gatherers in southeastern Turkey, Göbekli Tepe is older than farming, writing and the pyramids — and it changed how we understand the dawn of civilization.

Ancient petroglyphs carved into rock at Gobustan
History

Gobustan: Forty Thousand Ancient Carvings Above the Caspian

On a stretch of rugged, semi-arid land not far from the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan lies one of the most extraordinary open-air galleries in the world. Here, among a chaos

Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, India - lead
History

Golconda Fort: The Fortress of Diamonds

Rising from a great granite hill on the outskirts of the city of Hyderabad, in the Deccan plateau of southern India, the mighty ruined fortress of Golconda is one of

Golubac Fortress
History

Golubac Fortress: The Guardian of the Danube at the Iron Gates

Where the mighty Danube, the great river of central Europe, narrows dramatically to force its way through the mountains, there stands one of the most magnificent fortresses in all of

Aerial view of the citadel mound at Gordion
History

Gordion: Where the Real King Midas Lies Beneath a Great Mound

Out on the dry central plateau of Anatolia, where the Sakarya River winds through low hills and wheat fields, a great flat-topped mound rises above the plain like an artificial