Monday, September 21, 2026

Category: History

World history, mythology and Turkic history knowledge

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The Mnajdra temples set on a low bluff above the Mediterranean Sea
History

Mnajdra: The 5,000-Year-Old Maltese Temple That Tracks the Sun

On Malta’s southern coast stand the temples of Mnajdra, over 5,000 years old. One is aligned so precisely with the sun that it marks the equinoxes and solstices, turning stone into an ancient calendar.

Unicorn. Mold of Seal, Indus valley civilization
History

Mohenjo-daro: The 4,500-Year-Old City That Was Centuries Ahead of Its Time

Mohenjo-daro, one of the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, had grid streets, covered drains, and clean water more than 4,000 years ago — yet we still cannot read a single word its people wrote.

The Great Bath of Mohenjo-daro, the ceremonial heart of the ancient Indus city.
History

Mohenjo-daro: The 5,000-Year-Old City With Streets, Drains, and an Unreadable Script

On the banks of the Indus River in southern Pakistan lie the ruins of one of the world’s first great cities. Built nearly five thousand years ago, Mohenjo-daro was a

Mont Saint-Michel rising from its bay at low tide
History

Mont Saint-Michel: The Fortress-Abbey of the Sea

Rising like a vision from the sands where Normandy meets Brittany, Mont Saint-Michel is one of the most extraordinary sights in the world. A steep rocky island crowned by a

Main Plaza of Monte Alban with Building J and the North Platform, Oaxaca
History

Monte Alban, the Zapotec Capital Carved Into a Mountain

Built atop an artificially leveled mountain around 500 BCE, Monte Alban became the Zapotec capital of Oaxaca and home to some of the earliest writing found anywhere in Mesoamerica.

Monte Albán, the Zapotec capital, spread across a levelled mountaintop above the Valley of Oaxaca
History

Monte Albán: The Zapotec Capital on a Levelled Mountain

Above the city of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, on a mountain ridge that was artificially levelled to make room for it, spreads the ancient capital of the Zapotec people. Monte

History

Monument to Chuvashian rug bedizis

From what we see in our Pazyryk findings, until today, the Chuvash Turks have also used and continue to use the rugs and rock beds used by the Turks. Not

The colossal stone heads of Mount Nemrut, scattered before an ancient royal tomb.
History

Mount Nemrut: The Colossal Stone Heads of a King Who Would Be a God

On a lonely mountain summit in southeastern Turkey, more than two thousand metres up, a row of colossal stone heads gazes out over the surrounding peaks. These giant faces, toppled

The summit and statue terraces of Mount Nemrut in southeastern Turkey
History

Mount Nemrut: The Mountaintop Where a King Sat Among His Gods

Mount Nemrut is a mountaintop tomb sanctuary in southeastern Turkey where colossal statues of a king and his gods, carved over two thousand years ago, still gaze across the Anatolian

Lion Gate at Mycenae
History

Mycenae: Agamemnon’s Golden Citadel That Named a Civilization

For three thousand years the great stone lions above the gate of Mycenae have kept watch over an empty hill in the northeastern Peloponnese. They were carved when the citadel