Saturday, September 19, 2026

Category: History

World history, mythology and Turkic history knowledge

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The Great Hypostyle Hall of Karnak, its 134 giant columns raised at ancient Thebes.
History

Thebes: The Egyptian City of a Hundred Gates Where Pharaohs Buried Their Kings

On the east bank of the Nile in southern Egypt lies a stretch of ruins so vast that the ancient Greeks called it the city of a hundred gates. The

History

There are Turkmens in every corner of Syria, not just in Bayır-Bucak.

The smoke rising from Turkmen Mountain did not surprise the Turkish public a little. We had compatriots in Bulgaria, Greece and Iraq, but what was Syria? By the way, we

History

Those who arrived to fly a vineyard from Adana

We came down to the earth to fly THREE boxes appeared in sight We took a taste and salt from life We reached out to the Essence of Tengri Kürşad

History

THREE MOONS

“THREE MOONS Tuğu” in the script called “Horae Apocalypticae” published in the West in 1860. This Tuğ used by the Ottoman Empire is one of the derivatives of the three-headed

Panoramic view of the Great Plaza at Tikal with Temple I and Temple II in Guatemala
History

Tikal Rises From the Jungle in Towering Maya Temples

Tikal ruled the Peten rainforest for over a thousand years, building the Maya world’s tallest temples and rivaling Calakmul for regional power.

Temple I, the Temple of the Great Jaguar, rising above the Great Plaza of Tikal
History

Tikal: The Maya Metropolis That Rose Above the Guatemalan Jungle

Deep in the rainforest of northern Guatemala, in the region known as the Petén, six great temples pierce the jungle canopy like stone mountains. This is Tikal, one of the

The great mud-brick Djinguereber Mosque of Timbuktu, built in the fourteenth century.
History

Timbuktu: The Golden City of Salt, Gold, and a Half-Million Manuscripts

For centuries the name Timbuktu has stood, in the imagination of the outside world, for the most remote place on earth. The reality is even more remarkable: a city on

The Arch of Trajan, the monumental gateway of the Roman city of Timgad in Algeria.
History

Timgad: The Perfect Roman Grid City the Sahara Preserved for a Thousand Years

On the edge of the Sahara in eastern Algeria lie the ruins of Timgad, one of the most complete Roman towns anywhere in the world. Founded from nothing as a

The Gate of the Sun at Tiwanaku, a carved monolithic stone gateway in Bolivia
History

Tiwanaku: The Bolivian City Behind the Gate of the Sun

Tiwanaku is an ancient pre-Inca city near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, famous for its carved Gate of the Sun and the precise stonework of Pumapunku.

The Gate of the Sun, a monolithic stone doorway carved with a central deity at Tiwanaku
History

Tiwanaku: The High Andean Capital of the Gate of the Sun

On the windswept high plain of Bolivia, nearly four thousand metres above sea level and close to the shore of Lake Titicaca, stand the ruins of Tiwanaku. Here, in one