Culture

A Pilgrimage to Fatima: Candlelight, Rosary and the Shepherd Children

Source: Pixabay A visit to Fátima is shaped by its rhythms of prayer, its great gatherings and the simple, moving devotions of ordinary pilgrims. Like Lourdes, it is above all

Culture, Travel

A Pilgrimage to Lourdes: Processions, Healing and Hope

Source: Pixabay What sets Lourdes apart from many pilgrimage sites is its atmosphere of compassion. Above all, it is a place of the sick and those who care for them,

History

A Six-Thousand-Year-Old Village Where China’s Neolithic Women May Have Ruled the Household: The Story of Banpo

Six thousand years ago, on a terrace above the Chan River in what is now Xi’an, a farming community built roughly a hundred houses around a large central hall, ringed

In Life

A Story About Mother’s Day

It has been 26 years since my military friend Dan and I packed our portable cooler, shorts and t-shirts cut from old jeans into his metallic blue car and passed

History

A Town of Thousands With No Streets, Where the Dead Slept Beneath the Living: The Story of Çatalhöyük

On a plain in central Turkey, beneath twin mounds of accumulated mudbrick, lies one of the most important and enigmatic settlements ever built: a Neolithic town of thousands of people

This is an illustration of what a longhouse in the Sannai Maruyama settlement would have looked like during the Jomon pe

History

A Village of Hunter-Gatherers That Lasted 1,500 Years: The Story of Sannai-Maruyama

In the far north of Japan, a people who never farmed in the usual sense built a village of thousands, raised towering timber pillars, made some of the world’s oldest

History

Abakan / Khakassia history museum images

Abakan / Khakassia history museum images 18 Sunday Oct 2015 Posted by Türk in Articles, Turkish Bengustones and some Turkish Inscriptions ≈ 1 Comment Tagsabakan, khakassia, museum, history, Turkish