Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Category: History

World history, mythology and Turkic history knowledge

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Overview of the Mehrgarh archaeological site on the Kacchi plain in Balochistan
History

Mehrgarh: The 9,000-Year-Old Village Where South Asia Learned to Farm

Before Mohenjo-daro or Harappa, there was Mehrgarh: a 9,000-year-old village in Pakistan where people first farmed, made pottery, worked copper, and even practiced dentistry.

Cliff Palace cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park
History

Mesa Verde: The Ancestral Puebloan Cliff City

Mesa Verde in Colorado holds North America’s finest cliff dwellings, including Cliff Palace and Balcony House, built by Ancestral Puebloan farmers between 1190 and 1280 CE.

The excavated ruins of the ancient site of Metsamor
History

Metsamor: Armenia’s Bronze Age Metal Center Beneath Mount Ararat

On the broad plain west of Yerevan, within sight of the snow-capped peak of Mount Ararat, rises a modest hill that holds one of the oldest and most fascinating archaeological

The great theater of Miletus rising above the ancient city
History

Miletus: The Ionian Port That Gave Greece Its First Philosophers

Stand today in the ruins of Miletus and you will notice something odd for a place that was once one of the greatest ports in the Greek world: there is

Geometric stone fretwork courtyard at the Palace group of Mitla in Oaxaca Mexico
History

Mitla Was a Zapotec City Built for the Dead

Mitla served as a Zapotec sanctuary for the dead, famed for mosaic stone fretwork found nowhere else and priests who outranked kings.

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.

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.

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 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