Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Category: History

World history, mythology and Turkic history knowledge

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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

Nan Madol basalt walls rising above tropical vegetation
History

Nan Madol: The Ancient City Built on a Coral Reef in the Middle of the Pacific

On a flooding reef off Pohnpei, Pacific islanders raised a stone city of 92 artificial islets and 750,000 tonnes of basalt. Meet Nan Madol, the astonishing “Venice of the Pacific.”

Portrait of Napoleon
History

Napoleon: The Corsican Who Conquered a Continent

Few human lives have bent the course of history as sharply as that of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the space of barely twenty years, an obscure young officer from the island

Model of the Nevalı Çori excavation site before it was flooded by the Atatürk Dam
History

Nevali Cori: The Neolithic Shrine That Rivaled Gobekli Tepe

Nevali Cori is a Neolithic settlement in southeastern Turkey where carved stone pillars and a polished shrine floor, built nearly 11,000 years ago, now sit underwater.

History

NEW YEAR IN TURKS – NARDOGAN DAY

Nardugan is a New Year holiday in old Turks. Pomegranate sun, dugan, tugan rising nardugan rising sun means “the rebirth of the sun” in Turks. Nardugan is celebrated every year

Newgrange passage tomb, County Meath, Ireland
History

Newgrange: The 5,000-Year-Old Tomb Built to Catch the Solstice Sun

Older than the pyramids and Stonehenge, this Irish passage tomb was built so that on the winter solstice, the rising sun pours down a stone passage and lights its hidden chamber. Inside the wonder of Newgrange.

History

No condition can hinder Turkish unity!

Turkish unity is the order of creation; It is the command of Turkish lineage, Turkish blood, Turkish gene; It is the order of history. No event, no object and no

History

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Aziz SANÇAR said, “I am a Turk, that’s all!”

“Are you Arab?” “No, I’m a Turk, that’s all!” Aziz Beg replied, “For us, it is not only in the field of science; “He is the ONLY Turk who received

Aerial view of the Great Serpent Mound effigy earthwork in Ohio
History

Nobody Agrees Who Built Ohio’s Great Serpent Mound

Ohio’s Great Serpent Mound winds for a quarter mile atop an ancient impact crater, and archaeologists still debate who built it and why.

Satellite image of L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland
History

Norse Explorers Reached Canada 500 Years Before Columbus

L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is the only confirmed Norse site in the Americas, dated precisely to the year 1021 CE.