Monday, October 12, 2026

Category: History

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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
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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.

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Nijo Castle: The Shogun’s Golden Fortress and the Singing Floors of Kyoto

Not far from the serene halls of the Kyoto Imperial Palace stands a very different kind of residence, one built not for a reigning emperor but for the military ruler

A reconstructed gate of ancient Nineveh, once the great capital of the Assyrian Empire.
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Nineveh: The Terrifying Assyrian Capital That Held the World’s Oldest Great Library

Across the Tigris from the modern city of Mosul lie the ruins of Nineveh, once the greatest city on earth and the capital of the mighty Assyrian Empire. For a

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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

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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
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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
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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.

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Nubian Pyramids: Sudan, Not Egypt, Has the Most Pyramids on Earth

Sudan holds more pyramids than Egypt. Meet the kingdom of Kush, its warrior queens, the Black Pharaohs who once ruled Egypt, and the steep desert pyramids of Meroë.

The Imperial Castle of Nuremberg crowning its sandstone rock
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Nuremberg Imperial Castle: The Fortress at the Heart of the Empire

Many of the castles in this series are fairy tales, romantic fantasies built or rebuilt in the nineteenth century to look the way we imagine castles should look. The Imperial