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Ancient Temple of Aphrodite Unearthed in Modern Turkey
... this region. Ruins still standing at Aphrodisias include columns from the ancient temple, plus the crumbing remains of ...
Nathan Falde - 05/01/2021 - 00:32
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Ancient Naval Base Discovered Underwater Near Athens
... And the sheds were monumental: the foundations under the columns were 1.4 by 1.4 metres, and the sheds themselves were ...
Mark Miller - 23/06/2016 - 00:42
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The Incredible World of Painted Skulls and Bone Houses
... and has artfully arranged bones covering the walls and columns of the chapel leading up to the altar and San ...
Sarah P Young - 31/05/2019 - 23:06
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The Magnificent Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara – Now Open!
... connected to the South Court via a roofed colonnade. The columns of this passage were made of limestone carved to ...
dhwty - 06/03/2020 - 22:55
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Is This a Huge Million-Year-Old, Man-Made Underground Complex?
... perfectly in some parts without cement, and the ceilings, columns, arches, gates, and other elements seem beyond the ...
ancient-origins - 02/05/2016 - 00:46
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The Ebers Papyrus: Medico-Magical Beliefs and Treatments Revealed in Ancient Egyptian Medical Text
... followed by text in black. The Ebers Papyrus contains 108 columns numbered 1-110. Each column contains from 20 to 22 ...
B. B. Wagner - 22/07/2019 - 14:02
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Is the 10,000-Year-Old Yonaguni Monument a Man-Made Marvel or Nature's Art?
... with flat faces and sharp, straight edges are the basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway and the natural staircase ...
Joanna Gillan - 29/12/2023 - 00:00
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The Lost Labyrinth of Ancient Egypt – Part 1
... the sacred enclosure, one found a temple surrounded by columns, 40 to each side, and this building had a roof made ...
Joanna Gillan - 13/01/2020 - 16:21
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Archaeologists unearth marble sarcophagus from ancient Thracian burial mound
... and may have been constructed in front of a façade, with columns on both sides. This may be related to the second ...
Robin Whitlock - 02/09/2015 - 21:12
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Glanum, An Ancient Roman Town in France Renowned for Its Healing Spring
... The upper portion holds a circular chapel with Corinthian columns and houses two statues wearing togas, presumably the ...
dhwty - 30/12/2020 - 23:22
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The Ancient City of Palmyra: The Pearl of the Desert
... looked like a typical Eastern temple, it also incorporated columns like those found in Roman temples. A digital ...
dhwty - 31/03/2016 - 14:51
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Unravelling the Mystery of New England’s Day of Darkness
... Fire, scientists explained that the fires produced columns of thick smoke that extended into the upper ...
aprilholloway - 16/09/2015 - 03:33
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Göbekli Tepe Shamans and their Cosmic Symbols – Part I
... In Sumerian mythology, sun god Utu stands between two columns which symbolize a gate; and the symbols are the sky ...
Ozgur - 16/01/2016 - 00:51
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Is This a Huge Million-Year-Old, Man-Made Underground Complex?
... perfectly in some parts without cement, and the ceilings, columns, arches, gates, and other elements seem beyond the ...
ancient-origins - 02/03/2016 - 14:45
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36,400 BC: The Historical time of the Zep Tepi Theory
... the buildings, characterized by colossal and mysterious columns, were built at the same time as the Pyramids and ...
Armando Mei - 28/01/2015 - 12:51
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Silphium, The Ancient Contraceptive Herb Driven To Extinction
As an institution of spiritual authority, the Catholic Church wields much influence over the attitudes and beliefs of millions of people around the globe. From scriptural doctrine to less refined codes of behavior, the Pope, of which there have been 266 over the last 2000 years, holds the power to inform the more than 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, or 2.18 billion Christians globally on the many aspects of Christian faith and behavior expected by the church hierarchy.
Martin Clemens - 06/05/2024 - 15:24
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Xerxes The Great: The Powerful Persian King Whose Death Destroyed an Empire
... are the Gate of All Nations and the Hall of a Hundred Columns. Yet, as a result of the failed Greek expedition, ...
dhwty - 13/04/2019 - 22:58
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Sicily: Where Cultures and Histories Converge and Giants Roam
... that building fell, and where there are fragments of half columns . Diodorus Siculus (an ancient Greek historian) had ... observed that a man can comfortably find a place in the columns’ grooves. The legend tells that to reach the summit ...
Daniela Giordano - 12/11/2019 - 01:57
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Saint Margaret’s Well: From Healing Pilgrimages to Alice in Wonderland
... overlapping a round molding, some dogs-tooth work and columns with carved capitals,” it has been suggested that ...
dhwty - 08/08/2020 - 01:58
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Native American Legends of Mount Katahdin: Home of Powerful Thunderbirds and the Lord of Storms
... passages published in 1864: Occasionally, when the windy columns broke in to me, I caught sight of a dark, damp crag ...
Jason Jarrell - 22/09/2018 - 18:54