Tag: human achievement
The surprising truth about Damascus steel.
Damascus steel is the high-carbon crucible steel of the blades of historical swords forged using the wootz process in the Near East, characterized by distinctive patterns of banding…
Why Baghdad Battery still gets people talking.
The Baghdad Battery or Parthian Battery are the names given to an artifact consisting of a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron fixed…
Moai is not quite what it seems.
Moai or moꞌai are monolithic human figures carved from stone by the Rapa Nui people, on Rapa Nui in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500.
Why Great Zimbabwe still gets people talking.
Great Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Masvingo.
The real story behind Machu Picchu.
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft).
Why Skara Brae still gets people talking.
Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement located along the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney.
The simple version of Nabta Playa.
Nabta Playa was once a large endorheic basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel…
The surprising truth about Mohenjo-daro.
Mohenjo-daro is an archaeological site in the Larkana District of Sindh, Pakistan.
The surprising truth about Derinkuyu underground city.
Derinkuyu also known as Elengubu, is an ancient multi-level underground city near the modern town of Derinkuyu in Nevşehir Province, Turkey, extending to a depth of approximately 85…
Göbekli Tepe deserves a closer look.
Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) in modern-day Turkey.