enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of oldest extant buildings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_extant...

    1500 BCE Settlement In 2004, a number of skeletons were found buried in earthenware urns. Some of these urns contained writing in Tamil Brahmi script. While some of the burial urns contained skeletons. [102] In 2018, research on skeletons remains were dated at Manipur University to around 1500 BCE. [103] Su Nuraxi di Barumini: Italy Europe

  3. List of most visited palaces and monuments - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited...

    National monuments by visitors per year Name Country flag, city Visitors per year Year reported Notes The Forbidden City: Beijing: 17,000,000+ 2018 [1] St. Peter's Basilica-Apostolic Palace: Vatican City: 11,000,000: 2018 [2] [3] Palace of Versailles: Versailles: 8,100,000: 2018 [4] Lincoln Memorial: Washington, D.C. 7,804,683: 2018 [5] Forum ...

  4. List of national historic sites and historical parks of the ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_historic...

    The site details Poe's time in Philadelphia, where he wrote some of his most famous works including "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven". [33] Eisenhower: Pennsylvania: 690.46 acres (2.7942 km 2) Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States and Five-Star General, lived in this home from 1950 until two years before his death in ...

  5. List of national monuments of the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_monuments...

    A 1938 Works Progress Administration poster for Fort Marion National Monument, now called Castillo de San Marcos. The United States has 136 protected areas known as national monuments. The president of the United States can establish a national monument by presidential proclamation, and the United States Congress can do so by legislation.

  6. Ancient monument - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_monument

    Stonehenge is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments.. An ancient monument can refer to any early or historical manmade structure or architecture. [1] Certain ancient monuments are of cultural importance for nations and become symbols of international recognition, including the ruins of Baalbek on Lebanese currency, the Angkor Wat on Cambodian currency and the Great Wall of China on the ...

  7. List of the oldest buildings in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest...

    Designated a United States National Monument on October 15, 1924. [92] Amos Chase House Saco: ME c. 1743 Residential Oldest building in Saco. It was actually two houses, one of which was brought over on logs used as rollers, and joined to the other by the industrious Amos Chase to accommodate his large family. Mission Espada: San Antonio: TX ...

  8. 1500s in architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1500s_in_architecture

    c. 1500 – Chateau de Blois largely rebuilt. 1500 – St. Anne's Church, Vilnius is completed. 1501 Expansion of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh. Chichester Cross is built in Chichester, England. Construction of the Jerónimos Monastery at Belém (Lisbon) in Portugal begins; it will take 100 years to complete.

  9. Begazy–Dandybai culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begazy–Dandybai_culture

    Begazy-Dandybai culture (c. 1500-1100 BCE), [1] is a late Bronze Age culture of mixed economy in the territory of ancient central Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, centered at Saryarka region. The Begazy Dandybai Mausolea dates from c. 1350 –1150 BCE, [ 2 ] and was previously dated between the 12th and 8th centuries BCE, [ 3 ] or from ...