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The city could accommodate up to 20,000 people and had amenities found in other underground complexes across Cappadocia, [2] [3] such as wine and oil presses, stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, and chapels. Unique to the Derinkuyu complex is a spacious room with a barrel-vaulted ceiling located on the second floor. It has been ...
Outside view Museum of Amphipolis (Basement). The Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis is a museum in Amphipolis, Central Macedonia, Greece.It is located in the archaeological site of ancient Amphipolis (a city founded in 437 BC), near River Strymon at close range of the Thessaloniki–Kavala national highway and within the walls of the ancient city itself.
Its floor has been carefully hewn out of the bedrock and smoothed, reminiscent of the terrazzo floors of the younger complexes at Göbekli Tepe. Immediately northwest of this area are two cistern-like pits that are believed to be part of complex E. One of these pits has a table-high pin and a staircase with five steps. [74]
When Polish islands start offering up clues to a 10 th century city, Viking scholars get excited, knowing that the potentially-real-possibly-mythical city of Jomsborg could be part of the equation.
The ancient al-Natah town with around 500 residents, covered about 1.5ha, and had a central district and nearby residential district surrounded by protective ramparts, according to the study ...
Through mapping 115 square miles with light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology, the team found evidence of a 2,500-year-old settlement (named Sangay) that could’ve been home to a ...
The Cellars of Diocletian's Palace, sometimes referred to as the "basement halls", is a set of substructures, located at the southern end of Diocletian's Palace [1] (now the southernmost part of Split's Old Town), that once held up the private apartments of Emperor Diocletian [1] and represent one of the best preserved ancient complexes of their kind in the world.
The submerged city of Pavlopetri (Greek: Παυλοπέτρι) is found in Vatika Bay, off the coast of southern Laconia in Peloponnese, Greece. It is about 5,000 years old, making it the oldest submerged city known in the world. [citation needed] Pavlopetri is unique in having an almost complete town plan, including streets, buildings, and tombs.