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The name Nan Madol means "within the intervals" and is a reference to the canals that crisscross the ruins. [12] The original name was Soun Nan-leng, "Reef of Heaven", according to Gene Ashby in his book Pohnpei, An Island Argosy. [13] It is often called the "eighth wonder of the world", or the "Venice of the Pacific". [14]
The earliest excavations on the island of Santorini were conducted by French geologist F. Fouque in 1867 after some local people found old artifacts at a quarry. Later, in 1895–1900, the digs by German archeologist Baron Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen revealed the ruins of ancient Thera on Mesa Vouno, which date from the archaic period ...
Aleksandrovo ancient tomb; Aquae Calidae; Armira (Roman villa) Augusta Trayana (Roman ruins of modern Stara Zagora) Bacho Kiro cave; Castra Martis; Dionysopolis; Develtos; Diocletianopolis (modern Hisarya) Durankulak lake and island ; Ezero (tell) Heraclea Sintica; Ivanovo Rock-hewn Churches; Kabyle; Kaliakra; Karanovo (tell) Kozarnika cave
The Mantra archaeological site is located along the coast of Despotiko island, the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports said in an Aug. 21 news release. Excavations at the site began in 2001 and ...
Alberto Buzzola/GettyIn July 1997, I was fortunate to spend a few days among the Paiwan, an Aboriginal people in the south central highlands of Taiwan. I was in the country for typically academic ...
Sa Caleta is an archaeological site featuring the ruins of an ancient Phoenician settlement on a rocky headland about 10 kilometers west of Ibiza Town in Spain's Balearic Islands. The Phoenicians established a foothold in this area around 654–650 BC, and the site was abandoned by 600 BC. [ 1 ]
People first inhabited the island between 5,735 and 5,600 years ago, pushing their established time of arrival back between 290 and 850 years, according to a study published on March 12 in the ...
Antirhodos (sometimes Antirrhodos or Anti Rhodes) was an island in the eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, on which a Ptolemaic Egyptian palace was sited. The island was occupied until the reigns of Septimius Severus and Caracalla [1] and it probably sank in the 4th century, when it succumbed to earthquakes and a tsunami following an earthquake in the eastern Mediterranean near Crete in the ...