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The ruins of the city were explored by the Chorasmian Expedition under the guidance of Sergey Tolstov in 1938. [1] The date of the palace has been determined by the discovery of coins of the Kushan Empire rulers Vima Kadphises and Kanishka , as well as coins of the Khwarazmian king Artav (Artabanus). [ 5 ]
The Tower was thought to be originally being dedicated to Saint George. [1] This tower, located outside the monastery walls, remains partially preserved today, with ruins reaching up to four or five meters in height, along with sections of the surrounding wall.
Skull Tower (Serbian Cyrillic: Ћеле кула, romanized: Ćele kula, pronounced [tɕel̩e kula]) is a stone structure embedded with human skulls located in Niš, Serbia. It was constructed by the Ottoman Empire following the Battle of Čegar of May 1809, during the First Serbian Uprising .
The Ruin Tower (Russian: Башня-руина) is an 18th-century monument in Ekaterininsky Park [1] of Tsarskoye Selo - now Pushkin, a suburban town in eponymous borough of St. Petersburg, Russia. It was designed and constructed in 1771-1773 by German-Russian architect Yury Felten .
Somali architecture is the engineering and designing of multiple different construction types such as stone cities, castles, citadels, fortresses, mosques, temples, aqueducts, lighthouses, towers and tombs during the ancient, medieval and early modern periods in Somalia and other regions inhabited by Somalis, as well as the fusion of Somalo-Islamic architecture with Western designs in ...
The wall begins near the mouth of Kelasuri and ends on the right bank of Enguri. The wall begins near the mouth of Kelasuri River where the ruins of a large tower remained. . It goes to the east crossing Kodori River near Tsebelda fortress, then passes near Tkvarcheli and terminates near the village of Lekukhona on the right bank of Engu
A Neo-Babylonian royal inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II on a stele from Babylon, claimed to have been found in the 1917 excavation by Robert Koldewey, [5] and of uncertain authenticity, reads: "Etemenanki [6] Zikkurat Babibli [Ziggurat of Babylon] I made it, the wonder of the people of the world, I raised its top to heaven, made doors for the gates, and I covered it with bitumen and bricks."
Ayaz Kala 1 is a fortress dating back to end of the 4th or beginning of the 3rd century BCE. In this time Khorezm had become independent from Persia.Ayaz Kala 1 was part of a chain of fortresses protecting the agricultural settlements from attacks by nomads.