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Tomb Oldest large-scale cut stone construction [70] Luxor Temple: Luxor, Egypt: 1400 BCE Religious The oldest standing building partly in use. There is an active mosque within the main structure, visible in the picture, that stands on the ancient pillars of the Egyptian temple. Sanchi Stupa: India: 300 BCE Buddhist temple Oldest extant Buddhist ...
Kasta tumulus and Amphipolis location map Kasta tumulus – view from Amphipolis. The Kasta Tomb (Greek: Τύμβος Καστά), also known as the Amphipolis Tomb (Greek: Τάφος της Αμφίπολης), is the largest ancient tumulus (burial mound) ever discovered in Greece, and by comparison dwarfs that of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, in Vergina.
Location of Tomb: Article: K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' Maya ruler (ruled 426 – c. 437) – named in Maya inscriptions as the founder and first ruler of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization polity centered at Copán Copán in Mexico: Hunal tomb inside of Temple 16 in the Copán acropolis; [7]
The stone tomb, which is about 5,000 years old, was unearthed during an excavation in Orkney, an archipelago in Scotland’s Northern Isles, according to an Oct. 24 news release from the National ...
An archaeologist looks at a sarcophagus found in the tomb of King Tutankhamen in the 1920s. Like many ancient Egyptian pharaohs, King Tutankhamen’s tomb was carefully filled with items for the ...
A recently discovered 7th century BC tomb contained a treasure trove of over 150 ancient artifacts, including the remnants of two chariots, in addition to the remains of its long-deceased occupant ...
The large quantity of diagnostic pottery found in the Aegisthus tomb, including broken LH II vessels found partly in the dromos and partly in the thalamos, allowed Wace to confidently date the tomb to early LH IIA, [45] and so to argue that it represented the transition between the 'first group' and the 'second group' — in particular, that ...
The tomb was partially discovered nearly 160 years ago but was lost in the sand until now. 4,400-year-old tomb — with a preserved mummy inside — unearthed in Egypt. Again