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The blocks known as the Trilithon (the upper of the two largest courses of stone pictured) in the Temple of Jupiter Baal. The Trilithon (Greek: Τρίλιθον), also called the Three Stones, is a group of three horizontally lying giant stones that form part of the podium of the Temple of Jupiter Baal at Baalbek. The location of the megalithic ...
Stone blocks at Pumapunku. Pumapunku or Puma Punku (Aymara and Quechua 'Gate of the Puma') is a 6th-century T-shaped and strategically aligned man-made terraced platform mound with a sunken court and monumental structure on top. It is part of the Pumapunku complex, at the Tiwanaku Site near Tiwanacu, in western Bolivia. The Pumapunku complex is ...
The second-largest stone block found within the Pumapunku is estimated to be 85 metric tonnes. [17] [18] Scattered around the site of the Puma Punku are various types of cut stones. Due to the complexity of the stonework the site is often cited by conspiracy theorists to be a site of ancient alien intervention. These claims are entirely ...
Cobá took its place in Maya culture no earlier than 100 B.C., and enjoyed a continuous life as a city until about 1,200 A.D. Known as the “city of chopped water,” the site may have had up to ...
Blocks Baalbek, Lebanon: Roman Empire: Plus about 24 blocks 300 tons each [24] 700 t each Colossi of Memnon (2×) Statues Thebes, Egypt: Ancient Egypt: Transported 420 miles (680 km) from el-Gabal el-Ahmar (near modern-day Cairo) over land without using the Nile. [22] [25] 520 tons, 170 tons, and 160 tons Great Stele, King Ezana's Stele ...
The site is at the edge of the Western Desert, approximately 9 km (5.6 mi) west of the Nile River in the city of Giza, and about 13 km (8.1 mi) southwest of the city centre of Cairo. It forms the northernmost part of the 16,000 ha (160 km 2 ; 62 sq mi) Pyramid Fields of the Memphis and its Necropolis UNESCO World Heritage Site , inscribed in ...
Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago, according to a paper published Thursday, Jan. 11 ...
The waters of the Mosul dam – located near Kemune in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region – relinquished an ancient city, a team of German and Kurdish archaeologists announced May 30 in a news ...