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The entire treasury including its sculptural decoration is built of Parian marble. The date of construction is disputed, and scholarly opinions range from 510 to 480 BCE. [1] It is located directly below the Temple of Apollo along the Sacred Way for all visitors to view the Athenian treasury on the way up to the sanctuary. [2]
The Treasury of Atreus or Tomb of Agamemnon [1] is a large tholos or beehive tomb constructed between 1300 and 1250 BCE in Mycenae, Greece. [2]It is the largest and most elaborate tholos tomb known to have been constructed in the Aegean Bronze Age, and one of the last to have been built in the Argolid.
Gene Alloway reviewed Treasures of the Ancients in White Wolf #37 (July/Aug., 1993), rating it a 3 out of 5 and stated that "Though originally part of the Gamma World book in 3rd edition, Treasures of the Ancients is reasonably priced and well-done.
A necklace containing 2,930 diamonds including the world's seventh largest diamond, the 428 carat "De Beers", the Patiala Necklace vanished from the Royal Treasury of Patiala around 1948. Some diamonds were later recovered. Nelson's Chelengk: Confirmed 1951
Al-Khazneh The first glimpse of Petra's Treasury (Al-Khazneh) upon exiting the Siq. Al-Khazneh (Arabic: الخزنة; IPA:, "The Treasury"), A.K.A. Khazneh el-Far'oun (treasury of the pharaoh), is one of the most elaborate rock-cut tombs in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom inhabited by the Arabs in ancient times.
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 ...
An estimated 90 percent of human Amazonian history is lost within the jungle itself. A new discovery has uncovered a small-but-substantial piece of that history.
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.