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The climate of the area was warmer and wetter when Göbekli Tepe was occupied than it is today. [15] The site was surrounded by an open steppe grassland, [ 15 ] with abundant wild cereals, including einkorn , wheat, and barley , [ 17 ] and herds of grazing animals such as wild sheep , wild goat , gazelle , and equids . [ 18 ]
Inside the 2,400-year-old structure, archaeologists found fragments of an even older temple, officials said. The older temple dated back to the sixth century B.C. Some disc-like ruins inside the ...
The ruins were discovered near Frauenwörth Abbey, which was founded around 782, according to officials. The initial surveys of the area were intended to identify a church belonging to the ...
Watercolour painting of the temple ruins by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros, 1778 Engraving of the temple made in 1848 Residents and travelers knew about the existence of the temple for a long time. In the late 18th century, before any excavations were carried out, Jean-Pierre Houël drew a plan based on that knowledge, which has been found to be ...
Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history.The mansion was named after a nearby sandy spit at the southern end of the island, first recorded in a land grant petition in 1765 and almost certainly named after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England.
A house found in Old Smyrna with two floors and five rooms with a courtyard, built in the second half of the 7th century BC, is the oldest known house having so many rooms under its roof. Around that time, people started to build thick, protective ramparts made of sun-dried bricks around the city.
A trove of 1,800-year-old ceramics was also unearthed from two pits at the site, archaeologists said. Ruins of 800-year-old settlement unearthed in France. See the unprecedented discovery
Tanis is unattested before the 19th Dynasty of Egypt, when it was the capital of the 14th nome of Lower Egypt. [9] [a] A temple inscription datable to the reign of Ramesses II mentions a "Field of Tanis", while the city in se is securely attested in two 20th Dynasty documents: the Onomasticon of Amenope and the Story of Wenamun, as the home place of the pharaoh-to-be Smendes.