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Mohamad Othman remembers going on school trips to ancient archaeological sites in Syria.But never imagined one of them would one day become his home. This site is called Sarjableh, and a Christian ...
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 ]
The 1,900-year-old Roman ruins included several furnaces used for processing iron ore and other evidence of ancient metalworking, archaeologists said. Photos show the charred brown furnaces dug ...
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 ...
Slab City is located on roughly 640 acres (260 hectares) of public land, [9] near the east shore of the Salton Sea.It is 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of San Diego, 169 mi (272 km) southeast of Los Angeles and about 50 mi (80 km) from Mexico. [10]
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.
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 ...