The photo above is the remains of the famous Ishtar Gate, unearthed during excavations in Babylon, Iraq in the 1930s. Below is the Ishtar gate on display at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The Ishtar Gate was built by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar about 2,500 years ago as the gateway to the city, in the name of the goddess of love and war, Ishtar (Inanna in Sumer). At the beginning of the 20th century, this magnificent work was dismantled brick by brick and taken to the Berlin Museum by ships and reassembled. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people flock to the museum to see this magnificent work.
Justin Marozzi tells the story of this once-mighty city in Iraq – a microcosm of human history. Besieged by wars and weather, ‘restored’ by Saddam Hussein, what has become of mystical Babylon?
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Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading is a library and lusophone cultural institution, is located in Luís de Camões Street, number 30, in the center of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is listed by the State Institute of Cultural Heritage. Elected the fourth most beautiful library in the world by Time magazine, the Cabinet has the largest collection of Portuguese literature outside Portugal.
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Calcagno family burial monument at Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy. A bronze masterpiece statue lying on the steps, deposing a last flower on the grave; the personification of sorrow. Work of Adolfo Apolloni in 1904.
Viếng thăm một trong những nghĩa địa trên thế giới ít nhiều cũng khiến bạn bị ám ảnh, bởi những bức tượng thiên thần khóc bên những bia mộ ảm đạm. Nghĩa địa nhìn chung là không đến nỗi đáng sợ khi…
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A Turkish homeowner chasing his chickens through a hole in his basement during renovations came across an abandoned underground Turkish city that once housed 20,000 people. Excavation work uncovered an incredible marvel of engineering, a network of tunnels and shelters 18 levels deep that went down 280ft (85 metres). This enormous underground city is thought to have begun life as a system of caves built back 1200 BC by the Hittites to shelter from the Phrygians, who then in turn further excavated the area and expanded the living space when they conquered the region. In later centuries it appears as though Christian inhabitants of the Roman Empire expanded the cave systems by adding more layers and including chapels, stables and places to make wine and olive oil. The underground city of Derinkuyu was a safe haven for the people living in the region on many occasions, with a long string of conquerors and occupiers marching through that part of the world.
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The Street of the Knights in Rhodes Island, approximately 200 years apart. On the historical street between the Palace of the Grand Masters and the port, there are inns belonging to the Hospitalier Sect.
Nếu là một tín đồ đam mê du lịch, bạn không thể bỏ qua những điểm đến đẹp ở Địa Trung Hải với cảnh sắc ấn tượng cùng vô số những trải nghiệm khó quên.
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2,800-year-old Pithoi discovered in Van Çavuştepe Castle. Urartian King II. Grain, oil and wine were stored in 120 pithos, each with a capacity of 300 kilograms, in the castle built by Sardur.
Excavation work has been continuing on Van’s Çavuştepe Castle, which dates back to the Urartian era and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the province. One of the recent discoveries in…
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Unveiling Yde Girl’s Enigma: Decoding the Timeless Secrets of a 2000-Year-Old Mystery
A fascinating discovery has birthed an ongoing historical mystery spanning thousands of years. Way back in May 1897, two labourers working in Yde in the Netherlands came across the excellently…
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Mummies of Museo de las Animas: An Impressive Collection Of Mummies
THE MUMMY MUSEUM IN THE small town of Encarnación de Díaz is a morbid collection that seems to have been ripped straight from the pages of famed Mexican writer Juan Rulfo’s gothic magical realist…
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Photo of alien Zeta Reticuli and a man, taken in 1947
In the quiet town of Roswell, New Mexico, in the scorching summer of 1947, an event occurred that would forever change the course of history. The incident, initially shrouded in secrecy, involved the…
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Most Valuable Museum Artifacts From Around The World
In every corner of the world and throughout history, civilizations have left behind traces of their existence in the form of artifacts. These remnants offer invaluable insights into their cultures,…
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