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Imhotep was a mythological figure in the Egyptian civilization but his genealogy remained unclear. He was known as a powerful chancellor to Pharaoh Djoser, a great architect, a physician, and…
The evolution of the Egyptian civilization bore evidence to the culture of different nations. First, it was seized by the Greek government and later fell to the Roman government, and…
Caesarion is not a name you normally hear during a conversation about ancient Egyptian history. Shaded by the fame of his mother and father, the name of the last Pharaoh…
Egyptologists were the happiest people in the world back in 2011 when an archaeological mission set with a completely different task located the remnants of an ancient port in the…
Which was the first written language? It sounds like a question with one neat answer, but the evidence is more interesting than that. People spoke languages for thousands of years…
Tenochtitlan was the Mexica capital built on islands in Lake Texcoco, at the centre of what is now Mexico City. Before the Spanish conquest, it was a city of canals,…
History remembers Hernan Cortes as the most ruthless of all Spanish conquistadors. Historians often criticize the inhumane methods of subduing the native population of Mexico and blame him for the…
More than seven thousands years ago, during a time when Arabia was not such a vast desert as it is today, curious people erected a series of mysterious stone monuments.…
One of the greatest mysteries of the ancient Aztec Empire is a great ancient treasure said to have belonged to Moctezuma II, one of the most prominent ancient Aztec Empire…
If you were to ask how many continents the Earth has, what would you say, 5 or 6? The correct answer is neither. There are eight continents on Earth, the…
There’s a massive rock fortress in the northern Matale District near the town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka. To climb it, it will take anywhere between 1.5…
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors built pyramids across the entire planet. It’s as if for some reason, different cultures, separated by thousands of miles and without communication decided to…
Many ancient cities around the world were mentioned in ancient texts but never found. Some of them are thought to have been no more than myths. Others are believed to…
Located in a sub-valley of the valley of Mexico lie the megalithic ruins of an ancient city shrouded in mystery. Home to massive pyramids reaching for the sky, Teotihuacan is…
The Great Sphinx of Giza is the most unique ancient statue in the world. Not only is it unique because of its mysterious, secret-filled shape, but also because of the…
There are countless megaliths scattered across the globe. The word megalith originates from two ancient Greek words: Megas, Great, and Litos, meaning Stone. It is used to refer to a…
Commissioned by Pharaoh Sneferu around 2,600 BC, the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur is one of the finest examples of pyramids in ancient Egypt, because it represents a transitional phase of…
Pyramids have been a passion of mine for quite some time. It’s maybe because I grew up in a country whose ancestors built some of the most impressive pyramids the…
The Land of the Pharaohs is beyond fascinating. Filled with ancient history, myths, legends, and incredible structures dating to a time before history was recorded, the lands once ruled by…
Throughout history, explorers, adventurers, and archeologists have spent lifetimes searching for long-lost places, legendary cities, and hidden treasures. While some of these expeditions have been a success, others were a…
The Great Library of Alexandria was ancient history’s most ambitious attempt to gather all known human knowledge in one place. From scientific breakthroughs to poetic masterpieces, it held hundreds of…
The Vatican Apostolic Library, one of the world’s most important research collections, is steadily moving a core part of its holdings onto the open web, digitizing fragile manuscripts and making…
A small change in a damaged line of text has revived an old argument about one of the Bible’s best-known construction projects: what Noah’s Ark was supposed to look like.…
The claim has been repeated so often that it now sounds like a fact: Jules Verne predicted the internet, video calls, submarines and spaceflight. Go back to the books and…