Tenochtitlan: 10 Facts About the Ancient Aztec Capital You Probably Didn’t Know
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Tenochtitlan, the great capital of the Mexica (as the Aztecs referred to themselves), became one of the most important cities…
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11 Things You Should Know about Hernan Cortes: The Conqueror of the Aztecs
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History remembers Hernan Cortes as the most ruthless of all Spanish conquistadors. Historians often criticize the inhumane methods of subduing…
5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Moctezuma’s Cursed Lost Treasure
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One of the greatest mysteries of the ancient Aztec Empire is a great ancient treasure said to have belonged to…
Uncanny Similarities Between Ancient Deities In Unconnected Civilizations
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The history of the development of civilization on Earth is far from understood. There are missing links wherever we look….
10 Ancient and Lost Cities in History You Probably Didn’t Know About
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Throughout our planet’s long history, countless civilizations have risen and fallen. Yet, they left a mark in antiquity by building…
Archaeologists Excavate 3,200-Year-Old Chinese Figurine That Resembles a Character from the Angry Birds Game
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Archeologists have discovered an odd ancient Chinese figurine that strangely resembles one of the characters (the green pig) from the…
Researchers Find Oldest Viking Settlement In Iceland, Rewriting History
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A group of researchers believes it has discovered what is now considered the oldest known Viking settlement in Iceland, and…
Here’s How The Largest Pyramid on Earth Dwarf’s Ancient Egypt’s Great Pyramid
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Thousands of years ago, ancient civilizations across the world started building pyramids. Built throughout history, the oldest pyramids are believed…
What You Probably Didn’t Know About Ollantaytambo
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Some 90 kilometers from the present-day city of Cuzco in Peru lay the remains of one of South America’s most…
Italy’s Atlantis: The Ghost Town Beneath 34 Million Cubic Meters of Water
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There’s a medieval “ghost town” in Italy’s stunning Toscana region that’s dubbed the Italian Atlantis. Located at the bottom of…
3 Ancient Egyptian Cities That Predate Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid by Thousands of Years
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Long before the most impressive pyramids were erected in Egypt, a powerful, prosperous civilization developed. It is usually acknowledged that…
Multi-Ton Stones: Here Are 5 of the Largest Stones Moved in Ancient Egypt
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No matter where we look, we will find mind-boggling structures built by ancient civilizations thousands of years ago. Some of…
21 Stunning Aerial Images of Ancient American Pyramids
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Thousands of years ago, humankind built pyramids across the globe. Nearly everywhere we decide to look; eventually, we will come…
13 Photographs That Show the Size of Ancient Pyramids Around the World
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Pyramids were built on nearly every continent on the surface of the planet. No matter where we decide to look,…
3 Gigantic Mesoamerican Pyramids Shrouded in Mysteries
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Of all the ancient pyramids the world has seen, none are as beautiful and awe-striking as those built in Egypt….
Xelhua: The Giant That Built the Largest Pyramid on Earth According to Aztec Mythology
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According to legends, the largest pyramid on the planet’s surface was built by one of the seven mythological giants of…
Oldest Megalithic Stone Tower On Earth Predates First Egyptian Pyramid by 8,300 Years
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An ancient site located in northern Syria is one of the rare sites which dates to the Younger Dryas period….
3 Curious Discoveries Made at The Ancient Pyramids of Teotihuacan
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Thousands of years ago, for reasons we are still unable to understand, cultures worldwide erected massive pyramids of all shapes…
3 Confounding Monoliths That Are Said to Depict Ancient Stars Maps
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Is it possible that thousands of years ago, perhaps at a time when history as we know it was not…
3 Ancient Pyramids You Probably Didn’t Know Are the Worlds Largest
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The Egyptian pyramids are by far some of the most popular ancient structures on the planet’s surface. Leading the way…
3 Ancient Egyptian Cities That Predate The Pyramids By Thousands of Years
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Of all ancient cities in Egypt, none is perhaps as important and majestic as Hut-Ka-Ptah. We are talking about Memphis,…
3 Reasons Why We Still Don’t Know the Age of the Egyptian Pyramids
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How do we know how old some of the pyramids on Earth are? It’s a tough question to ask. Although…