2. Machu Picchu, Peru. Machu Picchu is an ancient city located in the Andes Mountains of Peru. It was built by the Inca Empire in the 15th century, and is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in the Western Hemisphere. The city was abandoned about 100 years after it was built, and was rediscovered by European explorers in 1911.
Did the Celts coexist with the Vikings in Iceland? It is one of the explanations for the strange rings discovered in the Nordic country in the 1980s. On the edge of the Seltjarnarnes peninsula, next to the Örfirisey nature reserve to the east of Reykjavík, there are a series of ring-like structures
Polish archaeologists discovered an anthropomorphic figurine in one of the oldest cities in the world:Çatalhöyük in Turkey. This is the first such object made of bone known from this site. The find is about 8 thousand years old. The discovery was made at one of the most famous archaeological sites
A new survey using Lidar technology in the Angkor region highlights the unexpected scale of the Khmer Empires urban complexes. The Ta Prohm temple (12th century), Angkor. SPAN. “No! We have not discovered new unknown cities in Cambodia, as we can read all over the world at the moment! Thats not wh
How many pyramids are there in Egypt? Most know only the three of Giza, of the pharaohs Cheops, Khafre and Menkaure. Some also remember Zosers staggered one at Sakkara and, if anything, Snefrús elbowed one at Dashur. But there are many more, from the red one, also in Dashur, to the false one in Meid