Kutub-Minar tower
Published February 11, 2018
Published February 11, 2018
Published February 11, 2018
Between the two great African rivers of Zambezi and Limpopo for at least the last thousand years, the African Shona tribes live. It is believed that at this time the first kingdoms appeared in the southeast of Africa, in the development of which a huge role was played by the extraction of gold. Almost all the medieval centers of the Black Continent, including great Zimbabwe...
Published February 11, 2018
Country Kush was located in the south, behind the Nile rapids and impassable sands, much of which now belongs to the Republic of Sudan. This rich state existed for at least a thousand years. Ancient chronicles forced the first researchers in 1820 to go into the depths of the African continent in search of the country Kush...
Published February 11, 2018
Historians who adhere to the Norman theory in the narrative of N.M. Karamzin are always inclined to assert that our ancestors were wild, incapable of organizing their lands, therefore three princes named Rurik, Sineus and Truvor called to us from the Varangians. And for fans of archeology a mystery arose - where is Sineus buried, who, according to legend, was put in a golden coffin? That is, where is the Sineus kurgan...
Published February 11, 2018
In the year 210 BC the almighty lord, the first emperor of China, Qin Shihuandi, passed away. During the eleven years of ruling the united China, Qin Shihuandi surrounded himself with a strong army and created a powerful state. He introduced a single monetary system, chronology, writing, as well as a common system of measures and weights. But, a real sensation for archaeologists was the clay army of Qin Shihuandi...
Published February 11, 2018
In 1601, wandering in the jungle near Lake Tonle Sap in the northwest of Cambodia, the Spanish missionary Marcelo Ribandeiro unexpectedly came across the ruins of a huge ancient temple. So Angkor was opened - a grandiose structure that for several centuries was hidden from human eyes by an impenetrable jungle wall...