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Showing posts with label Temples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Temples. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

New Study Shows Some Greek Temples Were Oriented to the Moon or Stars, Rather than the Sun

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Ancient Origins The Ancient Greeks, who designed temples in honor of gods, goddesses and heroes, usually oriented them facing the rising...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Archaeologists in Sicily excavate an ancient Greek city remarkably preserved beneath earth and sand

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Ancient Origins In 409 BC, Carthaginian troops from North Africa slaughtered and enslaved the 16,000 soldiers and residents of Selinunte...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

History Trivia - Temple of Apollo at Daphne destroyed by fire

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  October 22 362 A mysterious fire destroyed the temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch.  741 King Charles Martel, the gra...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

History Trivia - The Parthenon in Athens severely damaged by a gunpowder explosion

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Sept 26  46 BC Julius Caesar dedicated a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battl...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Archaeologists unearth marble sarcophagus from ancient Thracian burial mound

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Ancient Origins Archaeologists from the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology in Sofia in Bulgaria have discovered a massive anc...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

4,000-Year-Old Relief Carvings and Decorated Stone Blocks Discovered in Temple of Serapis in Egypt

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Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered two 4,000-year-old reliefs in the Temple of Serapis on the Red Sea. The Egyptian Antiquities Minis...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Long Lost Egyptian Temple Found

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  A general overview of the temple. The Gebel el Silsila Survey Project 2015 Discovery News Remains of the long lost temple of Kh...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Designs revealed for Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years

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By Matt Finn Fox News For the first time in 1,000 years a new pagan temple is being constructed in Iceland’s capital city that will ho...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Illegal dig unearths ancient Egyptian temple

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  Seven men have been arrested in Egypt after digging up an ancient temple under a house in Giza, just outside Cairo. Egyptian news web...