Tag: ruins
Cape Matapan & Taenarum – Gateway to Hades
Taenarum, also known as also known as Tainaron or Matapan is an ancient Greek city, located on the Cape Matapan at the end of the Mani Peninsula in Greece, which during antiquity was a mythical gateway to Hades.
Tsaparang – The “Shangri-La” of the Guge Kingdom
Tsaparang, described possibly as the historical origin of the legendary Shangri-La by some historians is a ruined fortress city, perched on a pyramidal formation of rock that served as the capital of the Guge Kingdom in the Ngari Prefecture of Western Tibet.
Survey documents over 1000 monumental structures in Arabia dating from 7,000-years-ago
Over 1000 large rectangular monuments known as mustatils have been documented during a survey of North-western Arabia, that archaeologists suggest may represent the earliest known widespread tradition of monument building across a wide area.
Sungbo’s Eredo – The “Queen of Sheba’s Embankment”
Sungbo’s Eredo is one of the largest man-made monuments in Africa, consisting of a giant system of ditches and embankments that surrounds the entire ljebu Kingdom in the rain forests of south-western Nigeria.
Ani – The Abandoned Medieval City
Ani is a ruined medieval city, and the former capital of the Bagratid Armenian kingdom, located in the Eastern Anatolia region of the Kars province in present-day Turkey.
The Ancient City of Termessos
Termessos was a fortified city, founded by Pamphylian tribes called the Solymi (also called the Solims) near the peak of the Solymos (Güllük Dağı) mountain, in the Taurus mountain range in present-day Turkey.