One of the questions that has always intrigued historians is how ancient peoples traveled and transported heavy loads. Excavations by Greek archaeologists between 1956 and 1962 revealed that ancient engineers, two thousand years before the invention of the steam locomotive, devised a simple concept of a railway. This was the diolkos, an ancient track that … Read more
Oh, what a wonderful wonder of the whole universe, Delos, as people call it, which the heavens from Olympus with a shining star of the bluish land call it! Pindar, Fragment on the Island of Delos The Greek island of Delos, translated as “brought to light,” is located in the center of the Cyclades islands. … Read more
Time and eternity of the Stone of the Sun After the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, which was leveled to the ground by conquerors in 1521, many valuable and magnificent works of the Aztecs were deeply buried and forgotten. The same fate befell the Stone of the Sun, as its colors … Read more
The term “arena” for the amphitheater only emerged in the Middle Ages. Older writers also mention this word as “La Rena” because the Italian words “arena” and “rena” have the same basic meaning – sand. Namely, the central area of the amphitheater was a round or elliptical fighting pit covered with sand, and the entire … Read more
“On August 28, 1898, all church bells in Solin rang when the deciphered letters revealed the name Jelena on the excavated sarcophagus,” writes Don Frane Bulić in his work In the Footsteps of Croatian Rulers. It was a significant day for Croatian history and archaeology, in which Don Frane Bulić actively participated. Next to today’s … Read more
The Discovery of the Hittites Until the end of the 19th century, the Hittites were considered another ancient people who had once existed and then disappeared from the historical stage and fell into oblivion. Knowledge about them was mainly derived from the Bible, where their name is mentioned several times, as well as from records … Read more
In the central part of India, in the province of Madhya Pradesh, there are caves that house the largest collection of prehistoric art in India. The Bhimbetka caves are natural hollows and openings in the rocks that, in some places, more closely resemble canopies or shelters in unusual stone formations. Around seven hundred such caves … Read more
