The oldest door is still in use in Rome. Cast in bronze for emperor Hadrian' rebuilding, they date from about 115 AD.
Each door is solid bronze seven and a half feet wide & twenty-five feet high, yet so well balanced they can be pushed or pulled open easily by one person.
Rare Desert Bloom in Atacama Desert, Chile.
Atacama Desert in northern Chile is considered the oldest and driest desert on the planet. Every five to seven years, this arid land explodes with new plant life during a rare phenomenon called a desert bloom.
The Washington Commanders are being sued by The Native American Guardians Association, which has been trying to get the Commanders to change the name back to Redskins.
The lawsuit states :
โThe logo on the Redskinโs helmet is an actual person, itโs Chief White Calf. Every timeโฆ
One of the great special effects in History!!!
At noon, every 21 April (traditional date of birth of Rome), sun's rays beam perfectly on entrance doorway of Pantheon, Rome. Emperor would be bathed in the sun's rays as he entered the building as part of the celebration ceremony.
"Sumerian Birth Certificate"
Clay tablet from 2000-1595 BC, contains birth of a child, its gender, name of his parents and also a footprint of child. Found in Sumerian city of Nippur in southern Iraq.
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A 3300-year-old chariot bridge is still in use today. Arkadiko Bridge was built between 1300 and 1190 BC, making it one of the oldest still-used arch bridges still in existence. It was built on a road that linked Tiryns to Epidaurus, and was part of a larger military road system.
Mycenaean Bridge at Kazarma was built about 3300 years ago (Greek Bronze Age). It is one of oldest arch bridges still in existence and use today and oldest preserved in Europe. It was also built with curbs, presumably to keep speeding chariots from falling off.
A Snapping turtle that emerged after two weeks under mud carrying 18 pounds of earth on its back. Turtle itself weighs 13 pounds.
This is how Native American legends of Earth being brought into existence and carried on shell of a turtle originated.
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This is an amazing statue of the goddess Kali in Tampaksiring, Indonesia.
Kali, also known as Dakshina Kฤlikฤ, is a Hindu goddess who is considered to be the master of death, time and change. She is also said to be the Parvati, the supreme of all powers, or the ultimate reality.
Itโs never too late to pursue your passion ;
Aneลพka (Agnes) Kaลกpรกrkovรก, a 90-year-old Czech Grandma is turning her village into art gallery by hand-painting flowers.
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Tree of Tule in Oaxaca, Mexico, is the Tree with the Largest Trunk diameter in the World. It's circumference reaches almost 60m and has a height of 42m.
It's approximate age is 2,000 years.
This is what an Igloo looks like when you build a fire inside. The fire inside melts the inner layer of ice, and the cold outside refreezes it adding a layer of insulation that can keep the igloo at 15ยฐC inside while it's -45ยฐC outside.
This sheep dog is covered in his own blood after fighting off wolves protecting his flock, while sheep gently comforts him.
Regardless of how physically strong or emotionally tough someone is, showing them how much you appreciate their efforts goes a long way.
#drthehistories
Kailasa Temple, largest of rock-cutย Hindu templesย atย Ellora Caves, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. Built in around 800 AD. Archaeologists believe it is made from a single rock.
Anceint Roman mosaic floor found last week. A section of ancient Roman mosaic flooring believed to be from 6th century villa of Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great has been discovered near Verona, during digging to replace gas pipes at Montorio outside Verona.
Caravanserais were designed as places where caravans could rest and stay during their travels, especially during Seljuk period.
This Caravanserai, whose builder and architect is unknown, is defined by historians as an Anatolian Seljuk monument dated first half of 13th Century CE.
The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland.
A Viking era ring inscribed with the words 'for Allah', found in the grave of a woman who was buried 1200 years ago in Birka, 25km west of Stockholm, Sweden.
The ring constitutes a unique material evidence of direct contact between the Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate.
Royal tomb of King Artaxerxes I, 6th King of Kings of Achaemenid Empire, from 465-424 BC, at Achaemenid burial site Naqsh e Rostam, near Persepolis, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Iran.
Brazilian couple planted about 2.7 million trees in 20 years to restore forest that had been wiped out by deforestation. Even animals have returned including more than 30 species of mammals, 170 species of birds and 15 species of amphibians and reptiles.
Marble floor in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. It was made 1526-1660 by several artists, incl. Baccia and Giulia d'Agnolo and Francesco da Sangallo.
Michelangelo's Grocery List with Drawings, 1518 (probably the servant tasked with the grocery run was illiterate).
Preserved at the Casa Buonarroti museum in Florence, Italy.
An Upside-Down Fig Tree that grows from the ceiling of an ancient Roman ruin in Bacoli, Italy - Archaeological Park of Baiae.
The tree sprouts from the ceiling of the arch it grows inside, which was allegedly part of the Emperor Nero's private villa.
Ait Ben Haddou Medieval Kasbah (Kasbah is the citadel of a North African city), a fortified medieval city, or ksar, along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in Morocco.
A book which was part of the evidence Henry VIII and his lawyers gathered in the 1530s to help win an annulment from Catherine of Aragon and ultimately to break with Rome, was found in 2015 on the shelves of the library at Lanhydrock, a National Trust mansion in Cornwall.
Fish Pond Mosaic by Gary Drostle :
It's made of vitreous ceramic tesserae using a โreverse techniqueโ and measures 2m in diameter. Made for a small public garden in Croydon, Surrey, UK, it won several art awards.
#drthehistories
Longest road in the world to walk, is from Cape Town (South Africa) to Magadan (Russia).
No need for planes or boats, there are bridges. It's a 22,387km and it takes 4492 hours to travel.
Teotihuacan Pyramid in Mexico City in 1900 and in 2022. The 1900 view must have looked like a random mountain, until the excavations and clean-up began.
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History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It's not yours to erase. It belongs to all of us.
Pre-colonization Glass Gem Corn, Indigenous to North America, regrown by a Cherokee farmer in Oklahoma. This particular corn is a mix of ancient Pawnee, Osage and Cherokee varieties.
Abdel Kader Haidara; probably greatest librarian alive. In 2012, he put his life at great risk to save over 400,000 ancient manuscript from terrorists who are prone, as every zealots, to burn books that don't agree with their crazy view of the world.
Jabuticaba Tree :
Found in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia, the fruit of the Jabuticaba tree grows directly on the trunk and branches and tastes like blueberry yogurt.
Elongated skulls discovered on Peruโs south coast on the Paracas desert peninsula in 1928 CE.
Discovered by a Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello - He recovered more than 300 elongated skulls.
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A mystery artist has been creating sculptures using natural stones high among the hills of England's Lake District. This stone circle frames the view of Borrowdale.
A megalithic monument in Spain that's older than the Pyramids was recently uncovered from its watery hiding place by a drought. At 7000 years old, the "Spanish Stonehenge" is actually some 2000 years older than Stonehenge itself.
The most isolated lighthouse in the world; รrรญdrangaviti Lighthouse, perched atop a rock pillar in the Westman Islands, off the coast of Iceland, sits about forty meters above the raging Atlantic Ocean, was built in 1939.