Most tourists will remember it as the Frog Game in Peru, typically played in chicherías, picanterías or town plaza. Yet to ...

The statues and art they created depicting animals testify to this spiritual and social significance. The rise of the Inca civilization in the early ... The guinea was a gold coin in 17th-century ...

The gold and ivory statues of Apollo, Artemis and Leto at Delphi are extraordinary treasures of ancient Greek art.

Welcome to my channel! I'm Brien Foerster, and I take you deep into the mysteries of ancient civilizations, lost technologies, megalithic sites, and unexplained history around the world. From Peru to ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing ...

Credit: Juan de Lara The Parthenon temple on the Acropolis of Athens housed a colossal statue made of gold and ivory, carved by the famous sculptor Phidias in 438 BC. Its view from the entrance of the ...

Archaeological excavations at the ancient settlement of Anavlochos, on a mountainside on the island of Crete, uncovered hundreds of figurines and votive clay plaques hidden among the cracks in the ...

The purpose of building the pagodas was to house five gold statues of Buddha presented to the Ming emperor as a tribute by a Buddhist monk named Bandida from the Western Regions. The pagodas were ...

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