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Scientists Found a 12,000-Year-Old Monument—Turns Out It May Be Humanity’s Oldest Calendar
Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization. Marking a massive comet strike as the start, ...
90-foot underwater ‘pyramid’ could predate Egyptian landmarks and Stonehenge by thousands of years — and rewrite history, scientists say
The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made ...
The Loop Newspaper10d
Old monuments get transformed
J.R. Long, the owner of Tehachapi Signs, was recently commissioned by the City of Tehachapi to refurbish the Tehachapi ...
Fast Company27d
This century-old law lets presidents shift the sizes of national monuments
But the status of national monuments can change ... The avenue for many of these changes is rooted in one century-old law. The Antiquities Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore ...
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Historic domes of Hagia Sophia are renovated to protect the landmark from earthquakes
Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on ...