"A Hoard Of 5,248 Silver Anglo-Saxon Coins Discovered By A Metal Detector Near Lenborough, Buckinghamshire"
"985 date from the reign of Ethelred the Unready in the 990s and 4,263 were minted during the reign of his successor, Canute. Source: London Daily Mail."
"Colosseum's Basement, Rome"
"The Huge Roman Aqueduct Built In Segovia, Spain, By The Roman Emperor Trajan (AD 98-117)"
"One of the best preserved Roman engineering works, the structure was constructed from approximately 24,000 dark colored Guadarrama granite blocks without the use of mortar. The above ground part is 2,388 feet long. And it consists of approximately 165 arches that are more than 30 feet in height."
"Zeugma Mosaic Of Icarus And Daedalus, Roman Period, Museum In Gaziantep Zeugma, Turkey"
"Zeugma was a town along the Euphrates River, founded by Seleucus Nicator, a general and successor to Alexander the Great. In 64 BC, the Romans controlled the city. Zeugma was of great importance to the Romans as it was located at a strategically important place.
Zeugma Mosaic Museum contains mosaics from the site, and is one of the largest mosaic museums in the world."
"This Shoe With Bird On Front Was Found In Haarlem, Holland And Is Dated Ca. 1300-1350 A.d., Archeological Museum Of Haarlem, Netherlands"
"A Frieze Made Of Glazed Brick Tiles Depicting Persian Warriors, From The Palace Of Darius L In Susa, Iran"
"Achaemenid Empire, 6th century BC, now on display at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin."
"A Flint Handaxe Knapped Around A Fossil Shell Made By An Archaic Hominin, West Tofts, Norfolk, England, CA. 500,000-300,000 Before Present"
"The Golden Gauntlet, Henri III Of France’s Armour (Detail), C.1550"
"House Of Neptun And Amphitrite Herculaneum, Italy"
"When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it buried not only the city of Pompeii, but a number of other nearby towns as well. One of them was Herculaneum. Among the many houses in Herculaneum is a relatively small, but richly decorated town house, called the House of the Neptune Mosaic, which must have belonged to a wealthy family."
"An Unusual Cuboidal Stairway In The Small Village Of San Augustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico"
"Haid Al-Jazil Is A 500-Year-Old Mud-Brick Village On Top Of A Massive Boulder. Wadi Dawan, Yemen"
"The Remains Of A Prehistoric House From The Bronze Age Settlement Of Akrotiri In Santorini"
"The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption sometime in the 16th century BC and buried in volcanic ash."
"Gladiator Helmet In Remarkable Condition From Pompeii, Fernbank Museum Of Natural History"
"Roman Emperor Philippus The Arab Kneeling In Front Of Persian King Shapur I, Begging For Peace, And The Standing Emperor Represents Valerian Who Was Taken Captive By The Persian Army In 260 AD, The Triumph Of Shapur I, Naqshe Rostam, Iran"
"Ruins At Mitla, Oaxaca, México, Circa 1875. Photographer: Teobert Maler"
"Mitla is the second most important archaeological site in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico and the most important of the Zapotec culture. The name Mitla is derived from the Nahuati name Mictlán, which was the place of the dead or underworld. Its Zapotec name is Lyobaa, which means “place of rest.” The name Mictlán was Hispanicized to Mitla by the Spanish."
"These 160 Aureus Coins Were Found Below The Floor Of A Roman House In Corbridge In 1911"
"A Lekythos (Perfume Vessel) Found In A Tomb Of The Phoenician And Punic Necropolis In Nora, Sardinia, During The Ongoing Archaeological Campaign By The University Of Padua"
"Fragment Of The Roman Tent, Still Packed, Excavated In The Area Of Vindolanda – A Roman Camp In The North Of Britain"
"A Slab Engraved With The Ram-Headed God Amun-Re Under The, From The Ancient 'Lost City' Of Thonis-Heracleion, Which Lies 6.5 Kilometres Off Today’s Coastline About 150 Feet Underwater In The Mediterranean. 6th Century Bc. Now In The Maritime Museum, Alexandria"
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You don't think they were clever by building (sh*tty) homes in caves and rocks?
well, this pile of whatever is about double tthe age of the USA.
And - if that's not enough for you, let's compare buildings.
Show me a building in your country that's only ¾ of age and I will stop laughing about you.
Here are 8 buildings that are at least 400 years old in the US. You can stop laughing now...
www.oldest.org/structures/buildings-america/
"Yeah! F@#k history! We want sportsball!"
True, but that was thousands of years ago when it was new and structurally sound. It's neither of those things anymore, and adding a soccer pitch is a desecration to the structure and a defilement of history.
oh no, a defiled history... well the rainbow people have got you beat setting a record for tearing down statues.
Great point! We're supposed to respect everyone's history except our own.
For centuries, the people in medieval Italy destroyed all statues of Roman origin they could find to use the material, mostly bronze, to cast guns or new statues. For the bronze decoration of St. Peter, tons of bronze from the to this time completly preserved pantheon where used.
The only statues spared are the ones from Christian emperors.
So, destroying statues and don't 'respecting' the own history is completely normal.
I guess I didn't realize the US is out of metals from which to cast statues. So we have to tear down existing statues for the sole purpose of salvaging the metal. Who knew?
#28 this was where he kept his set of infinity stones
#39 sometimes a sheep is just a sheep
American, eh? It shows.
#14 "Undisputedly?" That's a bold claim. I would wager 'arguably' as I doubt it's undisputed in the archeological field.