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Five people who were injured in a fire at a hotel in Star City, an enclosed community housing the Russian space research and cosmonaut training centre outside Moscow, have been hospitalised, Alexander Vorobyov, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), told Interfax. [url=h...

Modern history tells us that Hyderabad is 419 years old but the discovery of an Iron Age burial site and Stone Age implements by archaeologists indicate that the city and surrounding areas could actually be over 2,500 years old. The department of archaeology and museums has discovered an Iron Age si...

Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni will officiate at the first public viewing of "Rome Reborn 1.0," a 10-year project based at the University of Virginia and begun at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to use advanced technology to digitally rebuild ancient Rome. The event wil...

Heavy rains that have been lashing the Andean region of Cusco for the past week have not damaged the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, Peru's top tourist destination, said Fernando Astete, head of the Machu Picchu Archaeological Park. [url=http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?Id=S0V9...

Oxyrhynchus is an archaeological site in Egypt, considered one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continually excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egy...

Satellite photo of Chennai, India. Expand (100kb, 797 x 560)

Archaeologists working on India's south-west coast believe they may have solved the mystery of the location of a major port which was key to trade between India and the Roman Empire - Muziris, in the modern-day state of Kerala. For many years, people have been in search of the almost myth...

Istanbul, historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople is the largest city in Turkey and 3rd largest city proper in the world with a population of 13 million, also making it the largest metropolitan city proper in Europe and the second largest metropolitan area in Europe by population. Rece...

Libya's ancient heritage sites suffer from neglect A toga-clad statue that would be a prize museum piece elsewhere lies half buried among cow dung at the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in eastern Libya, where the countrys wealth in antiquities has suffered decades of neglect. Goats and cows graze amo...

The Port of Athens was once an island Piraeus, the main port of Athens, was an island from 4 800 - 3 400 BC, in other words 4 500 years before the Parthenon was built on the Acropolis. This discovery was made by a French-Greek team led by Jean-Philippe Goiran, a CNRS researcher at the 'Archéorient - Enviro...

Lost city from ancient civilisation discovered in Libya University of Leicester archaeologists have made an astonishing find that could re-write history. The fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya has provided archaeologists with the opportunity to explore the country's pre-Islamic heritage fu...

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City Star City (Preview)	General news	1	1117	Apr 12 09:57 2011 by Blobrana
Five people who were injured in a fire at a hotel in Star City, an enclosed community housing the Russian space research and cosmonaut training centre outside Moscow, have been hospitalised, Alexander Vorobyov, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), told Interfax. [url=h...
City Hyderabad (Preview)	General news	1	1016	Nov 17 18:24 2008 by Blobrana
Modern history tells us that Hyderabad is 419 years old but the discovery of an Iron Age burial site and Stone Age implements by archaeologists indicate that the city and surrounding areas could actually be over 2,500 years old. The department of archaeology and museums has discovered an Iron Age si...
City Rome ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Computers	14	5818	Dec 10 10:28 2012 by Blobrana
Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni will officiate at the first public viewing of "Rome Reborn 1.0," a 10-year project based at the University of Virginia and begun at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to use advanced technology to digitally rebuild ancient Rome. The event wil...
City Inca Machu Picchu (Preview)	Off Topic	8	3121	Jul 23 18:17 2014 by Blobrana
Heavy rains that have been lashing the Andean region of Cusco for the past week have not damaged the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, Peru's top tourist destination, said Fernando Astete, head of the Machu Picchu Archaeological Park. [url=http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?Id=S0V9...
Archaeology Egyptian City Oxyrhynchus (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1666	Mar 10 01:34 2007 by Blobrana
Oxyrhynchus is an archaeological site in Egypt, considered one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continually excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egy...
City Chennai (Preview)	Art gallery	1	1649	Aug 21 22:44 2012 by Blobrana
Satellite photo of Chennai, India. Expand (100kb, 797 x 560)
City Muziris (Preview)	Off Topic	8	2570	Jul 21 23:14 2010 by Blobrana
Archaeologists working on India's south-west coast believe they may have solved the mystery of the location of a major port which was key to trade between India and the Roman Empire - Muziris, in the modern-day state of Kerala. For many years, people have been in search of the almost myth...
City Istanbul (Preview)	Off Topic	1	969	Jan 2 00:03 2012 by Blobrana
Istanbul, historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople is the largest city in Turkey and 3rd largest city proper in the world with a population of 13 million, also making it the largest metropolitan city proper in Europe and the second largest metropolitan area in Europe by population. Rece...
City Cyrene (Preview)	Off Topic	0	693	Mar 29 15:07 2011 by Blobrana
Libya's ancient heritage sites suffer from neglect A toga-clad statue that would be a prize museum piece elsewhere lies half buried among cow dung at the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in eastern Libya, where the countrys wealth in antiquities has suffered decades of neglect. Goats and cows graze amo...
City Athens (Preview)	Off Topic	0	658	Jun 16 12:16 2011 by Blobrana
The Port of Athens was once an island Piraeus, the main port of Athens, was an island from 4 800 - 3 400 BC, in other words 4 500 years before the Parthenon was built on the Acropolis. This discovery was made by a French-Greek team led by Jean-Philippe Goiran, a CNRS researcher at the 'Archéorient - Enviro...
City Garamantes (Preview)	Trash	0	582	Nov 10 21:53 2011 by Blobrana
Lost city from ancient civilisation discovered in Libya University of Leicester archaeologists have made an astonishing find that could re-write history. The fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya has provided archaeologists with the opportunity to explore the country's pre-Islamic heritage fu...