Architecture

Aqueducts network provided water even to the homes of individual citizens.

According to a legend, columns removed from the legitimate location were used at the construction site of Hagia Sophia. There is no evidence to support this claim.

The name of this site translated from Turkish means "bulging hill." The entire area where the excavations are located is hilly, but only one of the hills has been considered sacred for generations.

The origins of the collection are connected with the person of Prince Augustus Wettin, who often bou ...

The Chinese called the structure "Wănli Chăngchěng" (万里长城), meaning the Wall is 10,000 Li long. Li is a Chinese unit of distance, called the Chinese mile, equivalent to 500 meters.

This supposition is confirmed by the discovery of a Roman column called Pilier des Nautes (Pillar of ...

The Statue is a federal property administered by the National Park Service, but territorially it is under the jurisdiction of New York City.

The main reason was that in case of an earthquake, they would not fall on the mausoleum. The lean also creates an optical illusion, making the Taj Mahal look bigger from a distance.