Architecture

The architect suggested that Louis XIII's existing hunting lodge be closed down, but the king did no ...

Hunter-gatherer people constructed all the enormous objects at Gobekli Tepe. Such engineering required technical and organizational skills that were unusual at the time.

Louis XIV visited the hunting lodge as a child. He liked staying there because he could freely enjoy ...

Here, on 15th December 1805, the Treaty of Schönbrunn was signed between Prussia and France, and on ...

This complex includes a tomb with underground vaulted corridors and a spacious inner chamber containing the urn. In Byzantine times, that tomb was converted into a church.

In the early 1960s, the monument began to darken due to carbon deposits visibly, so it underwent a whitewashing operation in 1965-1966.

During the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, British soldiers ripped off many of the precious stones from the walls.

When the truth came out it was too late to replace the defective ropes, so the builders significantly increased the required amount of ropes for the bridge to function.

The foundation stone was laid on September 5, 1869. In 1872 the cellars were finished and in 1876 ev ...