Yazılıkaya: ancient Hittite sanctuary near Hattusa, famous for its rock reliefs.Sanctuary
Because Yazılıkaya is close to the Hittite capital Hattusa, it may have been an important state sanctuary. It consists of two galleries of rock reliefs.
The "large gallery" (the northern one,…
Yazılıkaya: village in Central Turkey, well-know for its Phrygian archaeological remains. It is also called "Midas City".
The so-called Midas Monument
The…
Zancle (Greek: Ζάγκλη): Greek city on Sicily, modern Messina.Early History
Coin from Zancle
Founded c.730 when the Greeks expanded their trade network…
Ziggurat: a multi-storied temple tower from ancient Mesopotamia.
Choga Zanbil
Ziggurats are, architecturally, the Mesopotamian equivalent of the Egyptian pyramids: large artificial…
Zosimus (Greek Ζώσιμος): Early Byzantine, pagan author of a history of the Roman Empire, published in the first quarter of the sixth century CE.The translation of Zosimus' New History offered here was printed in 1814 by W. Green and T. Chaplin in London,…