🇬🇧 Ancient Artifacts of Iran

High in the mountains of Iran, there are the ruins of the ancient city of Bishapur. Here, in the Chogan Gorge, there is the Shapur Cave, which its entrance is a statue of King Shapur of the Sassanid dynasty, 7m high. 

In Naksh-e-Rustam, Fars Province, there is a flat notch in the rock, on which are carved three strange squares. It is believed that this excavation is the lower part of an unfinished tomb, as there are many rock-cut cross-shaped (most of them) tombs of ancient Persian kings nearby.

The inscription on the Behistun Rock cannot be read with the naked eye. The inscription and reliefs are approximately 7 meters high and 22 meters wide, located at an altitude of 105 meters. The bas-relief depicts King Darius, who is protected by the Zoroastrian deity Ahura Mazda in a winged chariot.

About four years ago, it was suggested that all similar megalithic structures around the world were actually constructed in the 19th century. Many people still think this way. They don't consider the complexity of the work or the amount of effort involved.

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Ya Te Veo – Der fleischfressende Baum

In mittelamerikanischen Überlieferungen taucht immer wieder der „Ya Te Veo“ (span. „Ich sehe dich“) auf – ein Baum, der seine Opfer mit rauem Flüstern in Versuchung führt. Wer nachts nahe genug kommt, hört die Worte, erst verlockend, dann bedrohlich. Wer stehen bleibt, wird angeblich von mächtigen Zweigen umschlungen und getötet.

Auf den Bild sieht man die Darstellung eines Mannes, der von einem Yateveo verzehrt wird, einem fleischfressenden Baum, der sowohl in Afrika als auch in Mittelamerika angeblich vorkamm, aus Sea and Land von JW Buel (1887).

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Nordamerikas Giganten - Die Mammutbäume 🌲

Die Mammutbäume Nordamerikas zählen zu den höchsten und ältesten Bäume der Erde. Einst bedeckten sie weite Teile Kaliforniens, doch im Zuge des großen Goldrausches fielen tausende dieser Baumriesen der rücksichtslosen Abholzung zum Opfer. Heute überleben nur noch vereinzelte Bestände, die in Nationalparks unter strengem Naturschutz stehen, um dieses einzigartige Erbe der Urwälder zu bewahren.

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🇬🇧 The Viking Longhouses

Viking longhouses were elongated rectangular structures where entire families lived, worked and slept. These houses, often built on hills and facing downwards, could house up to 50 people, including their slaves (a slave is called a "Træl" in Danish) and animals.

The building materials included wood, stone and peat, and the walls could be made of adobe or wooden planks, with thatched roofs. A longhouse was an average of 30 meters long and 8 meters wide in the center.

In the Viking Age, houses were built with oak wood. The longhouse had curved walls that made the roof look like an upturned boat. The walls were made of clay or wooden planks. The roof was supported by large posts dug into the ground. The walls and roof were also supported by poles from the outside.

If one entered one of these Viking houses, he was greeted with the smell of burning wood and roasted pork. In the center of these houses there was a long fireplace that the family used for cooking.

Along the wall of the house there were planks that were used as beds and also as benches to sit on during the day. In general, people who lived here stayed in the western part of the house, while animals and slaves did so in the eastern part.

The interior walls were joined by a wooden armor, an architectural new method in the Viking Age. The use of trusses allowed to have a wider open space, without having to place too many posts in the middle of the room to support the roof. The lattice also gave the walls their curved shape, since part of the weight of the roof rested on some of the posts that supported it.

Longhouses were not easy to build, they were time-consuming and labor-intensive. It took a long time to gather all the wood and do the necessary carpentry work before it could be used to build the house. In addition, the wood had to be of high quality to last for many years.

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