Tag: archaeology
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Petrified Forest National Park
On our way home from the Grand Canyon, we stopped at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. People complain the road from West Texas to Arizona is a whole lot of nothing, but we saw beauty in the barrenness. The gradient hills of wood and rock fringed by desert flora and scrub brush create…
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Mystery of the Hradová Ruins
On the outskirts of Košice, among the low mountains and surrounding forest are the ruins of Hradová Hill. Very little is known about these ruins although they belonged to one of the largest medieval castles in Slovakia. “It is definitely a castle established by a king,” said Matej Ruttkay, head researcher of the archaeological institute…