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 | Portus Lemanis was the name of an ancient Roman fort, settlement and port in southern Kent. The modern village of Lympne derives its name from the ancient port.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portus_Lemanis |  | 11/04/2009 | 13 | 



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 | Last week, was the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, in the little Spanish village of Ribadelago.
During the night of the 9th of January, 1959, the Dam "Vega de tera" suddenly broke due a deficiency structure. The 8 millions m3 of water of the artificial lake flood the village of Ribadelago, province of Zamora, Spain. Main part of the village was destroyed in less than one hou... |  | 01/17/2009 | 470 | 



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 | The Thornborough Henges is an unusual ancient monument complex that includes the three aligned henges that give the site its name. The complex is located near the village of Thornborough, close to the town of Masham in North Yorkshire, England. The complex includes many large ancient structures including a cursus, henges, burial grounds and settlements. They are thought to have been part of a N... |  | 02/15/2006 | 345 | 
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 | A village of small houses that may have sheltered the builders of the mysterious Stonehenge — or people attending festivals there — has been found by archaeologists studying the stone circle in England.
Eight of the houses, with central hearths, have been excavated, and there may be as many as 25 of them, Mike Parker Pearson said Tuesday at a briefing organized by the National Ge... |  | 01/31/2007 | 601 | 



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 | San Fruttuoso is an Italian very particular maritime ancient small village. It has been preserved untouched across the centuries because it can be reached only by sea or by am hard walk across a mountain. |  | 05/05/2007 | 345 | 



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 | Village of Peace is situated in the slope of Taraboshi mountain near the Lake of Shkodra. The village has been constructed after the crisis in Kosova. It serves as shelter for the less protected people and those with social problems. The houses of the "village of peace" are constructed with wood. |  | 05/14/2006 | 222 | 



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 | No, nothing ancient about it. It's just an old landing strip on an old air force base in southern Sweden. |  | 08/18/2006 | 220 | 



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 | Millbrook Village, located in the NJ side of the Delaware Water Gap. Its a great little restored village, dating to the 1850's. |  | 09/15/2005 | 161 | 



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 | Modlareuth is a small german village with 50 citicens with one part laying in Bavaria and the other in Thuringen. 1966 the wall was errected here and splitted the village apart. The thuringer residents were settled away and it was turned into GDR security zone. The americans called the village "Little Berlin"
Today the wall, towers, a helicopter and vehicles stand as an open air museum a... |  | 05/26/2006 | 377 | 



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 | Misthusum was a small village build in the 12th centurz on 8 hills and contained 12 marchfarms. The village was destroyed by the big flood on october 11th. 1634. The worst ever at the danish west coast. It was called "the giant mandrowing".
44 people drowned including all animals.
Later some of the farms were reconstructed but 1814 the last family left. The only left build... |  | 10/21/2007 | 243 | 



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 | this area of the mexican desert is loaded with ancient monuments |  | 02/24/2009 | 312 | 



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 | This is a map of the main cities / religious centres of ancient Greece, superimposed to the map of modern Greece and part of Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania, etc. Note that some cities have developed to big urban centres preserving their ancient name; others have changed their name, especially those that stayed outside the modern Greek state's frontiers; and others yet have disappeared, leaving only ... |  | 09/08/2007 | 1,357 | 
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