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Segesta is known for the Archaeological Park located in the hills of Monte Barbaro. On one of the peaks there is the Greek Doric Temple, the best preserved in Sicily. It was built in the second half of the 5th century BCE. outside the area of the ancient city. An amphitheater was built on the opposite slope of the mountain in the 2nd century BC. Between the 5th and 7th centuries, the city was abandoned. It was re-settled by Muslims in the 11th century, but in the 12th century was city ended.
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Segesta jest znana z Parku Archeologicznego położonego na wzgórzach Monte Barbaro. Na jednym ze szczytów znajduje się najlepiej zachowana na Sycylii grecka Świątynia Dorycka. Wybudowana była w drugiej połowie V wieku p.n.e. poza obszarem starożytnego miasta. Na przeciwległym zboczu góry w II w pne wubudowany został amfitetr. Między V a VII wiekiem miasto zostało opuszczone. Zasiedlili je ponownie w XI wieku muzułmanie, ale już w wieku XII nastąpił kres tego miasta.
Maha Aungmye Bonzan Kyaung was a royal monastery built in 1818. Although old enough, it is a new addition to Inwa during the Konbaung period. It was built by Nanmadaw Me Nu, the chief queen of King Bagyidaw. Against the Burmese tradition of building monasteries with wood, it is built with brick and stucco mimicking the wooden structure.
This monastery and neighbouring Htilaingshin Paya are located in the Inwa palace compound that is square-shaped and protected by the Ayeyarwadi and Myitnge rivers to the north and east, and by the moat to the south and west.
Archaeology of emotion, part one (work in progress; let us see how I feel about it). Helios 44M-7 at F11.
An enchanted corner is the Etruscan Coast. A perfect combination of sea, nature, excursions and archaeological sites.
Antique Archaeology is ready for Halloween.
www.antiquearchaeology.com/antique_archaeology_nashville_...
If you have a chance I would recommend visiting the Old Marathon building in Nashville. Americana at it's best!
This is the Tiled Kiosk building at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. And you guessed it, inside there are many different tiles on display.
It is interesting that rice is grown in the protected area. It may be an effort to maintain the cultural landscape of Anuradhapura.
Autumnal reflections in the Shropshire Canal at Coalport.
Also to be seen is the Coalport China Works - now part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Group of Museums.
This section of canal past the china works to the foot of the Hay Incline Plane was restored in the late 1970s though it is isolated and disused as a navigation.
Coalport is part of the UNESCO Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site.
For more photographs of Coalport please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Industrial-Archaeology/Ironbridge-Coalbr...
The Archaeological Museum of Rhodes (Greek: Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Ρόδου) is located in the Medieval City of Rhodes. The museum is housed in the monumental edifice that was the hospital of the Knights of Saint John. Construction was begun in 1440 and brought to completion in the time of the Grand Master d'Aubusson (1476-1503). The Museum contains various collections of archaeological artifacts from various parts of Rhodes and the neighbouring islands, including the Statue of the Crouching Aphrodite (1st century BC), which was inspired by a famous prototype work created by the sculptor Doidalsas in the 3rd century BC, and the Pyxis of the Fikellura type (mid-6th century BC).
The museum also holds the Head of Helios, which was featured in 2011 on the album cover of Floral Shoppe by Macintosh Plus, and subsequently became famous for its association with the Vaporwave movement....Wikipedia
how the utterly extraordinary can lay beneath our feet and how utterly extraordinary it is that we haven't taken better care of our precious home, how pursuits and vanities and loss of collective consciousness has blinded and numbed us
2020 has woken the world up to our vulnerabilities, our imperatives and the folly of egotistical arrogance and selfish superficiality
here's to an unearthing of what we have always known in our heart of hearts - that our time here is brief, miraculous and capable of incredible richness
here's to an archaeology of thought, and to each of us striving to save what is precious beyond words
Taken on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.
GIANT'S CASTLE
From here, I can look down on a gull,
wheeling against the sea, herringboned
with brown, bill agape with a timeless yawl.
I have climbed up through earthworks
with their crust of heather, and thrift gone over,
and am sitting in some giant’s seat of stone,
worn by wind. I am writing, leaning on my hat.
From here, all can be seen, kirtled
in a thin mist, from Clapper Rock to Peninnis
and Agnes beyond. I have my back to the sea;
it is too much to bear.
There are all sorts
of shades: ones who perched this precipice
with wind for company, frill-throated antiquarians
who have wondered, and down below there,
in that watch-house of stone, is my shade
watching yours. You are bending, laughing.
A black beetle negotiates your bracelets,
scales the skin of your inner arm, clinging
upside down. Gulls yawling. Wind
wearing stone. Meloes crawling.
Source material: Giant’s castle is a cliff castle on the coastal path south of Porth Hellick, St. Mary’s. It has never been excavated, but iron age pottery was discovered there during the Second World War. It consists of four curving ramparts, protecting a small, rounded area which may be a hut platform. The rest of the castle is dominated by a large, wind-worn granite outcrop. The first of the ramparts has been cut away to accommodate a watch-house, now ruined. In spring and early summer, the area is carpeted with blooms of thrift, and the violet oil beetle, Meloe violaceus, is common there. By autumn, the thrift flowers have bleached to white, and the adult beetles are nowhere to be seen.
Poem by Giles Watson, 2004.
Archäologische Stätte und imposante Ruinen des großen Tempels von Viracocha. 3480 m über dem Meeresspiegel und 110 Kilometer von Cusco entfernt, im Heiligen Tal der Inkas. Der Legende nach erschien den Menschen hier Viracocha, sie erkannten ihn jedoch nicht. Dann verbrannte Viracocha das Gebiet mit Feuer vom Himmel. Die Menschen errichteten ein Heiligtum und begannen, Opfergaben dorthin zu bringen. Als der Inka Huayna Capac davon erfuhr, befahl er den Bau eines riesigen Tempels an der Stelle des Heiligtums. Der Tempel wurde von den Spaniern zerstört, aber die verbleibenden Mauern und der Fuß der Säulen, die das Dach stützten, vermitteln einen guten Eindruck davon, wie er aussah. Sein Schuppendach war das größte im gesamten Inkareich. Das Design des Gebäudes ist so, dass der Besucher, der durch die Türen geht, über die Säulen stolpert und gezwungen ist, um sie herumzugehen und dabei rituelle Bewegungen auszuführen, die von der Kosmologie der Inkas vorgegeben sind. Rund um den Tempel gibt es ein großes heiliges Reservoir (einen künstlichen See, und niemand weiß, wo und wie die Inkas ihn mit Wasser gefüllt haben), die Wohnungen der Priester und ihre Felder und Weiden für Lamas, Unterkünfte für Reisende (8 Tampus), Orte für feierliche Versammlungen, 220 runde Gebäude - Lagerhäuser und Terrassen. Der gesamte Wohn- und Tempelraum ist von einer großen Mauer umgeben. Auch hier ist trotz der Zeit und der Zerstörung vieles erhalten geblieben und man kann hier wie an nur wenigen Orten die Atmosphäre des Inka-Lebens spüren.
If you are interested in Julio Claudian Iconography and portrait study you may enjoy these two links:
Julio Claudian Iconographic Association- Joe Geranio- Administrator at groups.yahoo.com/group/julioclaudian/
The Portraiture of Caligula- Joe Geranio- Administrator- at
Both are non-profit sites and for educational use only.
Copán, Honduras, 2012.
Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala. It was the capital city of a major Classic period kingdom from the 5th to 9th centuries AD. The city was located in the extreme southeast of the Mesoamericancultural region, on the frontier with the Isthmo-Colombian cultural region, and was almost surrounded by non-Maya peoples. [source: wikipedia. com]
"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
--Aesop
The We're Here! gang is celebrating Sheila's birthday today with a little domestic archaeology.
See notes on image.
Nokorbachey temple is supposed to be part of Banteay Nokor archaeological site that has been on the tentative list of World Heritage. It may have been on the "tentative" list because of the recent construction in the ancient structure.
Luiftbild von den Bewuchsmerkmalen einer völlig verebneten keltischen Viereckschanze in einem Zuckerrübenfeld
Many strange and wonderful deposits of treasure in this closet!!
The We're Here! gang is doing a little domestic archaeology today. Notes applied.
By the way, the cat insists that I leave this door open. Not because he necessarily wants to go into the closet...but just to keep his options open.
It is an artificial modification of landform with unknown purposes. Trees are also cut. No research has been conducted so far to identify the time of construction and purposes. Similar land modifications are found all over Palau.
There are speculations as to the purpose such as religious site, fortress, terraced cultivation etc. An academic mentioned it may be a Buddhist stupa, which I believe is unlikely.