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Phikardou on the northern mountain slopes of Troodos, almost entirely abandoned when I first visited it for my architectural studies mid 70's now even boasts a fine taverna for the few weekend residents.
Dadès Valley is dotted with oases and mudbrick palaces that give the region its fairy-tale nickname – Valley of a Thousand Kasbahs.
Morocco, Dades Valley
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Most likely abandoned, this house was just on the outskirts of Yuncaypata, a small community in the highlands above Cusco, Peru.
Luxor -Ramses III:s Tempel-Medinet Habu
The temple, some 150 m long, is of orthodox design, and resembles closely the nearby mortuary temple of Ramesses II (the Ramesseum). The temple precinct measures approximately 700 ft (210 m). by 1,000 ft (300 m) and contains more than 75,350 sq ft (7,000 m2) of decorated wall reliefs.[1] Its walls are relatively well preserved and it is surrounded by a massive mudbrick enclosure, which may have been fortified. The original entrance is through a fortified gate-house, known as a migdol (a common architectural feature of Asiatic fortresses of the time).
Just inside the enclosure, to the south, are chapels of Amenirdis I, Shepenupet II and Nitiqret, all of whom had the title of Divine Adoratrice of Amun.
The first pylon leads into an open courtyard, lined with colossal statues of Ramesses III as Osiris on one side, and uncarved columns on the other. The second pylon leads into a peristyle hall, again featuring columns in the shape of Ramesses. This leads up a ramp that leads (through a columned portico) to the third pylon and then into the large hypostyle hall (which has lost its roof). Reliefs and actual heads of foreign captives were also found placed within the temple perhaps in an attempt to symbolise the king's control over Syria and Nubia.
In Coptic times, there was a church inside the temple structure, which has since been removed. Some of the carvings in the main wall of the temple have been altered by coptic carvings.
The first one.
Djoser’s Pyramid draws ideas from several precedents. The most relevant precedent is found at Saqqara mastaba 3038. The substructure lay in a 4m deep rectangular pit, and had mudbrick walls rising to 6 m. Three sides were extended and built out to create eight shallow steps rising at an angle of 49°. This would have been an elongated step pyramid if the remaining side had not been left uncovered. In another parallel to Djoser’s complex, to complete this mastaba complex a niched enclosure wall was erected.
Luxor -Ramses III:s Tempel-Medinet Habu
The temple, some 150 m long, is of orthodox design, and resembles closely the nearby mortuary temple of Ramesses II (the Ramesseum). The temple precinct measures approximately 700 ft (210 m). by 1,000 ft (300 m) and contains more than 75,350 sq ft (7,000 m2) of decorated wall reliefs.[1] Its walls are relatively well preserved and it is surrounded by a massive mudbrick enclosure, which may have been fortified. The original entrance is through a fortified gate-house, known as a migdol (a common architectural feature of Asiatic fortresses of the time).
Just inside the enclosure, to the south, are chapels of Amenirdis I, Shepenupet II and Nitiqret, all of whom had the title of Divine Adoratrice of Amun.
The first pylon leads into an open courtyard, lined with colossal statues of Ramesses III as Osiris on one side, and uncarved columns on the other. The second pylon leads into a peristyle hall, again featuring columns in the shape of Ramesses. This leads up a ramp that leads (through a columned portico) to the third pylon and then into the large hypostyle hall (which has lost its roof). Reliefs and actual heads of foreign captives were also found placed within the temple perhaps in an attempt to symbolise the king's control over Syria and Nubia.
In Coptic times, there was a church inside the temple structure, which has since been removed. Some of the carvings in the main wall of the temple have been altered by coptic carvings.
The driveway to the property in Western Victoria (near Pyramid Hill) where my late mother was raised in a 150 year old mud brick home. It is slowly falling into disrepair and no-one is living there now.
A recent visit back to the farm, where we spent many a childhood Xmas with family and friends, was to scatter Mum's ashes at the farm, as was her wish. A sad moment but interlaced with many happy memories.
Shali old town seen from Shali Fortress, Siwa Oasis, Egypt.
Sony A7 + SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7
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El-Oued - Die Stadt liegt inmitten einer Oase und hat enge, gewundene Gassen mit kubischen Lehmsteingebäuden und blauen Kuppeln. Die Häuser stehen dicht beieinander und vermitteln den Eindruck einer „Stadt der tausend Kuppeln“, wie sie die französische Schriftstellerin und Abenteurerin Isabella Eberhardt (1877–1904) nannte. Die befestigte Moschee und die Verwendung von Arkaden und Bögen spiegeln sowohl maurische als auch römische Einflüsse wider. Dattelpalmenhaine wachsen in künstlich angelegten, trichterförmigen Kratern, die durch geflochtene Palmenwälle vor Sand geschützt sind und nahe genug am Grundwasser liegen, um eine Bewässerung zu verhindern. El-Oued ist ein geschäftiges Karawanenzentrum, das hochwertige Datteln exportiert und für seine Teppiche und gewebten Stoffe bekannt ist. Das Souf-Museum beherbergt regionale Exponate. Einwohnerzahl (2008) 134.487.
El-Oued - 🌴🐫🐪🌴 Located in the middle of an oasis, the town has narrow, winding streets with cubic mudbrick buildings and blue domes. The houses are close together, giving the impression of a "city of a thousand domes," as the French writer and adventurer Isabella Eberhardt (1877–1904) called it. The fortified mosque and the use of arcades and arches reflect both Moorish and Roman influences. Date palm groves grow in man-made, funnel-shaped craters, protected from sand by woven palm walls and close enough to the groundwater to prevent irrigation. El-Oued is a bustling caravan center, exporting high-quality dates and is known for its carpets and woven fabrics. The Souf Museum houses regional exhibits. Population (2008) 134,487.
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Luxor -Ramses III:s Tempel-Medinet Habu
The temple, some 150 m long, is of orthodox design, and resembles closely the nearby mortuary temple of Ramesses II (the Ramesseum). The temple precinct measures approximately 700 ft (210 m). by 1,000 ft (300 m) and contains more than 75,350 sq ft (7,000 m2) of decorated wall reliefs.[1] Its walls are relatively well preserved and it is surrounded by a massive mudbrick enclosure, which may have been fortified. The original entrance is through a fortified gate-house, known as a migdol (a common architectural feature of Asiatic fortresses of the time).
Just inside the enclosure, to the south, are chapels of Amenirdis I, Shepenupet II and Nitiqret, all of whom had the title of Divine Adoratrice of Amun.
The first pylon leads into an open courtyard, lined with colossal statues of Ramesses III as Osiris on one side, and uncarved columns on the other. The second pylon leads into a peristyle hall, again featuring columns in the shape of Ramesses. This leads up a ramp that leads (through a columned portico) to the third pylon and then into the large hypostyle hall (which has lost its roof). Reliefs and actual heads of foreign captives were also found placed within the temple perhaps in an attempt to symbolise the king's control over Syria and Nubia.
In Coptic times, there was a church inside the temple structure, which has since been removed. Some of the carvings in the main wall of the temple have been altered by coptic carvings.
Blue banded bees are solitary bees. This means that each female bee mates and then builds a solitary nest by herself. She builds her nest in a shallow burrow in clay soil or sometimes in mudbricks. Many blue banded bees may build their nest burrows in the same spot, close to one another, like neighbouring houses in a village.
Blue banded bees can perform a special type of pollination called 'buzz pollination'. Some flowers hide their pollen inside tiny capsules. A blue banded bee can grasp a flower like this and shiver her flight muscles, causing the pollen to shoot out of the capsule.
Quite a few native Australian flowers require buzz pollination.
Photographed Currimundi, Queensland, Australia.
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Adandoned structure on the outskirt of Yuncaypata, a small rural community in the Peruvian highlands above Cusco at around altitude 12,475 ft.
Luxor -Ramses III:s Tempel-Medinet Habu
The temple, some 150 m long, is of orthodox design, and resembles closely the nearby mortuary temple of Ramesses II (the Ramesseum). The temple precinct measures approximately 700 ft (210 m). by 1,000 ft (300 m) and contains more than 75,350 sq ft (7,000 m2) of decorated wall reliefs.[1] Its walls are relatively well preserved and it is surrounded by a massive mudbrick enclosure, which may have been fortified. The original entrance is through a fortified gate-house, known as a migdol (a common architectural feature of Asiatic fortresses of the time).
Just inside the enclosure, to the south, are chapels of Amenirdis I, Shepenupet II and Nitiqret, all of whom had the title of Divine Adoratrice of Amun.
The first pylon leads into an open courtyard, lined with colossal statues of Ramesses III as Osiris on one side, and uncarved columns on the other. The second pylon leads into a peristyle hall, again featuring columns in the shape of Ramesses. This leads up a ramp that leads (through a columned portico) to the third pylon and then into the large hypostyle hall (which has lost its roof). Reliefs and actual heads of foreign captives were also found placed within the temple perhaps in an attempt to symbolise the king's control over Syria and Nubia.
In Coptic times, there was a church inside the temple structure, which has since been removed. Some of the carvings in the main wall of the temple have been altered by coptic carvings.
Cacti are planted on top of adobe fences for decoration and as a deterrent to keep animals out. Because the climate is so dry, all the vegetation in the Peruvian highlands are hearty and drought resistant. Yuncaypata, Peru.
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Rayen Castle (Persian: ارگ راين Arg-e Rāyen) is an adobe castle in Kerman province, Iran. The medieval mudbrick city of Rayen is similar to the Arg-e Bam city which was destroyed in an earthquake in December 2003. Rayen displays all the architectural elements of a deserted citadel. It is extremely well preserved, despite numerous natural disasters that have destroyed similar structures nearby, and it is one of the most interesting sites in Iran.
Rayen Castle was inhabited until 150 years ago and, although believed to be at least 1,000 years old, may in fact have foundations from the pre-Islamic Sassanid era.[1]
Hudar Castle (Arg) is an adobe castle in South Khorasan ostan (province), Iran. this is a mudbrick citadel that included villagers houses , three ruined mansions , a mosque , two bathhouses (GarmAbeh or Hammam) , Ab anbars and ....
Arg-e-Hudar was inhabited until 100 years ago and believed to be at least 400 years old , Fayazi Mansion ruins is one of the most attractive place in that Arg - From Safavid to Qajar periods (16-19th centuries)
قلعه و ارگ هودر یکی از جاذبه های استان خراسان جنوبی است که در صورت توجه و رسیدگی میتواند به یکی از جاذبه های ایران تبدیل شود
در این ارگ تعداد زیادی خانه های روستایی ، چندین آب انبار ، حمام ، مسجد و چند عمارت تاریخی را مشاهده کرد که قدمت آنان به دوران صفوی بر می گردد و تا اواخر دوران قاجار نیز مورد استفاده مردم بوده
با شکوه ترین سازه تاریخی در این مجموعه عمارت فیاضی است که فکر میکنم هر بیننده ای را به خود جلب نماید (حتی اگر علاقه مند به تاریخ نباشد) و اگر مسئولین میراث از این عمارت دیدن کنند حتما متوجه ارزشهای آن خواهند شد
Luxor -Ramses III:s Tempel-Medinet Habu
The temple, some 150 m long, is of orthodox design, and resembles closely the nearby mortuary temple of Ramesses II (the Ramesseum). The temple precinct measures approximately 700 ft (210 m). by 1,000 ft (300 m) and contains more than 75,350 sq ft (7,000 m2) of decorated wall reliefs.[1] Its walls are relatively well preserved and it is surrounded by a massive mudbrick enclosure, which may have been fortified. The original entrance is through a fortified gate-house, known as a migdol (a common architectural feature of Asiatic fortresses of the time).
Just inside the enclosure, to the south, are chapels of Amenirdis I, Shepenupet II and Nitiqret, all of whom had the title of Divine Adoratrice of Amun.
The first pylon leads into an open courtyard, lined with colossal statues of Ramesses III as Osiris on one side, and uncarved columns on the other. The second pylon leads into a peristyle hall, again featuring columns in the shape of Ramesses. This leads up a ramp that leads (through a columned portico) to the third pylon and then into the large hypostyle hall (which has lost its roof). Reliefs and actual heads of foreign captives were also found placed within the temple perhaps in an attempt to symbolise the king's control over Syria and Nubia.
In Coptic times, there was a church inside the temple structure, which has since been removed. Some of the carvings in the main wall of the temple have been altered by coptic carvings.
The landscape of the highlands, near the town of Yuncaypata, about a 30 minute bus ride up from Cusco.
Luxor -Ramses III:s Tempel-Medinet Habu
The temple, some 150 m long, is of orthodox design, and resembles closely the nearby mortuary temple of Ramesses II (the Ramesseum). The temple precinct measures approximately 700 ft (210 m). by 1,000 ft (300 m) and contains more than 75,350 sq ft (7,000 m2) of decorated wall reliefs.[1] Its walls are relatively well preserved and it is surrounded by a massive mudbrick enclosure, which may have been fortified. The original entrance is through a fortified gate-house, known as a migdol (a common architectural feature of Asiatic fortresses of the time).
Just inside the enclosure, to the south, are chapels of Amenirdis I, Shepenupet II and Nitiqret, all of whom had the title of Divine Adoratrice of Amun.
The first pylon leads into an open courtyard, lined with colossal statues of Ramesses III as Osiris on one side, and uncarved columns on the other. The second pylon leads into a peristyle hall, again featuring columns in the shape of Ramesses. This leads up a ramp that leads (through a columned portico) to the third pylon and then into the large hypostyle hall (which has lost its roof). Reliefs and actual heads of foreign captives were also found placed within the temple perhaps in an attempt to symbolise the king's control over Syria and Nubia.
In Coptic times, there was a church inside the temple structure, which has since been removed. Some of the carvings in the main wall of the temple have been altered by coptic carvings.
Luxor -Ramses III:s Tempel-Medinet Habu
The temple, some 150 m long, is of orthodox design, and resembles closely the nearby mortuary temple of Ramesses II (the Ramesseum). The temple precinct measures approximately 700 ft (210 m). by 1,000 ft (300 m) and contains more than 75,350 sq ft (7,000 m2) of decorated wall reliefs.[1] Its walls are relatively well preserved and it is surrounded by a massive mudbrick enclosure, which may have been fortified. The original entrance is through a fortified gate-house, known as a migdol (a common architectural feature of Asiatic fortresses of the time).
Just inside the enclosure, to the south, are chapels of Amenirdis I, Shepenupet II and Nitiqret, all of whom had the title of Divine Adoratrice of Amun.
The first pylon leads into an open courtyard, lined with colossal statues of Ramesses III as Osiris on one side, and uncarved columns on the other. The second pylon leads into a peristyle hall, again featuring columns in the shape of Ramesses. This leads up a ramp that leads (through a columned portico) to the third pylon and then into the large hypostyle hall (which has lost its roof). Reliefs and actual heads of foreign captives were also found placed within the temple perhaps in an attempt to symbolise the king's control over Syria and Nubia.
In Coptic times, there was a church inside the temple structure, which has since been removed. Some of the carvings in the main wall of the temple have been altered by coptic carvings.
In Yuncaypata, a small rural community in the Peruvian highlands above Cusco at around altitude 12,475 ft.
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Nizwa is one of the oldest cities in Oman, and was once a center of trade, religion, education and art. Its Jama (grand mosque) was formerly a center for Islamic learning. The city was the capital of Oman in the 6th and 7th centuries AD.
Nizwa acquired its importance because it has been an important meeting point at the base of the Western Hajar Mountains.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizwa
The fort is believed to have been built between the 12th and 15th century by the Banu Nebhan tribe who inhabited the area at the time and were known for controlling the trade of frankincense. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The majority of the oasis is in ruins but the structure and some of the houses still stand.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahla_Fort
Looking back at Yuncaypata, a small rural community in the Peruvian highlands above Cusco, Peru at around altitude 12,475 ft. It's way up there in the highlands where the clouds reside.
All the houses and fences in Yuncaypata are made of mud brick (adobe), the traditional building material.
Peru, South America