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Taken at Ancient Lotus Garden of Gyoda City, Saitama Pref., north of Tokyo.
In early 1971, the seeds of lotus flowers, which were estimated by experts as being 1,400 to 3,000 years old, were found at a construction site of waste incinerator in Gyoda City, northern suburbs of Tokyo, and, two years later, unusual lotus flowers were found blooming with the seeds having been germinated by the drilling of the pool of the plant. Today, more than 120,000 lotus plants with 42 varieties grow in the ponds of Ancient Lotus Garden.
An old well outside the ancient Italian Sanctuary, Santuario della Madonna di Mongiovino near the town of Tavernelle in Umbria. Building of the church started in 1524 but was not completed until about 200 years later. The sanctuary was built to replace a chapel that contained the shrine with a "miraculous" image of the Madonna.
As usual, the lovely texture of the stonework shows up better on black.
Here's a link to a video of interior and exterior: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOgxuDc-n_8
Ancient House Doors . . High Street . . Biddenden . Two old doorways with the words 'Tate Door' above. Also a carved and painted head of a bearded man, said to have been taken from a wrecked ship of the Spanish Armada.
Photo © Jez
An ancient scene beside the beautiful Himeji Castle. Take a walk around the outer walls of the castle and you will come across some lovely ancient vistas.
Cyrene was an ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya. It was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times.
Cyrene was founded in 630 BC as a settlement of Greeks from the Greek island of Thera (Santorini).
Cyrene is referred to in the deuterocanonical book 2 Maccabees. The book of 2 Maccabees itself is said by its author to be an abridgment of a five-volume work by a Hellenized Jew by the name of Jason of Cyrene who lived around 100 BC.
Cyrene is also mentioned in the New Testament. A Cyrenian named Simon carried the cross of Christ.
Cyrene is now an archeological site near the village of Shahhat. One of its more significant features is the temple of Apollo which was originally constructed as early as 7th century BC. Other ancient structures include a temple to Demeter and a partially unexcavated temple to Zeus There is a large necropolis approximately 10 km between Cyrene and its ancient port of Apollonia. Since 1982, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2017 UNESCO added Cyrene to its List of World Heritage in Danger
"The names of the Corinthian harbours were given them by Leches and Cenchrias, said to be the children of Poseidon and Peirene [...]. In Cenchreae are a temple and a stone statue of Aphrodite, after it on the mole running into the sea, a bronze image of Poseidon, and at the other end of the harbour sanctuaries of Asclepius and of Isis. Right opposite Cenchreae is Helen's Bath. It is a large stream of salt, tepid water, flowing from a rock into the sea." (Pausanias 2.2.3)
Ancient Corinth had two ports, one on the Gulf of Corinth, one on the Saronic Gulf. Ships and/or their loads were dragged overland between them by way of the Diolkos. This roadway (6-8 km long) was a rudimentary form of railway, and operated from ca. 600 BCE until the middle of the 1st century CE. The Diolkos was a trackway paved with hard limestone with parallel grooves running about 1.60m apart. The tracks indicate that transport on the Diolkos was done with some sort of wheeled vehicle. Either vessel and cargo were hauled across on separate vehicles, or only the cargo was taken across and reloaded on a different ship at the other side of the Isthmus.
The ancient port town Kenchreai or Cenchreae (Ancient Greek: Κεγχρεαί), situated on the Saronic Gulf, served the trade routes to the east. It flourished in Roman times; the sea level was then roughly 4 metres lower. (from Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kechries
Hatra, Iraq. Arches of the main temple. (Temple of Baal Shamin (Shamash)). "Parthian Period" architecture. 23 March 1989.
Pharoah Taharqa recieves life from the gods; detail of a temple shrine, once part of a much larger complex at Kawa, Nubia (now in Sudan) built by the Nubian Pharoah Taharqa.
One of the country's finest museums, the Ashmolean covers all facets of ancient history across the globe up to the medieval period and beyond, along with a fine art collection from the Renaissance to the Pre Raphaelites.
The collections are housed in a magnificent neo-classical building by C.S.Cockerell which been recently re-ordered within to create dramatic new gallery spaces. The work recently concluded with the refurbishment of the Egyptian galleries, reopened in late 2011, with the exhibits displayed to far better advantage than before with improved space and lighting.
Humankind discovered his ancient Kauri in 2011, and other than a non-toxic water-based timber preservative, they left it untouched. Scientists are trying to determine if a volcanic eruption in the Pacific Ocean toppled the tree based on how it fell 120,000 years ago and the charred timber on the surface. This Kauri tree would have lived for around 1,000 years.
Why is the trunk flat? After the tree toppled, it sank into the earth, where it remained buried for over 100,000 years. Only the buried part remained preserved in the peat. The elements rotted away the section of the tree that was exposed.
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Aqueduto do Carvão. Maciço das Sete Cidades. Ilha de São Miguel, Açores (Azores).
siaram.azores.gov.pt/patrimonio-cultural/aquedutos-de-sao...
Photo by Zé Eduardo www.flickr.com/photos/97968921@N00/
Tell el Amarna is the site of something unique in Egypt's history, the brand new capital city by the 'heretic' pharaoh Amenophis IV, better known by the name Akhenaten. Today little remains of the ancient city beyond its foundations (largely hidden amidst the sand dunes), but its significance makes it one of the country's most important archaeological sites.
Akhenaten's reign is marked by a radical break with Egypt's ancient religion, the pharaoh abandoned the multitude of traditional gods in favour of a single deity, the Aten, the life giving sun-disc. A new city was built on a desert site, chosen for its proximity to a geographical feature that appeared to enfold the rising sun, and established to cement Egypt's revolution away from the priests and cult centre of Thebes. The city was named 'Akhetaten' and served as the cult centre of the pharoah's new religion with himself as the chief intermediary of the new god. Akhenaten is often celebrated as one of history's earliest monotheistic rulers.
The city had a short life, as did Akhenaten's new religion, with the traditional order and power base restored following his death under the reign of his son Tutankhaten (better known as Tutankhamun, the name he adopted after abandoning the Atenist religion). The site was plundered for materials over the following decades and little remains visible beyond the tombs carved into the nearby cliffs.
The palaces and the once great temple of Aten have all but disappeared, though two columns of the nearby small temple have been reconstructed in recent years. The desolate nature of the site has however preserved much of the city's layout, since unlike most ancient Egyptian settlements it remained uninhabited over the millennia.
For more on this intriguing site see below:-
The crypt of Lund's Cathedral. Mostly unchanged for the last 900 years.
This is a pretty commonly photographed subject so I took a few liberties with the presentation, both in Photomatix and Silver Efex.
Criado por Satoshi Kamiya
Dobrado por Arturo Fonseca
Papel: double-tissue (duas folhas de seda coladas com CMC), 48cm
Livro: Works of Satoshi Kamiya
Finally, after 7 years since I discovered this model, I managed to fold it! I had tried to fold it twice in the past but the paper that I used was horrible and I couldn't move forward. That is my first contact with the double-tissue paper. It's really thin but I thought it was a bit "slippy". Anyway, I am very happy with the result! :)
Finalmente, depois de mais ou menos 7 anos desde que eu conheci esse modelo, consegui dobra-lo! Já tinha tentado umas duas vezes no passado mas o papel que eu usava era muito ruim e eu não conseguia avançar. Esse é o meu primeiro contato com double-tissue, ele realmente é muito fino mas um pouco "escorregante" também. Enfim, estou muito feliz com o resultado. :)
Natural living art, This is the bark from the trunk of a 2000 year old yew tree growing in a church yard at Molash in Kent
Wikipedia: The Yew trees in the churchyard are 2,000 years old.
photo © Jeremy Sage
Ancient Aspendos......located to the east of Antalya and is famous for its best-preserved ancient amphitheater built in the 2nd century AD during the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The theater has a capacity of 15,000 people and is still used today for performances and festivals. Its galleries, stage decorations and acoustics all testify to its architect Xeno's success. Next to the stage there is a small room which is used as a small museum where you can see some of the masks and clay tickets from the ancient times. Just above the theater there is the acropolis with a great view of the river from the top, where you can see a basilica, an agora, a nymphaeum and and a bouleuterion (council), all of them in ruins. About one kilometer north of the town there is one of the largest Roman aqueducts in Anatolia which supplied Aspendos with water. The river passing next to the city is called Köprüçay (ancient Euromydon) and was navigable once upon a time. This was also the place where the Persians used to breed their horses between 6th-4th centuries B.C. during their rule in Asia Minor. According to the legend, Aspendos was first founded by Greek colonists who came to Pamphylia region after the Trojan War. There are also possibilities that the city could be founded by the Hittites. Aspendos was one of the cities in this region to mint silver coins under its own name. Together with their neighbors Perge, Aspendos was also left under the Persian rule between 6th and 5th centuries BC, then became a member of the Attic-Delos Maritime confederation after its liberation by the Athenians. But later in the 5th century BC Persians captured the city again and stayed there until the arrival of Alexander the Great in 333 BC. After the death of Alexander, the city was controlled by the Seleucids, and then the Kingdom of Pergamum until 133 B.C. when the Romans took over Pergamon.
The name Delphi comes from the same root as δελφύς delphys, "womb" and may indicate archaic veneration of Gaia at the site. Apollo is connected with the site by his epithet Δελφίνιος Delphinios, "the Delphinian". The epithet is connected with dolphins (Greek δελφίς,-ῖνος) in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (line 400), recounting the legend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back. (Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi)
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