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Super high resolution image of the Ancient Ones, on the top of the brae. Formed by 12 stacked images in a “round the clock” pattern, using the full 11mm of shift on a SMC Pentax K 28mm Shift Lens. To be stacked and merged in Photoshop to form this final image.
The Ancient Fig Garden in Tarring West Sussex dates from 1745 but the original fig tree was planted by Thomas A Becket in 1162. It is believed that this tree still exists in the garden.
The garden is only open to the public for one day in the year on the first Saturday in July.
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different colours for a more ancient look which also makes the structures come out more.
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Toady, an image of the Ancient Roman Forum in Rome, Italy.
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Ancient Kremna......Thirteen km southeast of Bucak, the remote mountainside site of Kremna was originally settled by the warlike Psidians who also settled nearby Sagalassos and Termessos. Inevitably, though, what you see at the site today dates from after it was absorbed into the Roman Empire in 25BC on the death of the Galatian ruler Amyntas who had made it part of his kingdom. Kremna apparently means "cliff" in Ancient Greek and as soon as you reach the site you will understand why. At the end of a partially tarmacked track you find yourself facing ruins that back straight onto a plug of rock rising straight up from a meadow. It's a glorious location, utterly wild and remote, and from it the Psidians would have had the most fantastic view of anybody. It's easy to think this is a timeless view but in fact the lake you will see from the summit was formed recently by the Karacaören Barajı (Dam). The surviving ruins are actually quite slight. The most obvious surviving structure is an enclosed square with huge niches at the back and a series of plinths with Greek inscriptions that presumably once supported statues. This is believed to have been a library. Other than that there are the standing remains of a monumental gateway and some tiered steps that may once have been a bouleterion (council house). What was presumably the agora is now a mass of fallen grey masonry, much of it carved.
Located just north of Whistler, the Ancient Cedars Trail follows a scenic, forested route that ends in a grove of massive old-growth cedar trees. The trailhead begins 4.5km up the Cougar Mountain forest service road, a gravel road that is accessible in the summer.
Silbury Hill and to the right , hay bales ..
"Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. At 39.3 metres (129 ft) high,it is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe and one of the largest in the world; similar in size to some of the smaller Egyptian pyramids of the Giza Necropolis.
Silbury Hill is part of the complex of Neolithic monuments around Avebury, which includes the Avebury Ring and West Kennet Long Barrow. Its original purpose is still debated. Several other important Neolithic monuments in Wiltshire in the care of English Heritage, including the large henges at Marden and Stonehenge, may be culturally or functionally related to Avebury and Silbury"
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Dusk light shines over the Roman theater, situated in the Aspendos, an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya province, Central Anatolia region of Turkey.
Aspendos is known for having the best-preserved theatre of antiquity. With a diameter of 96 metres (315 ft), the theatre provided seating for 12,000.
The theatre was built in 155 by the Greek architect Zenon, a native of the city. It was periodically repaired by the Seljuqs, who used it as a caravanserai, and in the 13th century the stage building was converted into a palace by the Seljuqs of Rum.
In order to keep with Hellenistic traditions, a small part of the theatre was built so that it leaned against the hill where the Citadel (Acropolis) stood, while the remainder was built on vaulted arches. The high stage served to seemingly isolate the audience from the rest of the world. The 'scaenae frons' or backdrop, has remained intact. The 8.1 metre (27 ft) sloping reflective wooden ceiling over the stage has been lost over time. Post holes for 58 masts are found in the upper level of the theatre. These masts supported a velarium or awning that could be pulled over the audience to provide shade.
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The Ancient Ram Inn, Wotton-under-Edge. Gloucestershire.
A grade II* listed building built in 1145 and reputedly one of the most haunted buildings in the UK. It has featured in the paranormal investigation TV programmes "Most Haunted" and "Ghost Adventures".
Date taken: 2nd May 2018.
Album: Things That Aren't Cars
I dont know what to call this guy (or girl). Suggestions for a title / name are welcome.
This was a relatively quick figure compared to my last custom.
The gold paint used are the new colours now available from citadel paints (Warhammer). They are quality paints. I think my next figure will incorporate them as well.
What do you think?
A decoration in the bar area of the Ancient Ram Inn, Wotton-under-Edge, reputedly one of the most haunted places in Britain.
Ancient Tralles.....According to Strabo Tralles was founded by the Argives and Trallians, a Thracian tribe. Along with the rest of Lydia, the city fell to the Persian Empire. After its success against Athens in the Peloponnesian War, Sparta unsuccessfully sought to take the city from the Persians, but in 334 BC, Tralles surrendered to Alexander the Great without resistance and therefore was not sacked. Alexander's general Antigonus held the city from 313 to 301 BC and later the Seleucids held the city until 190 BC when it fell to Pergamon. From 133 to 129 BC, the city supported Aristonicus of Pergamon, a pretender to the Pergamene throne, against the Romans. After the Romans defeated him, they revoked the city's right to mint coins. Tralles was a conventus for a time under the Roman Republic, but Ephesus later took over that position. The city was taken by rebels during the Mithridatic War during which many Roman inhabitants were killed. Tralles suffered greatly from an earthquake in 26 BC. Augustus provided funds for its reconstruction after which the city thanked him by renaming itself Caesarea. Strabo describes the city as a prosperous trading center, listing famous residents of the city, including Pythodoros (native of Nysa), and orators Damasus Scombrus and Dionysocles. Several centuries later, Anthemius of Tralles, architect of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, was born in Tralles. An early bishop Polybius (fl. ca. 105) is attested by a letter from Saint Ignatius of Antioch to the church at Tralles. The city was officially Christianized, along with the rest of Caria, early after the conversion of Constantine, at which time the see was confirmed. Among the recorded bishops are: Heracleon (431), Maximus (451), Uranius (553), Myron (692), Theophylactus (787), Theophanes and Theopistus both ninth century, and John (1230). The Catholic Church includes this bishopric in its list of titular sees as Tralles in Asia, distinguishing it from the see of Tralles in Lydia. It has appointed no new titular bishop to these Eastern sees since the Second Vatican Council. After the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, with the Byzantine Empire was in civil chaos, the Seljuks took Tralles for the first time but Alexios I Komnenos re-captured the city for Byzantium in the later half of the eleventh century. By the 13th century, the city lay in ruins. In 1278, Andronikos II Palaiologos decided to rebuild and repopulate it, now to be renamed Andronikopolis or Palaiologopolis, with the aim of forming a bulwark against Turkish encroachment in the area. The megas domestikos Michael Tarchaneiotes was given the task: he rebuilt the walls and settled 36,000 people from the surrounding regions. 13th century Byzantine settlement policy along the Meander Valley notably involved the Turkic Cumans.[7] Nevertheless, Turkish attacks resumed soon after. The city was besieged and, lacking sufficient supplies and access to water, captured by the beylik of Menteshe in 1284. The city suffered extensive destruction and part of its inhabitants were massacred.[8] Moreover, over 20,000 inhabitants were sold off as slaves.
coated with lichen in dense sea fog atop a coastal hill. Made from Precambrian rocks of the Canadian Shield. From its perch in peneplained tundra, it may have been overlooking Hudson Bay when European whalers first chanced by.
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More inuksuit? please see my "Venture into the Arctic" gallery.
Notice the complete absence of trees? Ground that remains frozen all year round is called tundra. The cause is permafrost, which is the "mark of the white dragon" left behind by continental glaciation, now retreated to the nether regions of Arctic Canada. All of Nunavut lies north of the tree-line. The treeline is 200 km south of this locale while remnant polar ice caps in the High Arctic are another 1000 km north.
20% of the northern hemisphere falls within the realm of permafrost. When you are standing upon continental or alpine tundra, you are standing -in- the Ice Age.
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I'm assuming this is a headstone, though it had no inscription and was right up against the wall of the church.
116 pictures in 2016 (108) shape with more than four sides
On the north side of the nave of the church some of the supporting reused red granit columns have survived and the steps of a stone pulpit can still be seen.
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
Ancient Phaselis....(Greek: Φασηλίς) was an ancient Greek and Roman city on the coast of Lycia. Its ruins are located north of the modern town Tekirova in the Kemer district of Antalya Province in Turkey. It lies between the Bey Mountains and the forests of Olympos National Park, 16 km south of the tourist town of Kemer and on the 57th kilometre of the Antalya–Kumluca highway. Phaselis and other ancient towns around the shore can also be accessed from the sea by daily yacht tours. The town was set up by the Rhodians in 700 BC. Because of its location on an isthmus separating two harbours, it became the most important harbour city of eastern Lycia and an important centre of commerce between Greece, Asia, Egypt, and Phoenicia, although it did not belong to the Lycian League. The city was captured by Persians after they conquered Asia Minor, and was later captured by Alexander the Great. After the death of Alexander, the city remained in Egyptian hands from 209 BC to 197 BC, under the dynasty of Ptolemaios, and with the conclusion of the Apamea treaty, was handed over to the Kingdom of Rhodes, together with the other cities of Lycia. From 190 BC to 160 BC it remained under Rhodeian hegemony, but after 160 BC it was absorbed into the Lycian confederacy under Roman rule. Phaselis, like Olympos, was under constant threat from pirates in the 1st century BC, and the city was even taken over by the pirate Zekenites for a period until his defeat by the Romans. In 42 BC Brutus had the city linked to Rome. In the 3rd century AD, the harbor fell under the threat of pirates once again. So it began to lose importance, suffering further losses at the hands of Arab ships, until totally impoverished in the 11th century. When the Seljuqs began to concentrate on Alanya and Antalya as ports, Phaselis ceased to be a port of any note. There was a temple of Athene at Phaselis, where the lance of Achilles was exhibited. It was the birthplace of the poet and orator Theodectes. It was also renowned for its roses, from which the essence was extracted. its roses, from which the essence was extracted.[1]