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ancient olivetrees on a hillside near Pallarols- La Senia. These are some of the tallest olivetrees with the biggest trunks in this area- the gentle slope of the hillside was covered with grass and poppies. Most olive growers clear the ground with herbicides or cover it with gravel, to make the harvest more convenient. it was nice to see the grasscover.
The Ancient Agora is after the Acropolis Hill with the Parthenon the most important archaeological site to visit in Athens, Greece. For around 800 years, this square surrounded by monumental buildings was the political, commercial, and cultural center of Athens.
Highlights of a visit to the Ancient Agora of Athens include the beautifully preserved Temple of Hephaistos and a small but interesting museum in the reconstructed Stoa of Attalos. The rest of the archaeological site is mostly only the foundations of former monumental buildings. Some played a very important role in the development and functioning of democracy.
Admission to the Ancient Agora in Athens is included in the 5-Day Combined Ticket.
The 5-Day Combined Ticket includes entry to the most important archaeological sites in Athens:
- Acropolis & Slopes (including Parthenon)
- Kerameikos
- Hadrian's Library
- Olympieion (Temple of Zeus)
- Roman Agora (Forum)
- Aristotle's School (Lyceum)
Hello boys and girls (or whatever),
So I found myself in this ancient library when I was visiting the German/French city Wissembourg, which lies literally on the border of Germany and France. I was given a nice tour of the church and the grounds with it, when I spotted a small gap in the giant Fresco of Christoffel, which turned out to be the very largest of all the fresco's in France. The tourguide told me that behond the gap laid the ancient library and the gap was meant as a spying hole. After I convinced the tourguide that I was genuinely interested (I do study Greek and Latin Languages), I was allowed a little peek in the library. She told me that there hadn't been a single person in this room for over 30 years, which made me feel very excited! I ended up holding a genuine second print of a handwritten book of the Iliad and the Odyssee by Homer, which I laid on the therefore meant studyplank and took this shot. I really felt like a crosstype of Harry Potter and Indiana Jones when leaving the room! Extraordinary experience and I hope great photo! Sorry for the way too long story... I guess you'll just have to blame my overenthousiasm! See ya!
Goodrich Bridge
The bridge and landscape are gloriously old, what a shame about modern industry having to spoil the view.
Chiba City Folk Museum, built in ancient style of Chiba Castle, Chiba, Japan. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
35/52 for the group 2020 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: I is for Invention
I've had this keyboard since the 90s and I still love it. It needs a couple of converters these days so I can connect it to my new computer thanks to the invention of these converters. :-)
From the Portland Art Museum.
Han and pre–Han objects from the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection of Early Chinese Art
Ephesus, Turkey.
Inscriptions of the side of the Gate of Mazeus.
"The gate between the Library of Celsus and the mercantile Agora was built by 2 slaves freed by Emperor Augustus in 3 BC. The inscriptions on top of the gate indicate Mazaeus and Mithridates, the two freed slaves, wished to honor the Imperial family. Statues of the Emperor and his family would have stood mounted above this inscription."
Galleries of Ancient Greece and Italy, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Selçuk is the central town of Selçuk district, İzmir Province in Turkey, 2 kilometres (1 mile) northeast of the ancient city of Ephesus. Its original Greek name, Agios Theologos (Άγιος Θεολόγος) referred to John the Theologian. In the 14th century, it was the capital of the Emirate of Aydin. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was known as Ayasoluk (Ottoman Turkish: Ayasluğ). In 1914, it was renamed Selçuk after the Seljuk Turks who first led incursions into the region in the 12th century. It was a township in Kuşadası district till 1954 and Torbalı between 1954-1957. It finally became a district in 1957. Its neighbours are Torbalı from north, Tire from northeast, Germencik from east, Kuşadası from south, Aegean Sea from west and Menderes (formerly Cumaovası) from northwest. Selçuk is one of the most visited tourist destinations within Turkey, known for its closeness to the ancient city of Ephesus, House of the Virgin Mary and Seljuk works of art. The 6th century Basilica of St. John the Apostle, which, some claim, is built on the site of the Apostle's tomb, is also inside the town. The old quarter of Selçuk retains much traditional Turkish culture. Ayasoluk Hill dominates the surrounding area, with several historical buildings on its slopes, including the İsa Bey Mosque built by the Aydinids in 1375, and the Grand Fortress.
Ancient laundry in San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato, México.
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Ancient Side....The ruins of ancient Side are among of the most spectacular that remain in the modern world and showcase hundreds of years of Greek life in the Roman Empire. Its coastal location made Side a desirable trading port and, despite the prominence of piracy, Greek settlers flocked to the city around the sixth century BC. Unusually, this resulted in the preservation, rather than destruction, of the native culture and Side became a cultural melting pot - indeed, many original inscriptions found at the site today are written in the indecipherable native language. Hellenic influence in Side grew, however, and it was under Roman rule that the city really flourished - even gaining repute as the best slave market of the period. Many of the Roman ruins still remain, and the city has become a popular destination for eager explorers interested in discovering the rich history of the ancient Mediterranean. Today, this ancient metropolis showcases the skill with which the Romans were able to seamlessly combine elements of Greek culture, which they so admired, with their own recognisable Roman stamp of identity. Certainly, when Titus Flamininus declared the ‘freedom of the Greeks’ in 196BC he would not have imagined that the two cultures would have merged so comprehensibly centuries later. Reflecting this combined cultural legacy, and ranking among the most prominent sites at Side is the 2nd century AD ancient theatre. A unique example of fusion design, it was born out of this combination of Hellenic plans and Roman construction. Moreover, the theatre’s decoration dates to the period of the Antonine Emperors and the exterior columns tell the story of Dionysus (or Bacchus in Roman), the Greek God of wine and patron of the theatre. Among Side’s other fascinating remains are the temples to Apollo and Athena, which are picturesquely perched at the very tip of Side’s harbour. The sight of these ancient columns set against the picture-perfect Mediterranean sea makes for an ideal sightseeing spot. If that isn’t enough, the archaeological site at Side also features the remnants of the colonnaded main street, Roman baths, a nymphaeum and a Hellenic gate that decorates the exterior walls. The nearby museum is an ancient site in itself, being housed within a baths complex dating back to the second century AD, and contains many of the finds discovered during excavations of the ruins in the mid-twentieth century.
St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church, also known as the Ancient Spanish Monastery, was originally built between 1133 and 1141 in Segovia, Spain. The monastery was illegally purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1926, who brought most of the structure to Brooklyn, piece by piece. The pieces sat in a warehouse for many years before being reassembled in its current location.
Ancient Spanish Monastery. Miami, Florida.
The three women were not Egyptian, and were perhaps Semitic - Maruta may be a hieroglyphic rendering of the more familiar Hebrew name Marta.
Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Thebes. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Tutmosis III c.1479-1425 BCE.
CARTHAGE, Libyan Revolt. Circa 241-238 BC. AV Half Shekel (16mm, 3.82 g, 12h). Head of Tanit left, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace / Horse standing right; Punic z and one stroke (= numeral 21 [date?]) above, Punic m below. Carradice & La Niece –; Jenkins & Lewis Group XI, 449 var. (no stroke after Punic z); MAA 35b var. (same). EF, some scuffs and scratches on obverse. Very rare issue, and a seemingly unrecorded variant.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 193.
Carradice and La Niece suggest that this issue was possibly used as payment to Carthaginian mercenary soldiers returning to Africa after they were evacuated from Sicily, as described by Polybius (i. 66).
CNG100, 31
Knox College students in the History of Ancient Greece course, in a workshop that compared battle tactics of ancient Greek, Roman and Celtic armies, developed by student Tim Berner as an independent study project in the history of ancient warfare. More info: www.knox.edu/news/news-archive/students-of-ancient-warfar...
The discovery of the nude figurine in Germany, now dated at 35,000 years, is interesting not because it confers bragging rights on Europe, or implies that "real" human beings emerged during some Paleolithic Big Bang. That data point is more complex than that. The first and most important thing about the object is that it implies that a consciousness similar to our own at an even further point in the past than previously thought. McWhorter is sketching out an idea that consciousness similar to our own coincided with the emergence of homo sapiens as a sub-species, in Africa, and 150,000 years ago. Maybe, maybe not.
But we have no record of this: we do have the archaeological record in Europe. What is more interesting about the discovery is that the artifact may be connected with the Neanderthal presence in Europe, and the Neanderthal hominids split off from the human tree several hundred thousand years before homo sapiens even evolved in East Africa, and were active in Europe and West Asia for tens of thousands of years before homo sapiens showed up.
Is McWhorter willing to concede the possibility that the development of homo sapiens today may have been due to interaction with other hominids -- not just Neanderthals -- who evolved much earlier, and who also were distributed throughout the Eurasian continent? Or is he simply attempting to confer bragging rights on Africa in response to perceived Euro-centrism?
I just think it's interesting that there were doable hominids 37,000 years ago. Why can't we all just get along and enjoy that? That humans of 40,000 years ago with roughly the same cognitive apparatus as ourselves would be far more interested in the business of nooky ought to come as little surprise. To be human is to be concerned with screwing. Not just to do it, but to be concerned about it. That our earliest examples of art would reflect sexual obsession is downright poetic. It fits in quite nicely with all the other developments, the "major, mutation-driven reorganization in the cognitive capacities of the human brain," that were happening around the time that the Venus was carved. Having more complicated brains and caring about sex are not, all joking aside, conflicting developments. To the contrary, it would be hard to imagine calling any early hominid truly human without thinking of it as a sexual being.