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This specimen in Tenerife is the oldest known to man, about 1000 years old and 18 meters (60 feet) tall.
The red sap of this plant, the "dragon blood", was believed to have magic powers.
This is a very high resolution photo (7008x7008 pixels) made of 20 stitched shots using a 100mm f/2 lens. The final image is equivalent to 50mm f/1.
See also my newer, ultra high resolution version (400 MP) taken in 2014.
This is a photo of a picture in a book on Mayan/Aztec history. It was so cool I just had to play with it some and give it a 3-D quality to enhance the sculpture!
Question: What's missing? Answer: Hammersmith & City Line (a relatively recent re-brand of what was the Metropolitan Line service from Hammersmith to Whitechapel (and Barking). This frieze at Euston Square shows the Met and Circle Lines only.
Pleasingly (very), the font on the frieze is the original Johnston.
I suspect the woman on the seat thinks I'm photographing her. Don't flatter yourself, love.
Ancient Olympia | Greece | 18 October 2021
Beijing 2022 - Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame held in Ancient Olympia
Copyright: IOC/Greg Martin
Detail of an iceberg, Cuverville Island, Antarctica. Blue icebergs usually develop from older and deeper glaciers.
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''Ain Dara is most famous for the extraordinary Aramaean temple, which crowns its acropolis. The temple, dating from 1300 to 740 BC. Ain Dara was first established and founded as a principality in the northern region of Syria after the invasion of the ''Sea Peoples'' in the first millennium BC. It then fell into the hands of the Greeks under the Seleucid Empire and later on was occupied by the Umayyads.''
I'm not sure how old this painting is, but it looks old to me. (maybe not ancient, I'm not sure how that's quantified)
There's a bunch of paintings in this style, in the building that houses the giant, reclining Buddha.
I also made a kaleidoscopic video from this photo... youtu.be/HXuT8yKwut0
Ancient Messini is one of the most significant ancient cities in terms of its size, structure and state of preservation and still has much to be discovered. Along with the sanctuaries and public buildings it has imposing fortifications, dwellings and burial sites. It has, amongst other things the rare advantage of never having been destroyed or covered by later settlements and sits in an unspoiled inland site in a natural Mediterranean environment. This natural environment combines the mountain grandeur of Delphi and the low riverside serenity of Olympia, the dominating bare limestone mass of Mount Ithome, the ancient acropolis and the low fertile plain spread below the ancient city.
Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth.
Galleries Contain.
Prehistoric pottery, figurines, and tools.
Geometric, Archaic, and Classical periods
Roman statues of rulers, floor mosaics, wall paintings
Roman and Byzantine pottery, also weapons.
Votives from the Asklepieion at Ancient Corinth.
Unfortunately, you are not allowed to take a picture of the Twin Kouroi, one of the top works.
(but you can see it on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_Museum_of_Ancient_Co...)
Ruins of an ancient military observation post around 340 BC located up in the mountains and overlooking the Ionian sea.
Poulnabrone Dolmen, Clare, Ireland.
Poulnabrone Dolmen (Poll na mBrón in Irish meaning "hole of sorrows") is one of the most beautiful megalithic monuments in Ireland. It is a portal tomb erected around 2,500 BC, situated in the impressive karst-landscape of The Burren, County Clare.
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Greek History exhibit, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
ancient dragon designed by Satoshi Kamiya and folded by me from one 64 by 64cm square sheet of VOG paper.
Model: Ancient Dragon
Designer: Satoshi Kamiya
This model was folded from diagrams. Here's a close up of the model. This model turned out much smaller than I expected it to. Additionally, the paper didn't really suit the model well but I tried to make it work.
I didn't want to fold my interpretation just like Kamiya's but I really like this model in red and the pose Kamiya folded looks great too.
Lastly, I folded the model with belly pleats. However, this was the first time that I folded the model and the pleats ended up being partially hidden by the rear legs.
From my files-- a slingshot used during the World War 2 era and preserved at the museum in Rota, CNMI
I wonder who had the guts to use this one against the bombs and canons the Japanese? or some unsuspecting birds perhaps>?
Museum of Cham Sculpture, Da Nang, Central Vietnam. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
"Thrones were set up
and the Ancient One took his throne.
His clothing was snow bright,
and the hair on his head as white as wool;
His throne was flames of fire,
with wheels of burning fire.
A surging stream of fire
flowed out from where he sat;
Thousands upon thousands were ministering to him,
and myriads upon myriads attended him."
– Dan 7:9, which is part of today's 1st reading at Mass.
My sermon for today can be read here.
Stained glass detail from King's College chapel, Cambridge.
Mintage: 6,236
This is a harder date to find in Gem Uncirculated than the 1881 and 1882 although it generally brings little if any premium.
This piece was struck from lightly clashed dies and it has a completely frosty texture with no mirror-like reflectiveness. The color is excellent with mixtures of green-gold and orange seen on the obverse and reverse.
Ancient Olympia | Greece | 18 October 2021
Beijing 2022 - Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame held in Ancient Olympia
Copyright: IOC/Greg Martin
COUNTY CARLOW, IRELAND. 25th JUNE 2009.
It is also called the Browneshill Dolmen, but is officially known as the Kernanstown Cromlech. It is sited on a hill on which sits the former estate house of the Browne family from which the hill takes its name
History
It was built between 4000 and 3000 BC by some of the earliest farmers to inhabit the island. It is also known as Brownshill Portal Tomb, so-called because the entrance to the burial chamber was flanked by two large upright stones (orthostats) supporting the granite capstone, or roof, of the chamber. The capstone is thought to have been covered by an earthen mound and a gate stone blocked the entrance. At Brownshill both portal stones and the gate-stone are still in situ; the capstone lies on top of the portals and gate-stone and slopes to the ground away from the entrance. Not much additional information is available on Brownshill because it has never been excavated.[1] A fourth upright stands close by and could be the remains of a forecourt. The extent of the chamber cannot be determined.
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500 year old oak tree near the Mas de Maña. There were many old trees, but this one was the grandfather of them all.
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500 Jahre alte Eiche in der Nähe der Mas de Maña. Es hatte viele alte Bäume, aber diese Eiche war der Grossvater ...
The Roman Army Barracks were busy crowded places. There was constant bustle and activity on most days, with soldiers training, marching to guard duty, delivering food and equipment or working on maintenance.
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Side Ancient City
Side (Greek: Σίδη) is an ancient Greek city on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in the country. It lies near Manavgat and the village of Selimiye, 78 km from Antalya in the province of Antalya.
It is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20 km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River. Today, as in antiquity, the ancient city is situated on a small north-south peninsula about 1 km long and 400 m across
History[edit]
Strabo and Arrian both record that Side was founded by Greek settlers from Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia. This most likely occurred in the 7th century BC. Its tutelary deity was Athena, whose head adorned its coinage.
Dating from the tenth century B.C., its coinage bore the head of Athena (Minerva), the patroness of the city, with a legend. Its people, a piratical horde, quickly forgot their own language to adopt that of the aborigines.
Possessing a good harbour for small-craft boats, Side's natural geography made it one of the most important places in Pamphylia and one of the most important trade centres in the region. According to Arrian, when settlers from Cyme came to Side, they could not understand the dialect. After a short while, the influence of this indigenous tongue was so great that the newcomers forgot their native Greek and started using the language of Side. Excavations have revealed several inscriptions written in this language. The inscriptions, dating from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, remain undeciphered, but testify that the local language was still in use several centuries after colonisation. Another object found in the excavations at Side, a basalt column base from the 7th century BC and attributable to the Neo-Hittites, provides further evidence of the site's early history. The name Side may be Anatolian in origin, meaning pomegranate.
Next to no information exists concerning Side under Lydian and Persian sovereignty.
Alexander the Great
Vespasian Gate
Temple of Apollo
Alexander the Great occupied Side without a struggle in 333 BC. Alexander left only a single garrison behind to occupy the city. This occupation, in turn, introduced the people of Side to Hellenistic culture, which flourished from the 4th to the 1st century BC. After Alexander's death, Side fell under the control of one of Alexander's generals, Ptolemy I Soter, who declared himself king of Egypt in 305 BC. The Ptolemaic dynasty controlled Side until it was captured by the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BC. Yet, despite these occupations, Side managed to preserve some autonomy, grew prosperous, and became an important cultural centre.
Walls of the ancient theatre of Side
In 190 BC a fleet from the Greek island city-state of Rhodes, supported by Rome and Pergamum, defeated the Seleucid King Antiochus the Great's fleet, which was under the command of the fugitive Carthaginian general Hannibal. The defeat of Hannibal and Antiochus the Great meant that Side freed itself from the overlord-ship of the Seleucid Empire. The Treaty of Apamea (188 BC) forced Antiochus to abandon all European territories and to cede all of Asia Minor north of the Taurus Mountains to Pergamum. However, the dominion of Pergamum only reached de facto as far as Perga, leaving Eastern Pamphylia in a state of uncertain freedom. This led Attalus II Philadelphus to construct a new harbour in the city of Attalia (the present Antalya), although Side already possessed an important harbour of its own. Between 188 and 36 BC Side minted its own money, tetradrachms showing Nike and a laurel wreath (the sign of victory).
In the 1st century BC, Side reached a peak when the Cilician pirates established their chief naval base and a centre for their slave-trade.
Romans
The consul Servilius Vatia defeated these brigands in 78 BC and later the Roman general Pompey in 67 BC, bringing Side under the control of Rome and beginning its second period of ascendancy, when it established and maintained a good working relationship with the Roman Empire.
Emperor Augustus reformed the state administration and placed Pamphylia and Side in the Roman province of Galatia in 25 BC, after the short reign of Amyntas of Galatia between 36 and 25 BC. Side began another prosperous period as a commercial centre in Asia Minor through its trade in olive oil. Its population grew to 60,000 inhabitants. This period would last well into the 3rd century AD. Side also established itself as a slave-trading centre in the Mediterranean. Its large commercial fleet engaged in acts of piracy, while wealthy merchants paid for such tributes as public works, monuments, and competitions as well as the games and gladiator fights. Most of the extant ruins at Side date from this period of prosperity.
One of the maps (portolani) of Piri Reis, taken from the Kitab-i Bahriye, which Piri produced in several editions, supplementing in 1520, but integrating it into subsequent editions.
Side was the home of Eustathius of Antioch, of the philosopher Troilus, of the fifth-century ecclesiastical writer Philip; of the famous lawyer Tribonian