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St Margaret Pattens is rather overshadowed by the Walkie Talkie tower.
St Margaret Pattens was built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1687 following the destruction of an earlier building by the Great Fire of London in 1666. The church is dedicated to Margaret of Antioch. Pattens were raised wooden undershoes that people wore to keep their feet clear of the muddy streets of the City. Such shoes were made nearby
The Walkie Talkie (20 Fenchurch Street) is one of a recent slew of very tall, oddly shaped buildings that have added to the City like a civic codpiece. The concave front of the building caused the sun's rays to be reflected down to the street below cars and damaged cars. The matting covering the windows was subsequently added.
Negoub, Iraq. Assyrian water channel linking Great Zab River to Nimrud (ancient Kalhu, Calah, Kalakh). Constructed in 8th Century BCE. Photo 22 May 1989.
Probably part of one of the earliest Qanat systems.
So dig this.
It's a picture of a bust my hero Julius Caesar that has just been found in the Arno river in France outside Arles, a town he founded. It is from 44 BC, 2 years before he was wrongfully and brutally murdered, which makes it the only bust in existence. Also the only that was made while he was alive.
When previously known busts were carved, the style was to flatter and idealize the subject, but this bust is all about realism, wrinkly head and receding hair line and all.
Even with the broken nose, I just like staring at it.
Archaeologists say there's lots more where they found this. Who knows what they might find.
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, provide security for a provincial reconstruction team and representatives of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization visiting the ancient city of Ashur, Iraq, Nov. 21, 2008. The site, known as Qalat Shergat, is one of three areas in Iraq that is a World Heritage site. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. JoAnn S. Makinano.
Calcite shabti of Pharaoh Ramses III, created in Egypt about 1184 to 1153 BC. Found in Egypt, the location is not clear.
Shabti were funerary figurines placed in a tomb. Should the deceased be called upon to do manual labor in the afterlife, the deceased could call upon the shabti to do the work for them. Vast numbers of shabti would be created for a pharaoh, or nobleman.
Shabti were inscribed with the deceased's name, and the phrase "I am here and will come wherever you bid me." Shabti also often had quotations from the sixth chapter of the Book of the Dead written on them.
New Ancient Worlds Galleries (Under Construction)
Work has started on the Manchester Museum's new Ancient Worlds galleries, due to be opening on 31st October 2012 to mark the centenary of the first Egypt gallery to be opened at the Museum.
The three new galleries will replace the Ancient Egypt, Mediterranean and Archaeology galleries and will include artifacts from the museum's collections from Manchester and the region, and from ancient civilizations such as Greece, Rome and Egypt.
It is 25 years since the galleries were last changed. Ancient Worlds will showcase the best of the museum's outstanding archaeology collections and reveal the people behind the objects: who made them, who used them, who lost and re-discovered them, who collected, classified and interpreted them.
The three new galleries will be;
- Discovering Archaeology
Examining our relationship with the past, how we know about it through a wide range of archaeological techniques, and how our understanding is coloured by the world today. The feel will be one of discovery and exploration: a stimulating 'Resource Centre' full of intriguing information.
- Egyptian World
This will take visitors on a journey through the landscape, customs and practices of the ancient Egyptians. The museum acknowledges that people are fascinated by ancient Egypt and the new displays will bring this key period and place to life in a dramatic and thought-provoking way.
- Exploring Objects
This will reveal the full richness of the museum's archaeology collections through 'visible storage' with a difference. Dense displays will allow a broader range of objects to be on show. Imaginative grouping of artifacts will invite visitors to consider new approaches to understanding the past.
Ani - ancient capital of Armenia. Eatsern Turkey In the X century there was about hundred thousand people living in the city. It was destroyed by turks around XII cent. Nowadays it is right on the border with Armenia but on the turkish side of it. Most of churches with its frescs are from the X century, but left withot any attention of turkish government for ages.
Ancient city @ Rome, Itlay 2011
Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world.
In its centuries of existence, Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy to an oligarchic republic to an increasingly autocratic empire. It came to dominate South-Western Europe, South-Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and the Mediterranean region through conquest and assimilation.
Plagued by internal instability and attacked by various migrating peoples, the western part of the empire, including Italy, Hispania, Gaul, Britannia and Africa broke up into independent kingdoms in the 5th century AD. This splintering is the landmark historians use to divide the ancient period from the medieval era and the "Dark Ages".
The Eastern Roman Empire survived this crisis and was governed from Constantinople after Diocletian divided the Empire in 286 AD. It comprised Greece, the Balkans, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt. Despite the later loss of Syria and Egypt to the Arab-Islamic Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire continued for another millennium, until its remains were finally annexed by the emerging Turkish Ottoman Empire. This eastern, Christian, medieval stage of the empire is usually called the Byzantine Empire by historians.
Roman civilization is often grouped into "classical antiquity" with ancient Greece, a civilization that, along with the Etruscan civilization and the many other civilizations they conquered and assimilated, inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome. Ancient Rome contributed greatly to government, law, war, art, literature, architecture, technology, religion, and language in the Western world, and its history continues to have a major influence on the world today.
Galleries of Ancient Greece and Italy, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Faux bronze sculpted polymer clay pendant with an ammonite (extinct cephalopod), moss jasper, and tiger's eye gemstone beads. Expanding my cephalopod obsession out into the fossil record.
This compressor was at the moto repair shop last week. I thought it looked like a compressor from the 70's.
I liked the colour play between the notes of orange and the accents of light blue.
The Philae temple was converted into a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, until that was closed by Muslim invaders in the 7th century.
Malgré le séisme de juillet les ruines de l'ancien agora n'ont pas trop souffert. Les colonnes l'arche et l'ancienne porte sont encore debout. Belle visite ou l'on peut voir ça et là des mosaïques au sol.
I found this Commodore 64 in my parents' attic. Their house is about to be sold and I am cleaning it out. Imagine my surprise when I was able to turn the computer on and, with a little help from YouTube, load Donkey Kong off a thirty year-old floppy disk. The attic isn't climate controlled. So that's a lot of heat, humidity and winter cold. Pretty amazing.
Ancient Olympia, Greece. Photo taken with Nokia N8 (12 Megapixel).
Αρχαία Ολυμπία. Φωτογραφία που τράβηξα με το Nokia N8.
The Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: Ὀλύμπια Olympia,[1][2][3][4][5][6] "the Olympics" also Ancient Greek: Ὀλυμπιάς Olympias[4][5][6][7] "the Olympiad") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC.[8] They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in 393 AD as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the State religion of Rome. The games were held every four years, or olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies.
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Maddy controls the Ancient Empires timeline using a scrollable, custom-built stretch touch monitor to control the changing maps of Egypt, Mediterranean Europe, and the Near East displayed above in 4K resolution on a 65” ultra high-definition screen.
Ideum designed and developed the software for this exhibit based on research conducted by Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium and Milwaukee Public Museum. Ideum also designed and built the specialized, ultra-wide stretch touch monitor. We previously built identical monitors for use as digital reading rails at the Field Museum in Chicago.
On the Ides of March 2015, Milwaukee Public Museum debuted its new Crossroads of Civilization permanent gallery. Ideum created four new exhibits for Crossroads of Civilization: an interactive map of ancient empires, a timeline of the ancient world displayed across three touch walls, a life-sized mummy CAT scan, and an ultra high-resolution 3D model of the Medinet Habu Temple in Luxor, Egypt.
To learn more about Ideum’s Creative Services, please visit our website.
The architecture of the Temple of Olympian Zeus is of Corinthian order on a colossal platform measuring 110min length and approximately44m in width. Out of the original 104 columns made of Pentelic marble, each 17 meters (56 feet) high only 15 remain standing today to give a sense of the enormous size of the temple. Inside the temple there was a gigantic gold and ivory statue of Zeus which does not exist today.
UNESCO World Heritage, Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty
Seooreung Royal Tomb
June 17, 2015
Seooreung, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Korean Culture and Information Service
Korea.net (www.korea.net)
Official Photographer : Jeon Han
This official Republic of Korea photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way. Also, it may not be used in any type of commercial, advertisement, product or promotion that in any way suggests approval or endorsement from the government of the Republic of Korea.
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유네스코 세계문화유산 조선왕릉
서오릉
2015-06-17
서오릉
문화체육관광부
해외문화홍보원
코리아넷
전한
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. --To Autumn. by John Keats
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