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Fashioned hairstyle of aristocratic Roman women of Flavian or Trajanic period.
Late 1st - early 2nd century AD
Istanbul, Archeological Museum;
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.
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.
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The St Emiliano olive tree near the Bovara abbey, Trevi. Approximately 1700 years old, and still producing olives!
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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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Un aríbalo es un vaso griego de forma globular y cuello corto y estrecho. Este procede de Naucratis, una colonia griega en Egipto, y está datado en el siglo VI a.C.
Phrygian Valley....Anatolia's mysterious ancient Phrygians once inhabited this rock-hewn valley (Frig Vadisi), which runs haphazardly past Eskişehir, Kütahya and Afyon. Although an increasingly popular hiking destination, it is still relatively untouched and offers spectacular Phrygian relics. The rugged terrain is exhilarating and highly photogenic. The Afyon-area ruins are the best preserved, and the Eskişehir-area ruins also impress; Kütahya's are less abundant. Phrygia describes an area on the western end of the high Anatolian plateau, an arid region quite unlike the forested lands to the north and west. Phrygia begins in the northwest where an area of dry steppe is watered by the Sakarya and Porsuk river system and is home to the settlements of Dorylaeum near modern Eskisehir, and the Phrygian capital Gordion. The climate is harsh with hot summers and cold winters; olives will not easily grow here and the land is mostly used for livestock grazing and the production of barley. South of Dorylaeum, there is another important Phrygian settlement, Midas City (Yazılıkaya, Eskişehir), situated in an area of hills and columns of volcanic tufa. To the south again, central Phrygia includes the cities of Afyonkarahisar (ancient Akroinon) with its marble quarries at nearby Docimium (İscehisar), and the town of Synnada. At the western end of Phrygia stood the towns of Aizanoi (modern Çavdarhisar) and Acmonia. From here to the southwest lies the hilly area of Phrygia that contrasts to the bare plains of the region's heartland. Southwestern Phrygia is watered by the Maeander (Büyük Menderes River) and its tributary the Lycus, and contains the towns of Laodicea on the Lycus and Hierapolis
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
Ancient Olympia, Greece. Photo taken with Nokia N8 (12 Megapixel).
Αρχαία Ολυμπία. Φωτογραφία που τράβηξα με το Nokia N8.
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Reconstructed view of the original palace - built by Roman emperor Diocletian (245-313) AD. He planned to retire after his move to the palace - one of the most imposing Roman ruins in existence. The palace designed to combine a luxurious palace with the defences of a military camp, having towers and fortifications on its landward sides with three monumental gates.
Originally situated on the water, the palace is now fronted by the city's popular waterfront promenade and faces onto the harbour. The buildings are made from local white limestone, quarried on the nearby island of Brac.
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Current days "Old City"* buildings within the palace boundaries are home to about 3000 people.
*Old City - within the palace walls are a network of narrow cobblestone alleyways that house a mixture of residential apartments, modern shops, cafes, restaurants, ancient Roman relics and the magnificent Cathedral of St. Domnius (Katedral Sveti Duje), located within the original ancient area of the palace of Diocletian, was originally Diocletian's mausoleum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian's_Palace
- a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.
tidal pool below maen ceti
One of the best known neolithic sites in S.Wales is Maen Ceti Or Arthur's stone. According to ancient Welsh texts the stone is one of the "Three Wonderful things of Britain". The other two wonderful things are Silbury Hill near Maen cetiBeckhampton in Wiltshire and Stonehenge on Salisbury plain. In fact the fame of the stone was such that a group Breton soliders destined for the Battle of Bosworth, made a sixty mile detour to pay their respects to it. Many legends surround the stone, again we have the common motif that the stones go down to the sea to drink at midnight, it is also said that on Midsummer's eve they visit Burry stream to drink. Others are that the stone was a pebble thrown from king Arthurs boot from the other side of the estuary which it overlooks. A split in the capstone is said to have been made by St.David in order to prove "That it was not sacred".Once split he then commanded a spring to run from underneath which was said to "flux and re-flux with the sea". You can see this "spring" in the photograph below. In fact the broken capstone is more likely to be the work of a local miller who needed a new millstone. Another Arthurian legends states that the king can been seen riding a white horse on a nearby path but can only be seen by moonlight. The path spoken of may be a despoiled avenue leading to the stones. Inside the dolmenUnfortunately because the stone is so well known and easily accessible from a nearby road it has been vandalised by some idiots with no idea of the antiquity of the place or with the former respect in which it was/is held. In addition the dolmen there is a large flattened cairn nearby. If you approach the stones from the main pathe then the dolmen is of to the right on a short path. When I took the photographs I ended up approaching from the West, this was more by accident than by design but it did give me a view of the cairn which you can't get from the path. The cairn is suprisingy bright looking almost white in the distance. This is due to the high concentrations of quartz in the stone. It is situated in the Gower Penisular near Swansea in South Wales near the village of Reynoldstone. Just before you come to the village you will see some moorland on the right of the road. The stone is short walk from the road.
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Ancient Cyprus. Obects from Mersenaki, Amathus, Idalion, Kition, Stylli.
Cypern genom tiderna - Showcase 10:07
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Detail of a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure.
There was no information from where they are or what time period. But this figure occur from the Late Period onwards.
Inv.10360.
Ancient Orient Museum of Istanbul
Title: Parte Orientale Dell' Europa
Map Maker: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli
Place / Date: Venice / 1692
Description:
Nice example of Coronelli's map of the Eastern half of Europe, extending from Russia to Cyprus.
Armenia on antique maps