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Babylon: Ancient Middle Eastern city. The city's ruins are located about 55 mi (89 km) south of Baghdad, near the modern city of Al-Hillah, Iraq. Babylon was one of the most famous cities in antiquity. Probably first settled in the 3rd millennium BC, it came under the rule of the Amorite kings around 2000 BC. It became the capital of Babylonia and was the chief commercial city of the Tigris and Euphrates river system. Destroyed by Sennacherib in 689 BC, it was later rebuilt. It attained its greatest glory as capital of the Neo-Babylonian empire under Nebuchadrezzar II (r. 605 – c. 561 BC). Alexander the Great, who took the city in 331 BC, died there. Evidence of its topography comes from excavations, cuneiform texts, and descriptions by the Greek historian Herodotus. Most of the ruins are from the city built by Nebuchadrezzar. The largest city in the world at the time, it contained many temples, including the great temple of Marduk with its associated ziggurat, which was apparently the basis for the story of the Tower of Babel. The Hanging Gardens, a simulated hill of vegetation-clad terracing, was one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The first wall remains and wall paintings were found in 1904 by people ploughing in the Balácapuszta field of a village named Vámos in Veszprém County. Soon it became apparent that traces of a Roman farm had been discovered. The farm in Balaca is the largest known Roman farm in the former Pannonia Province. The famous mosaic floor of 62 m2 of its central building was discovered in 1925 with the help of the National Museum. It is still the main attraction of the Roman Lapidarium of the Museum. The other three mosaic floors were transferred back to their original places in 1984, in the year of the official opening of the gardens of ruins.
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土耳其－Antalya省－Kekova岛巡游－沉没之城
Remains of an ancient city, submerged after land subsidence caused by an earthquake about 2000 years ago, on Kekova Island, on turquoise colored Mediterranean sea, along the beautiful coastline of Lycia, in Antalya province, Central Anatolia region of Turkey.
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Situated in the Bahawalpur District, it was built by Ikhtiayar Khan in 1775. It is a mud and brunt-brick structure which is 170 feet high on the inside with octagonal bastions. The fortification wall is 8 feet thick and 24 feet high. It has an intricate gateway in the eastern wall and an ancient brick-lined well can be found outside near the fort.
Prambanan is the ninth century Hindu temple compound in Central Java, Indonesia, dedicated to Trimurti, the expression of God as the Creator (Brahma), the Sustainer (Vishnu) and the Destroyer (Shiva).
The temple compound located approximately 18 km east of Yogyakarta city on the boundary between Yogyakarta and Central Java province.
The temple is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, currently is the largest Hindu temple in Indonesia, and is one of the largest Hindu temples in south-east Asia.
It is characterised by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu temple architecture, and by the towering 47m high central building inside a large complex of individual temples.
More info :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prambanan
Egypt doesn’t have the monopoly on pyramids. The Sudan has many of them, and discovers new ones regularly. The most beautiful and impressive pyramids form the Meroe necropolis. After a few hours on a brand new road (the same trip required two days on trails last year), we arrive at an unimaginably beautiful site: an alignment of small pyramids in the desert, bathed in the hot red sun on orange sand. No busses on the car park, no tourist shops. It’s almost like being the French explorer Fréderic Caillaud, who discovered the site in 1821! We understand immediately why UNESCO classified it as a World Heritage Site in 2011.
The pyramids were built between 4BC and 3AD. The site contains over two hundred of them, whereas Egypt has only a hundred in total! Forty kings and queens are buried here.
We notice immediately that the summits of all the pyramids have been blown off with dynamite. This is the work of the Italian explorer Giuseppe Ferlini, who in 1834 came and pillaged the site, taking away priceless treasures.
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Cavaliers, Djerba, Tunisia - Juillet 2000
Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley.
Developed on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, the Barb is a desert horse with great hardiness and stamina. The Barb generally possesses a fiery temperament and an atypical sport-horse conformation, but nevertheless has had an incredible impact on today's modern breeds.
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Borobudur is a ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The monument comprises six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues.
Evidence suggests Borobudur was abandoned following the fourteenth century decline of Buddhist and Hindu kingdoms in Java, and the Javanese conversion to Islam.
Worldwide knowledge of its existence was sparked in 1814 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the then British ruler of Java, who was advised of its location by native Indonesians. Borobudur has since been preserved through several restorations.
The largest restoration project was undertaken between 1975 and 1982 by the Indonesian government and UNESCO, following which the monument was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Borobudur is still used for pilgrimage; once a year Buddhists in Indonesia celebrate Vesak at the monument, and Borobudur is Indonesia's single most visited tourist attraction.
Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur
The site of Palmyra is an oasis in the Syrian desert, north-east of Damascus, it contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world, Palmyra mixed Graeco-Roman techniques with local traditions and Persian influences, it was listed UNESCO World Heritage in 1980
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East Bank/Luxor/Egypt 2019 (The Karnak Temple Complex, "fortified village", comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings near Luxor, in Egypt. Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I in the Middle Kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic period, although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom. The area around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut ("The Most Selected of Places") and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head. It is part of the monumental city of Thebes...)
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The siq opens up onto Petra’s most magnificent façade; the Treasury, or Al Khazna. It is almost 40 meters high and intricately decorated with Corinthian capitals, friezes, figures and more. The Treasury is crowned by a funerary urn, which according to local legend conceals a pharaoh’s treasure. Although the original function is still a mystery, The Treasury was probably constructed in the 1st century BC, However, in reality the urn represented a memorial for royalty. The Treasury consists of two floors with a width of 25.30 meters and a height of 39.1 meters.
The purpose of the Treasury is unclear: some archaeologists believed it to be a temple, while others thought it was a place to store documents. However, the most recent excavation here has unearthed a graveyard beneath the Treasury.
The Treasury comprises three chambers, a middle chamber with one on either side, the elaborately carved facade represents the nabataean engineering genius
The horizontal image of the White Pagoda (Phra Boromthat Maha Chedi or Great Chedi), home to the Buddha's relics, of Wat Prayoon Temple with surrounding skyscraper along Chao Phraya River.
Wat Mahathat Buddhist temple complex in the ruined ancient city of Ayutthaya, former capital of the kingdom of Siam.
But the adventure even begins when our local guide takes a compass from his pocket and begins to talk about the energization of the sacred stones in the place. Follow the video and pay attention to the compass.
Just do not ask me how they energized this stone, or how it's still energized after thousands and thousands of years.
After having an idea of the Tiwanaku's domain of acoustics and magnetism, I could see that in Puma Punku, near there, perhaps the source of all this knowledge is found. It's really amazing. In this place there is proof and evidence that this people, much older than the Incas or the Egyptians, possessed a technique and wisdom with extremely high standards. It would not be an exaggeration to say that their mastery over astronomy and magnetism might have been more advanced than the present.
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The area within the kilometer separating the Pumapunku and Kalasasaya complexes has been surveyed using ground-penetrating radar, magnetometry, induced electrical conductivity, and magnetic susceptibility. The geophysical data collected from these surveys and excavations have revealed the presence of numerous man-made structures in the area between the Pumapunku and Kalasasaya complexes.
It's a tour for a specific audience. In fact, Bolivia is not for anyone. Not in the sense of income, but in the sense of "mindset."
Ancient Khmer Temple in Cambodia and part of the Angkor group of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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The Main Loop Trail is 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long and loops through archeological areas, including the Big Kiva, Tyuonyi, Talus House, and Long House. It will take between 45 minutes and one hour. There are some optional ladders to allow access to the cavates (small human-carved alcoves). Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument
Rano Raraku es un cráter volcánico formado de la ceniza consolidada, ubicado en Isla de Pascua, Chile, más específicamente hacia el este, cerca de la costa sur, entre Poike, Hotu Iti y el cerro Pu'i. Este volcán (antiguamente conocido como Maunga Eo) contiene una laguna en su interior. El volcán posee una relevancia histórica para la isla ya que en sus laderas, tanto interiores como exteriores, se tallaban los moái.
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Isla de Pascua (Rapa Nui), Isla de Pascua, Region de Valparaiso, Chile.
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The structure on the right is called The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. It was originally dedicated to the emperor Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina in second century. When I visited here last September, a huge cloud was hovering over and rays of the setting sun were showering this ancient temple as if to pay homage.
Many thousands of decorated blocks from the dismantled temples of the king Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) have been recovered at Karnak and Luxor.
Sandstone 1365-1360 BC KARNAK
Text: Luxor Museum Egypt