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Ancient wheel carriage Parthian or Mesopotamian clay statue at the National Museum of Iran. Back to visiting this museum after my first time in Iran 13 years ago!
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Fanciful reconstruction, 19th century, mistakenly attributed to Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), apparently based on Berossus, c.250 BC (mountain shaped, high walkways) and Philo, c.250 BC, or c.150 BC, or 1st century AD, or 6th century AD (forest of columns, fountains) and Diodorus, c.50 BC (stairways)
Representação dos Jardins Suspensos da Babilônia com a Torre de Babel ao fundo.
Segundo a versão que atribui a Nabucodonossor, a edificação teria sido realizada em homenagem à sua esposa Amytis, filha do rei Medes, que tinha saudades das montanhas verdejantes de sua terra natal, não sendo a única edificação do rei, mas a maior de uma série que incluiu templos, ruas, palácios e muralhas em um número infindável. O casamento com Amytis estabeleceu uma aliança importante entre os dois povos. Mas Amytis ficou deprimida ao chegar à Babilônia saindo de uma terra cheia de pastagens, montanhosa, cheia de riachos e cachoeiras para residir em uma região inóspita, arenosa e plana. Seu esposo decidiu então recriar a paisagem desejada por Amytis construindo uma montanha artificial e um jardim na sua área superior. A denominação de jardins suspensos é portanto parcialmente equivocada porque não diz respeito à jardins devidamente suspensos por cabos ou correntes, mas sim proveniente de uma tradução incorreta da palavra grega Kremastos ou do latim Pensilis que possuem outro significado, o de superpostos. Strabo, um geógrafo da Grécia antiga tratou os jardins da seguinte forma: "Eles consistem de terraços superpostos, erguidos sobre pilares em forma de cubo. Estes pilares são ocos e preenchidos com terra para que ali sejam plantadas as árvores de maior porte. Os pilares e terraços são construídos de tijolos cozidos e asfalto. A subida até o andar mais elevado era feita por escadas, e na lateral, estavam os motores de água, que sem cessar levavam a água do rio Eufrates até os Jardins”.
The Mayan Ruins of Tulum during a summer blue sky with some sargassum and a beautiful blue/turquoise Caribbean Sea. Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Masada (“fortress” in Hebrew) is a mountain complex in Israel in the Judean desert that overlooks the Dead Sea. It is famous for the last stand of the Zealots (and Sicarii) in the Jewish Revolt against Rome (66-73 CE). Masada is a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the most popular tourist destinations in Israel.
The last occupation at Masada was a Byzantine monastery, and then the site was largely forgotten due to its remoteness and harsh environment (especially in the summer months). The site was superficially explored in 1838 CE by the American archaeologists Edward Robinson and Eli Smith. Then, between 1963 and 1965 CE, Yigael Yadin, who was both an Israeli military commander as well as an archaeologist, organized the first major excavations with volunteers from around the world.
The source for the history of Masada is Flavius Josephus (36-100 CE), who wrote about the origins of the fortress under the Hasmoneans and the renovations of the site under Herod the Great (37-4 BCE). As an eyewitness to the events of the Jewish revolt against Rome (66-73 CE), he wrote The Jewish War with the last chapter relating events at Masada in 73-74 CE. Josephus described the decision to commit mass suicide at the fortress (960 men, women, and children). However, because he was not an eyewitness to the events, modern debate continues in relation to the historical basis of his story.
Showcases a small collection of the ceramics found at the site, as well as a ceremonially deformed cranium and artifacts from the Chiripa and Wankarani cultures.
Pictures of stones and ceramics are not allowed inside the museum.
Iranian Muslim woman admires an ancient Achaemenid Persian Lion Rhyton vase, a landmark archaeological piece from the 5th century BC at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran.
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The story of the Five Guardians in the Emeq HaMelekh protecting the Treasures of Solomon’s Temple, brings us to the city of Babylon where Shimur Ha Levi, Haggai the Prophet, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Hezekiah plus Ezra and Baruch the scribe were living in a land where the inhabitants of Judah were exposed to a life of sensual pleasure, robust economic prosperity and a religion in Babylon that was ‘almost’ a clone of the temple services that they were accustom to at the temple of Solomon.
Also they found that they were in the company of many of their exiled brethren from Judah during the invasion of Senna-cherib about a century prior when according the Taylor Prism, Hezekiah was ‘shut up like a bird in a cage’. Here also were some descendants of the former Northern Kingdom of Israel known as the Saki in the Behistun Stone and the Guti, Ghomerians, and the Cimmerians that had participated in the wars against Assyria that Babylon eventually conquered.
Within the city of Babylon, the most conspicuous sites were the Temple Etemenanki, a seven story ziggurat reputedly built over the site of the ancient Tower of Babylon. Here also was the Hanging Gardens, fed by a chain pump bringing water from the Euphrates. It was built for the wife of Nebuchadnezzar, Amyitis, a Median princess, daughter of Cyaxarses and dedicated to the semi-legendary Queen Semirames.
The religion of Babylon was a religion easily adapted to by the Judean captives. The rituals in the Temple of Esagila, where the sacred vessels of Solomon were stored, and the gods of the Babylonians and the festive New Years celebration of Akitu were a seductive lure to the displaced children of Judah.
After the death of Nebuchadnezzar, Nabonidus took over the realm. In the Cylinder, Stele and Chronicles of Nabonidus we learn of the last remaining years of Babylon, the co-regency of his son Belshazzar, who was drinking libations in the gold sacred vessels from the Temple of the Lord when Babylon fell without the shedding of any blood. Gobryas, the general of Cyrus, who was of Israeli descent, conquered Babylon, the priests of Babylon fled to Pergamum and soon the seventy years of exile were over as Cyrus the anointed messiah encouraged all the displaced tribes and peoples to return to the land of their ancestors.
Ancient volcanic eruptions blanketed this region with thick ash, which solidified into a soft rock—called tuff—tens of meters thick. Wind and water went to work on this plateau, leaving only its harder elements behind to form a fairy tale landscape of cones, pillars, pinnacles, mushrooms, and chimneys, which stretch as far as 130 feet (40 meters) into the sky.
But human hands performed equally incredible works here. The rocky wonderland is honeycombed with a network of human-created caves; living quarters, places of worship, stables, and storehouses were all dug into the soft stone. In fact, tunnel complexes formed entire towns with as many as eight different stories hidden underground.
The monks excavated extensive dwellings and monasteries and created Byzantine frescoed paintings in cave chapels beginning in the seventh century, which endure in well-preserved isolation to this day.
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One of the most impressive site i visited, the Meroe pyramids. No tourists, just history, sand and sunset... the top has been destroyed by an italian explorator in the 19th century.
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Paceña is a Bolivian beer produced in La Paz, hence its name that means the one of La Paz. The beer is produced by CBN (Cervecería Boliviana Nacional S.A.) a company that dates back to 1877 and that controls 80% percent of the Bolivian beer market. Paceña is made at about 3600 meters above sea level with purified water from the Andes.
Paceña is one of a number of beer brands that form Caboface, the Bolivian beer trade union.
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The Bayon mountain temple and Buddha faces stone towers bathed in early morning light.
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Tiwanaku Full-Day Trip from La Paz at 8:30 a.m.
The ruins of Tiwanaku (sometimes spelled Tiahuanaco or Tihuanaco) made for a good day trip from La Paz for us who wanted to view a few carved monoliths, archways and arcades, and two decent museums. It’s no Machu Picchu or Tikal, but history buffs will love diving into the myths and mysteries of this lost civilization.
Little is actually known about the people who constructed this ceremonial center on the southern shore of Lake Titicaca more than a thousand years ago. However, evidence of their influence, particularly in religion, has been found throughout the vast area that later became the Inca empire.
In the eponymous village nearby, there are a number of hotels, restaurants, a fun little plaza with excellent sculptures inspired by Tiwanaku styles, and a 16th-century church, built, no doubt, with stones from the Tiwanaku site.
Construido en el siglo II, se compone de tres secciones: Cávea, Scena, y Orchestra. Edificado sobre una pendiente, la cávea aún conserva sus formas, que revelan que el teatro tenía capacidad para entre 15 y 20 mil espectadores.
Monument 4 ; 1000 - 600 BC ; 2.3m height
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Located near the south-eastern shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, Tiwanaku is one of the most important precursors to the Inca Empire. The community grew to urban proportions between the 7th and 9th centuries, becoming an important regional power in the southern Andes. At its peak the city had between 15,000–30,000 inhabitants. While only a small part has been excavated, Tiahuanaco represents the greatest megalithic architectural achievement of pre-Inca South America. Today it is one of the top tourist attractions in Bolivia.
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When I came here for the first time 18 years ago, I could stay here in the evening. But now, the place is closed at 6pm. My plan to shoot sunset of the old Roman Empire was cut short. This is one of the few sunset shots I could get.
Probably the best-known remnant of the Knossos palace, in Crete. It was built by the Minoan Civilization around 2000 BC, although the location was occupied from the early Bronze Age.
Estos Moais perteneces al altar o ahu Akivi y son los unicos que se encuentra en el medio de la isla, a diferencia del resto que estan a lo largo de toda la costa de la isla. Se cree que estos fueron hechos todos (un total de 7) al mismo tiempo y representan a los siete colonizadores iniciales de la isla, enviados por el rey Hotu Matu'a, el cual fue su primer colono.
Isla de Pascua (Rapa Nui), Easter Island, Valparaiso Region, Chile.
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These Moais belong to the altar or ahu Akivi and are the only ones found in the middle of the island, unlike the rest which are located all along the coast of the island. It is believed that these were all (about seven) developed at the same time and represent the seven initial settlers of the island sent by the king Hotu Matu'a, formerly the first settler.
Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Easter Island, Valparaiso Region, Chile.
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Pyramids of Khufu (Great) and Khafre
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Timeline of Tiwanaku Culture.
See where the Inca Civilization begins, a penultimate line before the present.
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Giza (Egypt).
The age of the site has been significantly refined over the last century. From 1910 to 1945, Arthur Posnansky maintained that the site was 11,000–17,000 years old based on comparisons to geological eras and archaeoastronomy.
Beginning in the 1970s, Carlos Ponce Sanginés proposed the site was first occupied around 1580 BC, the site's oldest radiocarbon date. This date is still seen in some publications and museums in Bolivia.
Since the 1980s, researchers have recognized this date as unreliable, leading to the consensus that the site is no older than 200 or 300 BC. Most recently, a statistical assessment of reliable radiocarbon dates estimates that the site was founded around AD 110 (50–170, 68% probability), a date supported by the lack of ceramic styles from earlier periods.
Details of the impressive Bayon temple of Angkor Thom. I still can't understand how the Angkor temples such as this one are so underrated compared to other wonders of the world.
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this place was most likely a spiritual place for the Nabateans where they used to made their offering to their gods & go through a much narrower passage for prayers
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Walls adorned with 175 crudely carved stone faces. In the 1960s archaeologists tried to rebuild these and used cement between the stones.
The star of the show at this Tiwanaku museum is the massive 8m Monolito Bennett Pachamama, rescued in 2002 from its former smoggy home at the outdoor Templete Semisubterráneo in La Paz. You’ll also find a basic collection of other monoliths and artifacts dug up on-site here. Labeling is in Spanish.
Much of the collection is currently mothballed, as the roof of the relatively new museum is already collapsing.
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The "Monolito Bennett", also known as "Estela or Monolito Pachamama" or "Estela 10", is the largest monument that has been found inside the Monumental Archaeological Complex of Tiahuanaco, (site cataloged as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO from the year 2000), built by members of the Tiahuanaco Culture, pre-Columbian civilization that during its period of greatest expansion was distributed in part of what are now Bolivia, Chile and Peru. It comprised almost all the altiplano and valley of the south denominated plateau of the Collao until the coast of the Pacific Ocean by the west and the chapare by the east. Its capital and main religious center was the city of Tiahuanaco, located on the banks of the Tiahuanaco River in the department of La Paz in Bolivia.
Height: 7.20 meters
Width: 1.20 meters
Weight: 20 tons
Material: andesite stone in one piece.
Shape: vertical anthropomorphic monolith resting on a pedestal
Decoration: diverse engravings, carries two objects in the hands, and has a crown and a ventral belt.
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A replica of a giant Olmec head found in San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, Veracruz, Mexico in 1964 installed on the grounds of Lehman College. The sculpture was a gift from Mexico to celebrate the establishment of the City University of New York (CUNY) Institute of Mexican Studies at Lehman College in the Bronx in 2013.
The horizontal image of Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn) on the Chao Phraya Riverbank with the light trails of boat transportation in the river.
Urn Tomb - Façade
Its 26 m x 16.49 m façade is structured by two half columns at the center and two pilasters with engaged quarter columns at the corners, erected on a podium on either side of the doorway order. They bear Nabataean capitals and support a weathered entablature whose frieze contains four panels with bust-reliefs. These unusual frieze figures with their heads intruding the upper frame probably represent Nabataean deities. The dwarf pilasters of the upper order are in alignment with the bust-reliefs and the supports of the lower order. The triangular pediment is crowned by a lidded urn, which has given the tomb its name.
Another unique feature are the three burial niches (loculi) in the intercolumnar spaces high up on the façade, becoming an integral part of its design. In the opening of the middle one, there is still a relief plate on which the bust of a dignitary dressed in a tunic can be seen. Unfortunately his face is completely destroyed. Due to missing inscriptions it will never be known who was once portrayed here, but scholars believe that it is the bust of a Nabataean king, perhaps Malichus II (40-70 AD). In fact, the dwarf pilasters suggest that the tomb was made in the second half of the 1st century AD, according to: Fawzi Zayadine.
The doorway frame has two pilasters topped by Nabataean capitals with a necking band, on which a metope-triglyph frieze with several decorative mouldings and a triangular pediment rest. The window above it was opened during its Byzantine use as church.
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