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After the conquest of Carthage, the Roman province of Africa (which is Tunisia today) became one of the richest provinces of the empire and many wealthy people here commissioned beautiful mosaics in their villas. The Bardo Palace and Museum is a repository of some of the richest collections of Roman mosaics in the world.
The Bardo brings together one of the finest and largest collections of Roman mosaics in the world thanks to the excavations undertaken from the beginning of the 20th century on archaeological sites in the country including Carthage, Hadrumetum, Dougga, or Utica. The mosaics represent a unique source for research on everyday life in Roman Africa. The Museum also contains a rich collection of marble statues representing the gods and Roman emperors found on various sites including those of Carthage and Thuburbo Majus.
The guide books advised to visit the excellent Bardo Museum early in the morning or during lunch time to avoid crowds. However, we almost had the whole museum to ourselves. The attack by ISIS in March hit the tourism industry of Tunisia badly, leaving the sights and hotels empty. A few glass-encased artefacts were minimally damaged by the bullets but the jewels of the museum, the unprotected mosaics from the various Roman ruins in Tunisia, have miraculously survived unscathed.
A sailboat is an economical and environmentally friendly means of water transportation that can be a single person sporting craft or large enough to transport large cargoes across vast distances. It was originally the primary means of transport wherever long distances over water was involved. Ancient civilizations such as the Phoenicians, Greeks, Egyptians, Vikings, British and all seafaring Europeans employed sailing vessels for travel, exploration, cargo transport and war. Long before industrialization and the development of steam or internal combustion engines, sailing vessels had explored every coastline on the planet. Modern societies have adopted its use in recreational water sports and luxury sailing yachts. The exhilaration and freedom of sailing is as close as one can get to flight without the requirement of defeating gravity.
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The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.
Inspiring as these monuments are, they are but faded remnants of the city of Pericles, who spared no expense – only the best materials, architects, sculptors and artists were good enough for a city dedicated to the cult of Athena. It was a showcase of lavishly coloured buildings and gargantuan statues, some of bronze, others of marble plated with gold and encrusted with precious stones.
Ravages inflicted during the years of foreign occupation, pilfering by foreign archaeologists, inept renovations following Independence, the footsteps of millions of visitors, earthquakes and, more recently, acid rain and pollution have all taken their toll on the surviving monuments. The worst blow was in 1687, when the Venetians attacked the Turks, opening fire on the Acropolis and causing an explosion in the Parthenon – where the Turks had been storing gunpowder – and damaging all the buildings.
The Acropolis became a World Heritage-listed site in 1987. Major restoration programs are ongoing, and most of the original sculptures and friezes have been moved to the Acropolis Museum and replaced with casts.
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is that the children and wife we leave behind in the Philippines are forced to adopt a surrogate father and husband.
Perhaps the first sphinx in Egypt was one depicting Queen Hetepheres II, of the fourth dynasty that lasted from 2723 to 2563 BC. She was one of the longest-lived members of the royal family of that dynasty.
The Parthenon is the large temple on the Athenian Acropolis and is dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena whom the people of Athens considered Athena their virgin patron. Its construction began in 447 and was completed in 438 BC, although decorations of the Parthenon continued until 432 BC. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered the culmination of the development of the Doric order. The Parthenon is regarded as an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece and of Athenian democracy and one of the world's greatest cultural monuments. The Greek Ministry of Culture is currently carrying out a program of selective restoration and reconstruction to ensure the stability of the partially ruined structure.
After the conquest of Carthage, the Roman province of Africa (which is Tunisia today) became one of the richest provinces of the empire and many wealthy people here commissioned beautiful mosaics in their villas. The Bardo Palace and Museum is a repository of some of the richest collections of Roman mosaics in the world.
The Bardo brings together one of the finest and largest collections of Roman mosaics in the world thanks to the excavations undertaken from the beginning of the 20th century on archaeological sites in the country including Carthage, Hadrumetum, Dougga, or Utica. The mosaics represent a unique source for research on everyday life in Roman Africa. The Museum also contains a rich collection of marble statues representing the gods and Roman emperors found on various sites including those of Carthage and Thuburbo Majus.
The guide books advised to visit the excellent Bardo Museum early in the morning or during lunch time to avoid crowds. However, we almost had the whole museum to ourselves. The attack by ISIS in March hit the tourism industry of Tunisia badly, leaving the sights and hotels empty. A few glass-encased artefacts were minimally damaged by the bullets but the jewels of the museum, the unprotected mosaics from the various Roman ruins in Tunisia, have miraculously survived unscathed.
Carthage Room.
After the conquest of Carthage, the Roman province of Africa (which is Tunisia today) became one of the richest provinces of the empire and many wealthy people here commissioned beautiful mosaics in their villas. The Bardo Palace and Museum is a repository of some of the richest collections of Roman mosaics in the world.
The Bardo brings together one of the finest and largest collections of Roman mosaics in the world thanks to the excavations undertaken from the beginning of the 20th century on archaeological sites in the country including Carthage, Hadrumetum, Dougga, or Utica. The mosaics represent a unique source for research on everyday life in Roman Africa. The Museum also contains a rich collection of marble statues representing the gods and Roman emperors found on various sites including those of Carthage and Thuburbo Majus.
The guide books advised to visit the excellent Bardo Museum early in the morning or during lunch time to avoid crowds. However, we almost had the whole museum to ourselves. The attack by ISIS in March hit the tourism industry of Tunisia badly, leaving the sights and hotels empty. A few glass-encased artefacts were minimally damaged by the bullets but the jewels of the museum, the unprotected mosaics from the various Roman ruins in Tunisia, have miraculously survived unscathed.
Wooden statue of Perhernofret, Ancient Egyptian, 5th dynasty, c2450-2300 BC. Found at Kafr Ammar. From the Egyptian Museum, Berlin.
Banteay Samré (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបន្ទាយសំរ៉ែ) is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia located east of the East Baray. Built under Suryavarman II and Yasovarman II in the early 12th century, it is a Hindu temple in the Angkor Wat style.
Named after the Samré, an ancient people of Indochina, the temple uses the same materials as the Banteay Srei.
• Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banteay_Samr%c3%a9
After the conquest of Carthage, the Roman province of Africa (which is Tunisia today) became one of the richest provinces of the empire and many wealthy people here commissioned beautiful mosaics in their villas. The Bardo Palace and Museum is a repository of some of the richest collections of Roman mosaics in the world.
The Bardo brings together one of the finest and largest collections of Roman mosaics in the world thanks to the excavations undertaken from the beginning of the 20th century on archaeological sites in the country including Carthage, Hadrumetum, Dougga, or Utica. The mosaics represent a unique source for research on everyday life in Roman Africa. The Museum also contains a rich collection of marble statues representing the gods and Roman emperors found on various sites including those of Carthage and Thuburbo Majus.
The guide books advised to visit the excellent Bardo Museum early in the morning or during lunch time to avoid crowds. However, we almost had the whole museum to ourselves. The attack by ISIS in March hit the tourism industry of Tunisia badly, leaving the sights and hotels empty. A few glass-encased artefacts were minimally damaged by the bullets but the jewels of the museum, the unprotected mosaics from the various Roman ruins in Tunisia, have miraculously survived unscathed.
Watch the video of the hike to The Lost City. Click here. www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8C013268B18C2754
We had the opportunity to climb down into an excavation site and help with an archaeological dig, and tour of this subterranean city and see the Bell Caves.
This is an ancient olive oil press.
This is the gully referred to in the previous photo. If you enlarge it still further you will see some little white dots picking their way down between the boulders.
The Nunnery contains some of the best preserved structures at Chichén Itzá. They appear to be the living quarters of the elite Mayans. Every square foot of wall has reliefs and paintings decorating it.
Numerous statues of Ramses II, some broken in the entrance hall of Luxor Temple. Look at how small us passerbys are!
Luxor, Egypt
Preah Khan (Khmer: ប្រាសាទព្រះខ័ន) is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built in the 12th century for King Jayavarman VII. It is located northeast of Angkor Thom and just west of the Jayatataka baray, with which it was associated. It was the centre of a substantial organisation, with almost 100,000 officials and servants. The temple is flat in design, with a basic plan of successive rectangular galleries around a Buddhist sanctuary complicated by Hindu satellite temples and numerous later additions. Like the nearby Ta Prohm, Preah Khan has been left largely unrestored, with numerous trees and other vegetation growing among the ruins.
• Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preah_Khan