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The Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn are a group of beehive tombs or necropolis from the Hafit period in the 3rd Millennium BC. They were declared World Heritage by UNESCO. The partially destructed beehive tombs are what you can see as accumulation of stones.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_Sites_of_Bat,_Al-Khu...
A slight hilltop, set back above the valley confluences and turns near to Aguilar de Campoo (a vivid town that is traditionally responsible for keeping much of Spain in biscuits): with views over towards the rise in the Cantabrian mountains known as the Picos. Whilst far from unusual, it needs to be made precise that there is no hermitage, church or ruins of a church or hermitage associated with these graves. There are some ruined low walls of pens or shepherds huts but nothing more. Stone 'lids' are not visible. It is a fine example of a rupestrian necropolis with over 20 east west facing graves, in the way that many dolmens open to the sun of the east, and many Christian graves align the feet to morning light. The site features in the array on the green diagram linked below, and can be seen high and to the left.
The once-vibrant city of Necropolis had been reduced to a barren wasteland after a nuclear winter swept across the world. The streets, once bustling with people and cars, were now empty and silent, with nothing but the sound of the cold wind howling through the decaying buildings. The city was cloaked in perpetual darkness, with the sun obscured by a thick layer of radioactive dust that hung in the air.
But on rare occasions, when the winds momentarily cleared the air, a fleeting glimpse of sunlight would illuminate the ruins in an eerie and ominous beauty. The beams of light cast long, twisted shadows across the landscape, illuminating the desolation and destruction in a way that was both haunting and mesmerizing.
The skeletal remains of buildings stood stark against the bright sky, their twisted metal frames and broken windows a testament to the destructive power of the nuclear winter. The rubble-strewn streets glimmered in the light, a shattered and fragmented mosaic of concrete and steel. Even the ruined cars and trucks, rusted and broken, had a strange beauty to them as the light played across their twisted frames.
But the moments of beauty were always fleeting, quickly swallowed up by the cold darkness as the winds shifted and the dust once again descended upon the ruined city. The brief glimpses of sunlight served only to remind the survivors of what had been lost, and of the stark reality of the world they now lived in.
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Esta necrópolis, compuesta por una veintena de sepulcros y cinco estelas, está situada frente a la ermita de San Adrián, en las afueras de Elorrio.
Warning: readings indicate this area is contaminated
Biohazard warning: entering contaminated zone
- ISAC, The Division
Found out everyone got furloughed where I work, so nice news I guess. Anyways, Happy Easter everyone! Another what if scenario of what if the green poison hit Chicago. Here you can see a field used as a impromptu mass grave, of course now taken over by nature. And as with previous scene, it was based on a real location; www.google.com/maps/@41.8475649,-87.6110778,3a,60y,74.87h...
Dara ’22
Like all classical Roman cities, Dara had the necropolis built just outside the city walls, close enough that they could be easily visited by family but far enough that they didn't get in the way of the defense. By late Roman times Christianity was undermining the strict division between the city of the living and that of the dead (the literal meaning of necropolis) but only privileged Christians received burial in the churchyard. Like other near eastern cities, Dara's necropolis is carved into the nearest cliffside. You can see similar examples in Urfa, Seleucia, Petra, and of course the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
If you have your own transport you can get here while the place is empty. The big tour busses show up around noon, at which point the little village becomes crowded.
Dara ’22
Like all classical Roman cities, Dara had the necropolis built just outside the city walls, close enough that they could be easily visited by family but far enough that they didn't get in the way of the defense. By late Roman times Christianity was undermining the strict division between the city of the living and that of the dead (the literal meaning of necropolis) but only privileged Christians received burial in the churchyard. Like other near eastern cities, Dara's necropolis is carved into the nearest cliffside. You can see similar examples in Urfa, Seleucia, Petra, and of course the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
If you have your own transport you can get here while the place is empty. The big tour busses show up around noon, at which point the little village becomes crowded.
Just to the east of Glasgow Cathedral, beyond the course of the (now culverted) Molindinar Burn stands a rocky hill. In 1651 this was purchased by Glasgow's Merchants' House (a powerful grouping of the city's merchants) and, after being planted with fir trees, became known as Fir Park. In 1831 the Merchants' House agreed that the land would be more profitably used as Glasgow's version of the world-famous Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Fir Park therefore became the Glasgow Necropolis.
Over the years since then, some 50,000 people have been buried at the Necropolis, in around 3,500 tombs that extend anything up to 14 feet below the ground and which, on the rocky upper parts of the Necropolis, had to be excavated with the aid of blasting powder.
The monuments that mark these tombs, especially in the upper parts of the Necropolis, are a tribute to the disposable wealth available - at least to some - in Victorian Glasgow, many being built on a vast scale. The result is an outdoor museum of the work of most of the leading Scottish architects of the day, as monuments compete for attention with their intricate detail and in many cases, sheer size.
Extensions to the area of the Necropolis in the latter half of the 1800s led to it reaching an overall size of 37 acres or 15 hectares (rather under a third of the size of the Père Lachaise Cemetery). In 1966 the Merchants' House gave the Necropolis to Glasgow City Council. The council cleared it of many grave surrounds and ornamental benches that both cluttered the Necropolis and made maintenance and upkeep more difficult.
Today the Necropolis is partrolled by Park Rangers, guided tours are available, and Glasgow Necropolis is high on the list of "must visit" attractions in central Glasgow, both as an object of interest in its own right, and as a viewpoint over much of the rest of the city: the views of Glasgow Cathedral are especially good from here.
The hilly and heavily vegetated landscape, and the city centre location, must make maintenance and upkeep of the Necropolis quite a challenge: and it is true that some monuments sprout vegetation; a few bear graffiti; and some have either collapsed or sport "Danger, Keep Out" signs. But despite this, the overall feel of the Necropolis is intriguing and, though it may sound odd to say it, welcoming. You have to remember that the monuments placed here were intended to be looked at and appreciated: it was always intended that visitors should come to marvel at the architectural splendour of the monuments (and the wealth of those who paid for them).
Glasgow Necropolis was always intended to be a multi-denominational burial ground, and one of its oddities is that while some of its monuments relate to multiple burials, others are in memory of people who are not buried here at all. The most striking example of the latter category is the tallest monument in the Necropolis, to John Knox. This was actually placed here in 1825, when the area was still a park. A massive column is topped off with a 12ft high statue of John Knox himself. To modern eyes the location seems a little ironic: Knox is facing west, overlooking Glasgow Cathedral, one of the few medieval churches in Scotland not destroyed during the Reformation in which he played such a leading role.
The medieval edifice of Glasgow 'Cathedral' from the slightly more modern (Victorian) northern Necropolis. Taken in post-sunset half-light on a cloudy December evening.
The Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn are a group of beehive tombs or necropolis from the Hafit period in the 3rd Millennium BC. They were declared World Heritage by UNESCO. The partially destructed beehive tombs are what you can see as accumulation of stones in the center and on the top of the hill.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_Sites_of_Bat,_Al-Khu...
The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland. It is on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral (St. Mungo's Cathedral). Fifty thousand individuals have been buried here. Typical for the period, only a small percentage are named on monuments and not every grave has a stone. Approximately 3,500 monuments exist here.
Following the creation of Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris a wave of pressure began for cemeteries in Britain. This required a change in the law to allow burial for profit. Previously the parish church held responsibility for burying the dead but there was a growing need for an alternative. Glasgow was one of the first to join this campaign, having a growing population, with fewer and fewer attending church. The planning of the cemetery began formally by the Merchants' House of Glasgow in 1831, in anticipation of a change in the law. The Cemeteries Act was passed in 1832 and the floodgates opened. Glasgow Necropolis officially opened in April 1833. Just prior to this, in September 1832, a Jewish burial ground had been established in the north-west section of the land. This small area was declared "full" in 1851.
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, "Soon will be Halloween..."
© Billy Wilson 2011
The church at the historic Necropolis Cemetery in Cabbagetown, Toronto. This cemetery has both George Brown and William Lyon Mackenzie burried in it., both are prominent political figures in the history of Upper Canada.
The Toronto Project:
Hi Flickr, I have been busy finishing my degree, and now I'm done!! I have finally completed my bachelor's in biology and chemistry. I just returned from a trip to Toronto. I have taken a fascination with the city in many ways and I had a list of things to do and experience there. In my three full days of staying there and shooting I experienced a lot and took 4927 photos, I walked dozons of kilometers, and visited many interesting areas. Some of the highlights include; the PATH system, Hockey Hall of Fame, Union Station, all of the major financial building complexes, CN Tower, Old City Hall, Osgoode Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Kensington Market, Chinatown, Sunnybrook Park, Cabbagetown, Necropolis, Euclid Hall, Gooderham Houses, Queen's Park Legislative Buildings, All of the old colleges of the University of Toronto, Royal Conservatory of Music, Annex style houses, Yorkville Houses and firehall, Casa Loma, Spadina Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, Allen Gardens, Mackenzie House, St Michael's Church, Metropolitan United Church, Flatiron Building, St Lawrence Market, Toronto's first post office, St. Lawrence Hall, Sculpture Garden, St. James Church, Gooderham and Worts Distillary, Cherry Street Hotel, and Little Trinity Church and the surrounding neighborhood of Corktown.
This is just an image of a large series that I'm doing. The primary goal of this project is to document the diverse types of architecture that one can find in Toronto. Much of it has a British influence or American such as Richardsonian Romanesque when it comes to older buildings. But since Toronto is also a modern alpha global city and a global financial city it has a diverse and impressive amount of modern skyscrapers and post modern architecture. Its diversity is also shown in its people in that atleast 50% of the people living in Toronto weren't even born in Canada, making Toronto the world's most ethnically diverse city. It is extremely colourful and every corner has a new surprise. One can pass down the same street multiple times and stil find surprises like little shops you didn't even notice. I can't wait to return, but I need work in order to get down there again.
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