Archaeological Sites & Ruins Around The World

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Delphi, Greece



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Tikal , Guatemala

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Tikal por Mayan Trip, en Flickr

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Paestum , Italy

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Paestum por wizt, en Flickr

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Paestum , Italy

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IMG_5751 por gigichamp, en Flickr

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Paestum por Massart, en Flickr

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Paestum por Massart, en Flickr.

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The temple of Hera, built around 550 BC by Greek colonists, is the oldest surviving temple in Paestum.(a World Heritage Site) por jjamv, en Flickr

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The temple of Hera, built around 550 BC by Greek colonists, is the oldest surviving temple in Paestum.(a World Heritage Site) por jjamv, en Flickr

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The Temple of Ceres (or Athena) was built in c.500 BC in a transitional style between Ionic and early Doric. It was later used as a Christian church, as indicated by three Christian tombs discovered in the floor. por jjamv, en Flickr

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The Temple of Neptune (or Apollo or Hera II) dates from 450 BC and is the most complete of the three por jjamv, en Flickr

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Egypt

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Karnak Temple por Simone Roberts, en Flickr

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The Western Wall by Aviatrissa(here and there), on Flickr

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Before thunder storm by Aviatrissa(here and there), on Flickr

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Old City Walls by Or Hiltch, on Flickr

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very nice

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The island of Delos, isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece. The excavations in the island are among the most extensive in the Mediterranean.
Delos had a position as a holy sanctuary for a millennium before Olympian Greek mythology made it the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.

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Delos by sandroriz, on Flickr


The meeting hall of the Poseidoniasts of Beirut housed an association of merchant, warehousemen, shipowners and innkeepers during the early years of Roman hegemony, late 2nd century BC. To their protective triad of Baal/Poseidon, Astarte/Aphrodite and Eshmun/Asklepios, they added Roma.

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Delos by Christos Kyriazidis, on Flickr

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Delos by Christos Kyriazidis, on Flickr


Sanctuary of Apollo in Delos

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Delos by Christos Kyriazidis, on Flickr


Temple of Isis at Delos

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Isis by Christos Kyriazidis, on Flickr

Path towards the cave of Zeus at mt Zas

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Path towards the cave of Zeus at mt Zas by Christos Kyriazidis, on Flickr

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thanks for the pics

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Delos amphitheater by karma-police, on Flickr

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The House of Cleopatra (no relation to the Egyptian Queen). Entering this home you would have encountered this long hallway with sculptures of the owners (Cleopatra & Diouresis) of the house at the end. To the right was a ballroom with another nice mosaic on the floor and to the left was a garden room with a lovely view of the harbor and the rest of the town. If you're wondering why so many Greek statues are headless, there are two main reasons. The first is that if you're a pirate it's much easier to carry off a head than the entire chunk of marble. The second, is that often the heads were sculpted separately and then screwed into the rest of the statue. There is an entire room of heads back at the Archeological Museum in Athens.

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Mykonos - Delos 1005 by Apel.les, on Flickr

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Mykonos - Delos 1024 by Apel.les, on Flickr

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At Delos Museum by mikyn, on Flickr

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Greece - Delos by Walker*, on Flickr

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Delos 07 03 09_1001 by HBarrison, on Flickr


The Doric Temple of Isis was built on a high over-looking hill at the beginning of the Roman period to venerate the familiar trinity of Isis, the Alexandrian Serapis and Anubis. down, left on the photo

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Delos 07 03 09_1003 by HBarrison, on Flickr

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Delos 07 03 09_1006 by HBarrison, on Flickr

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The Terrace of the Lions also dedicated to Apollo by the people of Naxos shortly before 600 BC, had originally nine to twelve squatting, snarling marble guardian lions along the Sacred Way; one is inserted over the main gate to the Venetian Arsenal. The lions create a monumental avenue comparable to Egyptian avenues of sphinxes. (There is a Greek sphinx in the Delos Museum.) Today only seven of the original lions remain.

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Delos 07 03 09_1010 by HBarrison, on Flickr

Sacred Way

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Delos (X) by isawnyu, on Flickr

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I added some descriptive infos in the previous posts

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Old City Jerusalem - Eastern Wall and Eastern Gate by Mwesigwa, on Flickr

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The Eastern Gate (Golden Gate) is the oldest of the current gates in Jerusalem's Old City walls. The original Eastern Gate of the 2nd Temple (Herod's Temple) is actually below the existing gate. Several years ago someone fell into one of the Muslim graves right in front of this gate, and found an arch which formed the top of the Eastern Gate during the 2nd Temple period. I have seen pictures of this. However, they have now cemented over this, and placed a wrought iron fence around it, so nobody can explore it.

It is through the Eastern Gate that Christians believe the Messiah will return. (Jews also believe that the Messiah will come through this gate.)

Because of this prophecy, Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I sealed off the Golden Gate in 1541 to prevent the Messiah's entrance. The Muslims also built a cemetery in front of the gate, in the belief that the precursor to the Messiah, Elijah, would not be able to pass through

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Golden Gate by Mwesigwa, on Flickr

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Algeria

Neolithic monument | Tin-Amali


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Neolithic monument | Djanet

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Algeria

Roman Theater of Guelma





Djemila | Roman Cuicul

Under the name of Cuicul, the city was built during the first century A.D. as a military garrison situated on a narrow triangular plateau. The terrain is somewhat rugged, being located at the confluence of two rivers. Cuicul's builders followed a standard plan with a forum at the center and two main streets, the Cardo Maximus and the Decumanus Maximus, composing the major axes. The city was initially populated by a colony of soldiers, and eventually grew to become a large trading market. The resources that contributed to the prosperity of the city were essentially agricultural (cereals, olive trees and farm).

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Algeria

Temple of Septime Severes l Ist century l Djemila

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Royal mausoleum of Mauretania| 1st century B.C

The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania is a funerary monument on the road between Cherchell and Algiers, in Algeria. The Mausoleum is the tomb where the Roman clients Juba II and Cleopatra Selene II, king and queen of Mauretania, are buried.

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