Thursday, January 17, 2008

Famous Lost cities and cultures

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Troy,
Turkey
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Ephesus,
Turkey
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Memphis,
Egypt

Pyramids
of Giza


Great
Pyramid of Khufu


Pyramids
and Sphinx


The plateau of Giza. The Sphinx represents the pharaoh Khafre/Chephren

The
Sphinx


Closer view of the Sphinx

Pyramid
of Khafre


The pyramid of Khafre/Chephren in the background
In the voice of Omar Sharif

Inside
the Great Pyramid


The passageway inside the Great Pyramid to the tomb chamber

Great
Gallery


This is approximately the second half of the passage

Tunnel
to the tomb


The narrowest and most claustrophobic part seen from the top

Funerary
Temple


This is the hypostyle hall of the funerary temple of Chephren (Khafre)

Memphis


All that remains of Memphis is a museum on the site of the once great city

Ramses
II at Memphis


Statue of Ramses II

Step
pyramid of Zoser


A few miles from the pyramids of Giza
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Thebes and Luxor,
Egypt


Luxor Temple


Built by pharaoh Amenhotep III (1390-1352 BC)


Main entrance


On the eastern bank of the Nile.
A complex of sancturies, kiosks, pylons and obelisks, all dedicated to the Theban gods and the greater glory of Egypt's pharaohs.


Avenue of the Sphinxes


Avenue of ram-headed sphinxes
Built by Seti I, it has 134 towering papyrus shaped stone pillars.
Hatshepsut raised two obelisks to the glory of her 'father' Amun.


Carvings


The hypostyle hall was once brightly painted and roofed.
Hieroglyphs on the stone pillars.


Great Festival Hall


Built by Tuthmosis III


Side view


Side view of the Inner temple


Tomb of Merenptah


Tomb dug deep into the mountains


Temple of Hatshepsut


Built by the only woman pharaoh of Egypt to her own glory. She ruled for 20 years.


Tomb chamber


The tomb chamber. Much damaged but some of the original paintings are still visible.


Ancient worker's village


At least 70 houses of workers have been excavated and three largely intact non-royal tombs on site are open to the public.
This is where the workers who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings lived and died.

Temple
of Hatshepsut


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Keeping
watch


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Khajuraho

Lothal

Abu
Simbel

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Yebu

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Miletus

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Didyma

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Priene

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Hierapolis

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Syracusa

Greek theatre at Syracuse, built around 500 BC

Agrigento

Ancient Greek settlement in southern Sicily, Plato visited several times

Ugarit

The entrance to the royal palace of this early 2nd millennium BC city which invented the only phonetic alphabet ever invented by Man (all the rest are derived from it)

Palmyra

This pink sandstone desert city was an important stop for the caravans travelling from the Mediterranean to the countries of the Gulf

Serjilla

Deserted for about 15 centuries, in Syria

Al-Bara

Al-Bara, in Syria, remained predominantly eastern Christian and the seat of a bishopric subordinate to Antioch (modern Turkey) even after the coming of Islam

Petra

The ancient city of the Nabateans in modern day Jordan

Afamia

Founded by Selucus I, a general in the army of Alexander the (not so) Great. Afamia's peak was in the 2nd century CE when it apparently boasted a population of 500,000.

Jerash

In the first century BC, Jerash, hitherto a town of 15,000 inhabitants, became part of the Roman province of Syria

Ancient Amman

Colonnade of the forum of ancient, Roman Amman

Palenque

Arguably the most spectacular Mayan ruins in all of the Americas

Machu
Picchu

The prime Inca settlement of their religious elite


Cuzco

Ruins of Sacsayhuaman near Cuzco

Olympia

The site of the ancient Olympics

Delphi

At least as old as Homer's poems, this was the most sacred place of the ancient Greeks

Mystras

Ruins of the once most powerful Byzantine city on the Peloponnese

Sparta

Desolate ruins of the Acropolis of Sparta amid Olive groves

Athens

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Badami

Ellora

Udaigiri Caves

Nalanda

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