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greek-museums · 6 months

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I also went to Moni Dafniou, an 11th century restored monastery that was built in part with remnants of ancient sites from the surrounding area. The church was built along Nea Moni and Osios Loukas, two churches belonging to monasteries of the 11th century, one in Chios and the other in Boeotia that have been also restored.

The scenes from the mosaics are from the life of Christ.

#greece #dafni #moni dafniou #byzantine churches #byzantine mosaics #mosaics #11th century #byzantine sites #Byzantine Greece #βυζαντινές εκκλησίες #εκκλησίες #μοναστήρια #βυζαντινά μοναστήρια #αρχαιολογικοί χώροι #archaeological sites #ελλάδα #δαφνί #Attica #greek archaeological sites

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thorsenmark · 6 days

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Engulfed in Memories to Share with Mesa Verde National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views across cliff dwellings present at the Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park. This is from an overlook walk while I began hiking the Petroglyph Point Trail. My thought on composing this image was to capture of you of the cliff dwellings and have them run across the image center. I've pulled back a little more on the focal length so that I could include some of the trees and nearby surroundings as a foreground interest and have a layered look beyond. The cliff wall above was also important as it added to the setting and story for how the Ancestral Puebloan people would have to go up and down the walls to get to those dwellings.

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noticiasarquelogicasjaponesas · 6 days

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Sean bienvenidos, japonsistasarqueológicos, a una nueva entrega arqueológica, en esta ocasión os voy a hablar del túmulo Shofuku-ji una vez dicho esto, pónganse cómodos que empezamos. - ¿Dónde se localiza el túmulo Shofuku-ji? Se localiza en la ciudad de Kawanishi, en la prefectura de Hyōgo, localizado a su vez en la región de Kansai. La cámara funeraria se descubrió en la era Meiji. En 1934, el Dr. Sueharu Umehara de la Universidad de Kyoto realizó un estudio de campo y en la década de 1970, se realizó un estudio llevado a cabo por la Junta de Educación de la ciudad de Kawanishi que descubrió un ataúd de madera en la que se enterraron: puntas de flecha de hierro, espadas de hierro. - Data del siglo V y el siglo V y corresponde al periodo Kofun, con una longitud total de 40 m y fue construido a principios del siglo VI. Se descubrió un haniwa, que fue desenterrado durante la excavación, y se hizo de una manera muy similar al haniwa en la región de Owari que corresponde a la actual prefectura occidental de Aichi. - Espero que os haya gustado y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones, que pasen una buena semana. 日本の考古学者の皆さん、ようこそ！今回は、正福寺古墳についてお話します！では、早速始めましょう。 - 正福寺塚はどこにあるのですか？関西地方に位置する兵庫県川西市にあります。古墳が発見されたのは、明治時代です。1934年に京都大学の梅原末治博士が現地調査を行い、1970年代には川西市教育委員会の調査で木棺が発見され、その中に鉄鏃、鉄剣、鉄刀が埋められていました。 - 5～5世紀の古墳時代に相当し、全長40m、6世紀初頭に造られたものである。発掘調査で出土した埴輪は、現在の愛知県西部の尾張地方にある埴輪と酷似した作りのものが発見されています。

Welcome, Japanese archaeologists, to a new archaeological instalment, this time I am going to talk to you about the Shofuku-ji tumulus, having said that, make yourselves comfortable and let's get started. - Where is the Shofuku-ji mound located? It is located in the city of Kawanishi, Hyōgo Prefecture, located in the Kansai region. The burial chamber was discovered in the Meiji era. In 1934, Dr. Sueharu Umehara of Kyoto University conducted a field survey and in the 1970s, a survey conducted by the Kawanishi City Board of Education uncovered a wooden coffin in which were buried: iron arrowheads, iron swords, and iron swords. - It dates from the 5th-5th century and corresponds to the Kofun period, with a total length of 40 m and was built in the early 6th century. A haniwa, which was unearthed during excavation, was discovered and made in a very similar manner to the haniwa in the Owari region of what is now western Aichi Prefecture. - I hope you liked it and see you in future posts, have a nice week.

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gemsofgreece · 1 year

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Athens is the Top city to have ancient ruins. However are there other cities that have same important cites?

Numerous cities have archaeological sites, in fact it's the norm rather than the exception, however the ones in Athens are indeed the most concentrated / impressive / preserved ones.

In general, the following rules of thumb usually apply:

Most cities are excessively built on top of ancient settlements. As a result all of them have archaeological museums full of findings. In larger cities more of such sites have been rescued and are often monuments seen in various spots. In smaller provincial cities / towns, archaeological research was scarce in the past and as a result the ancient settlements remain underground. Research in these areas has started relatively recently and archaeologists have to also fight civilians who consciously hide the discovery of ancient sites and build on top of them in fear that they will lose their properties. It’s a big problem. However, lately we learn more and more in the news about new archaeological sites found constantly under unassuming towns and under towns which were previously believed to not have an ancient past. Unfortunately, we shouldn’t expect findings as majestic as in Athens because a) Athens was Athens, and b) the excessive ignorant construction on top of the ruins has of course taken its toll.

Several cities are not built exactly on top but in close distance to significant archaeological sites. Some of them are 5 - 20 minutes by car from the city. Often these types of sites are more important than ones found bruised exactly under the modern settlements. Technically Athens is a similar case, except it expanded so much that it eventually incorporated all the monuments within its city plan.

When sites are found but the ruins are deemed too destroyed to be worthy of opening up the space for the entire site, simply all individual findings and relics are taken and placed to a local archaeological museum and construction is resumed on top. Again this is the most common occurrence. Greece has 54 prefecture capitals and towns and a few more towns of considerable size. The archaeological museums are 205. This means that even random small villages have their archaeological museums and others are located close to archaeological sites into the nothingness.

So below I give as examples Athens and the next five largest cities, to show how it works more or less, because the case is a little different for each of them. Btw I am only mentioning monuments up to Roman era - nothing from Byzantine era and onward:

Athens (including many surrounding cities of Attica such as Piraeus, Eleusis and Megara full of monuments)

Thessaloniki (most of the ancient city is being excavated right now below the subway but it has already many large sites and monuments of Roman palaces, baths, arches etc)

Patras (ancient city, stadium, aqueduct, odeon inside the city and a Mycenaean acropolis and large Mycenaean cemetery just a little outside the city)

Heraklion (all ruins are in a museum, however the Minoan palace of Knossos and the maze are only 5km outside and there are several ancient settlements found in the respective prefecture)

Larisa (several ruins including two ancient theaters, the more impressive one of the two being exactly downtown)

Volos (minor ruins like ruined walls inside the city but several sites, theaters, beehive tombs and two of the oldest and most significant neolithic settlements of Europe in a short distance, a few minutes with the car)

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solitariussanctumartarchitecture · 1 year

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Bronze figure of a seated cat, From Saqqara, Egypt. Late Period, after 600 BC.

Collection: The British Museum.

It sort of reminds me of the cat Bastet from the Amelia Peabody Mysteries.

#art #ancient egyptian artifacts #archaeological sites #egypt #egyptian history #bronze #saqqara #the british museum #bronze sculpture #amelia peabody #amelia peabody mysteries #cat Bastet #cat sculpture #artwork

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mythosblogging · 2 years

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Here at Mythos we have recently been lucky enough to take a trip down to Cyprus, birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite. Naturally, being mythology lovers, there was no chance of us going all that way and not checking out some of the nearby historical attractions and we are thrilled to share some of the incredible places we managed to visit.

First of our list was Paphos Archaeological Site. Located near Paphos Harbour in Cyprus, Pathos Archaeological Site boasts an awe-inspiring view of the coast, and a collection of incredible ruins stretching from the Hellenistic and Roman periods to the time of the Ottoman empire. As well as Ottoman, Roman, and Medieval baths, burial sites and churches, the site is home to a Roman theatre and the ruins of four Roman villas.

The city of Pathos has long held a great historical significance, and during the Hellenistic period was named as the capital of Cyprus (a title it no longer holds). it’s the city is said to get its name from, Paphos, the child of Pygmalion and Galatea. Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with his creation and pleaded with the gods to bring the statue to life.

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neo88c · 2 years

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Un baile bajo una noche estrellada. Tikal, Templo del Gran Jaguar.

Tikal es una antigua ciudadela maya en los bosques tropicales del norte de Guatemala. Se cree que data del siglo I d. C. Tikal floreció entre los años 200 y 850 d. C. y luego fue abandonada. Sus ruinas icónicas de templos y palacios incluyen la gigante pirámide ceremonial Mundo Perdido y el Templo del Gran Jaguar. A 70 metros, el Templo IV es la estructura precolombina más alta de América y tiene vista panorámica.

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warrenwoodhouse · 1 month

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Keys To The Past

This site offers well written and well researched topical information regarding archaeological sites and excavations throughout the North East of England, County Durham and Northumberland.

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bharatbriefs · 2 months

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Exploring the Top 10 Important Archaeological Sites in India

Exploring the Top 10 Important Archaeological Sites in India What are the key features of archaeological sites in India? Notable excavations in India India is a land rich in history and culture, with a plethora of archaeological sites that showcase the country’s diverse heritage. Notable excavations in India have unearthed ancient civilizations dating back thousands of years. From the Harappan…

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#Archaeological Sites #india #UNESCO #UNESCO World Heritage Sites

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julianworker · 3 months

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Gobekli Tepe

Gobekli Tepe is an unprepossessing archaeological site in Northern Mesopotamia – the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. No postcards of the site are on sale and no guidebooks. Indeed, the gatekeeper has only one book for sale and that’s an English translation of the work by Klaus Schmidt that first alerted the world to his significant discovery in southern Turkey near the Syrian…

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#ancient #ancient site #archaeological sites #archaeologist #discoveries #Gobekli Tepe #gobekli tepe in Turkey #site #Turkey

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greek-museums · 6 months

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I went to the Sanctuary of Aphrodite in Haidari today and there was a Bonsai exhibition focused on small, bonsai olive trees called Mories Elies (Sacred Olive Trees).

The exhibition refers to the ancient custom of guarding certain olive trees in Athens considered sacred because they were believed to originate from the first olive tree the goddess Athena planted.

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thorsenmark · 4 months

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Planned to Visit in 2020, But Delayed Because of a Pandemic to 2023! (Mesa Verde National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking the Petroglyph Point Trail and a view looking to the southeast to the Spruce Tree House and cliff dwelling. This is located in Mesa Verde National Park. My thought on composing this image was to pull back on the focal length and include the surrounding landscape to add flavor to this Ancestral Puebloan site and national park in Colorado. I liked the layered look with the nearby rock wall and trees that made it seem like a look beyond to those cliff dwelling on the other side of the mesa. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 7. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 4 where I added a Polarization, Foliage, and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured. The caption for the image was a reference to the fact that I had planned to make this visit and trip in April 2020, but the world kind of shut down with the beginning of the Covid pandemic. I was able to plan out for this national park visit back in September 2023 and savored this moment as a "finally!"

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thefreedomchasers · 8 months

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Your Complete Guide To Visiting Chichén Itzá Mexico (2023)

One of the activities that stuck out the most on our recent trip to Mexico was visiting Chichen Itza (chee-chen eet-sah). We love diving into the culture and history of the countries we visit and Mayan culture was one we were super excited to learn about. There are so many great Mayan ruins in Mexico you can visit, by far the most popular being Chichen Itza. Whether you are visiting Cancun or the…

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#Adventure Travel #Archaeological Sites #Chichén Itzá #Cultural Exploration #Historical Landmarks #Mayan Ruins #mexico travel #Travel Destinations #travel tips #UNESCO World Heritage #Yucatan Peninsula

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gemsofgreece · 2 years

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Keith Richards, founding member and guitarist of the Rolling Stones, in Delos

August 1993

What was Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones doing on Delos? Good question! Minas took him there. One evening in August, Keith arrived on Mykonos with his wife Patti Hansen and his daughters Theodora and Alexandra. He had been invited to stay at a house designed by Minas next to his own residence. The ever-hospitable Minas took a bowl of fruit for the children and immediately hit it off with Keith. After that, Keith would go to Minas’ house where they exchanged stories over Jack Daniels and cigarettes. Keith had come to the island because he had heard in Dublin, where he had been previously, that there was going to be a meteorite storm. He asked for the lights to be switched off and every so often, gazing at the sky, he would say “Come in God, give us some, come in.” Keith was quick to understand Minas and his work since he too had studied fine art before getting involved with music, but as he himself stated with a heavy dose of irony, from that experience he kept only what he had learned about PR and marketing. On one occasion, feeling great enthusiasm for Minas, he said: “I know what you do. You make music with shapes”, before leaving his pocket knife on the table as a token of friendship. One day, Keith saw some photos of Delos and already deeply impressed by the dazzling white marble sundial set in the rugged landscape at Minas’ house, he asked his friend to take him to the sacred island. It was 15 August. They went to Delos in a rented fishing boat skippered by one of the villagers who had no idea who the foreigner was.

When they reached the island and went to the museum, the employees immediately recognized Keith and gave him a tour. What impressed him most however was the ancient theatre, where the photos were taken. After being photographed everywhere and after sitting for a while in every possible place to feel the energy, he said to Minas: “The ancients built theatres specifically for their plays and music and we’re still performing concerts in football stadiums!”

He didn’t want to leave Delos at all and when they finally managed to get him back to the boat, he turned one last time, looked at the island’s smoothly rounded rocks and – clearly influenced by the high winds – said: “The ecologists tell us that the earth is fragile. The earth isn’t fragile. We are.”

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#keith richards #the rolling stones #greece #delos #europe #archaeological sites #old photos #black and white photo #b&w #cyclades #cycladic islands #greek islands

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solitariussanctumartarchitecture · 1 year

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Ivory Plaque from the Lid of Coffer, Tut Ankh Amun and Ankh Esen Amun in Garden. From the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 61477

Tutankhamun receives flowers from his wife Queen Ankhesenamun.

#art #artwork #archaeology #ancient egyptian artifacts #egypt #egyptian history #archaeological sites #Tut Ankh Amun #Tutankhamun #famous kings #Egyptian Rulers #ancient rulers #ancient artifacts #egyptian #valley of the kings #ivory plaque #West Thebes #egyptian museum

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zsoti · 8 months

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by mikerhicks on Flickr.Tulum Mayan Ruins – Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

#Vieux Carre #archaeology #archaeological sites #Tulum #Xcaret

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