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Balamkú
Trip No.15 Date Added: 21st Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jan 2009
Balamkú submitted by davidmorgan on 2nd Feb 2009. A wonderful stucco figure on the frieze inside The House Of The Four Kings at Balamkú dating from ~600 CE. Discovered in 1990, the frieze had remained hidden until then because another structure had been built over the top of it.
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Chicanná
Trip No.15 Date Added: 21st Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jan 2009
Chicanná submitted by davidmorgan on 3rd Feb 2009. Structure XX - this is the highest building at Chicanná, its layout is almost quadrangular, composed of two levels and oriented towards the cardinal points. The lower section has eleven rooms and the upper part four. The principal facade is on the south side.
The facade of the upper temple preserves the remains of the typical motif of the Chenes region: a complete, gigantic, zoomorphic mask. In each of the corners there are columns of masks of the "prominent nose" god which guards the mout...
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Hormiguero
Trip No.15 Date Added: 21st Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jan 2009
Hormiguero submitted by davidmorgan on 5th Feb 2009. Structure II - a nice fusion of Chenes and Rio Bec styles here.
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Xpuhil
Trip No.15 Date Added: 21st Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jan 2009
Xpuhil submitted by davidmorgan on 9th Feb 2009. Structure I - also known as the Building of the Three Towers. It constitutes an atypical example of the Rio Bec style due to the presence of the third, or central, tower. It has a maximum height of 18m and its centre line runs more than 53m along a perfect north-south alignment.
From the site information board. (It looks a few degrees off on Google Earth).
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Calakmul
Trip No.15 Date Added: 21st Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jan 2009
Calakmul submitted by davidmorgan on 10th Feb 2009. Structure II - the main pyramid. This structure is colossal, there's another tier above what you can see here. Best seen from the air.
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Valley of the Temples
Trip No.6 Entry No.10 Date Added: 4th Mar 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 1993
Valley of the Temples submitted by davidmorgan on 3rd Jun 2007. Here's the one stretched out among the ruins.
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Segesta
Trip No.6 Entry No.13 Date Added: 4th Mar 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 1993
Segesta submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Feb 2008. The Doric temple at Segesta. Built around 425 BCE but never completed.
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Selinous Temple of Hera
Trip No.6 Entry No.11 Date Added: 4th Mar 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 1993
Selinous Temple of Hera submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Feb 2008. Temple "E" or the Temple of Hera at Selinunte.
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Selinous Temple C
Trip No.6 Entry No.12 Date Added: 4th Mar 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 1993
Selinous Temple C submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Feb 2008. The view south from the northern entrance to the city. The remains of temple "C" can be seen standing.
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Syracuse Archaeological Park
Trip No.6 Entry No.14 Date Added: 4th Mar 2011
Site Type: Museum
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 1993
Syracuse Archaeological Park submitted by davidmorgan on 10th May 2010. Another view of the 5th century BCE Greek theatre.
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Temple of Concordia
Trip No.6 Entry No.10 Date Added: 4th Mar 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 1993
Temple of Concordia submitted by AlexHunger on 9th Dec 2005. 4th Century BCE temple In Agrigento (Akragas) valley of the Temples, Sicilly. No one actully knows to whom this temple was dedicate, so they decided Concordia would be appropriate as there was a small inscription on one of the columns. Probably grafity.
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Temple of Juno
Trip No.6 Entry No.10 Date Added: 4th Mar 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 1993
Temple of Juno submitted by pab on 25th Mar 2007. Site in Sicily (Sicilia)
Valley of the Temples, May 2004
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Selinous
Trip No.6 Entry No.11 Date Added: 4th Mar 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 1993
Selinous Temple of Hera submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Feb 2008. Temple "E" or the Temple of Hera at Selinunte.
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Pompeii
Date Added: 8th Oct 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Marche)
Visited: Yes on 26th May 1987
Pompeii submitted by raythemapman on 24th Oct 2009. Vesuvius and Amphitheatre. 1944.
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Rome.
Date Added: 8th Oct 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Lazio/Roma)
Visited: Yes on 23rd May 1987
Rome. Pantheon submitted by Bjorn on 5th Jun 2007. The Pantheon in Piazza della Rotonda in central Rome.
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Herculaneum
Date Added: 7th Feb 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Lazio/Roma)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 1986
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Tavole Palatine Temple of Hera
Trip No.6 Entry No.16 Date Added: 4th Mar 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Italy (Basilicata)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 1993
Tavole Palatine Temple of Hera submitted by davidmorgan on 3rd Jun 2007. The Temple of Hera.
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Metapontion
Trip No.6 Entry No.15 Date Added: 4th Mar 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Basilicata)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 1993
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Carrowmore
Trip No.5 Date Added: 8th Oct 2010
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Sligo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 1992
Carrowmore submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Jan 2009. One of the tombs at Carrowmore. I hope.
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Creevykeel
Trip No.5 Date Added: 8th Oct 2010
Site Type: Court Tomb
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Sligo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 1992
Creevykeel submitted by jeffrep on 11th Aug 2009. Huge Lintel Stone at Gallery Entrance, Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, Ireland.
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