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Menkaure's Pyramid
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menkaure's Pyramid submitted by Thorgrim on 13th Feb 2005. The romance and mystery of the Pyramids at Giza. Get there at dawn - this scene will be heaving with tourists and coaches within an hour or two. Go back to our main Khufu's Pyramid page for more on this location.
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Khafre's Pyramid
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Khafre's Pyramid submitted by Thorgrim on 13th Feb 2005. The most awesome experience is to enter the Pyramid of Khafre at Giza. Is it just a coincidence that Giza is located exactly 30 degrees and zero minutes from the equator? (Cairo is 30 degrees 1 minute North) Just think about it - some time before 2,500 BC, the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom placed the Sphinx and the great pyramids exactly one third of the way up from the equator and two thirds of the way down from the north pole. With all that space to go at - it must have been deliberate and pro...
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Giza Plateau
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Giza Plateau submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. All 3 Giza Pyramids as well as Satelite pyramid.
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Giza Valley Temple
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2003. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Giza Valley Temple submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. 4th Dynasty Temple next to Great Sphinx and leading up to Khafra's Pyramid via a causeway.
The core of the temple is limestone, but the inner and outer blocks are Aswan granite. The hypostyle hall has 16 Collumns.
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Great Sphinx
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Great Sphinx submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. Egyptologists generally claim that the Sphinx has the face of Khafre, while others claim the rock formation is much older.
The Egyptian authorities are about to start a refurbishment of the neck, shoulder and breast area, hence the scaffolding.
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Khufu's Pyramid
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Khufu's Pyramid submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. Largest of the pyramids with a height of 146 Meters, sides of 230 Meters and an angle of 51.5 degrees. It is the only surviving 7 wonders of the world.
There are 3 chambers and a grand Gallery angled passage.
4th Dynasty Pharao Khufu was the son of Sneferu who finally mastered the art and logistics of building pyramids.
There is only one small ivory statue of Khufu in existance, which is exhibited in the Cairo museum.
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Twyfelfontein
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Namibia
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Twyfelfontein submitted by h_fenton on 23rd Dec 2007. Country: Namibia
rock engravings at Twyfelfontein, the central figure as well as being engraved has also been polished which is uncommon on this site
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Knidos
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 1998. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Knidos submitted by davidmorgan on 16th Jun 2010. The Round Temple from the 2nd century CE, it originally had Corinthian columns. In the background are the two harbours of Knidos, the commercial one on the left and the military on the right.
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Althing
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Iceland
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Althing submitted by DrewParsons on 10th May 2010. The Law Rock or Lögrétta is a high rock on European side of the chasm and was the site from which laws were passed and trials conducted. April 2010.
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Ephesus
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 1995. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Ephesus submitted by davidmorgan on 17th Sep 2007. The theatre viewed from the Arkadiane or Harbour Street.
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Ménec alignements
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ménec alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Ménec alignements, north of Carnac, Brittany, France.
View of the Ménec alignements as they were in summer 1987, when you could walk amongst them before they were fenced off, and with an awful lot of erosion going on around them.
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Roche-aux-Fées (Essé)
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Roche-aux-Fées (Essé) submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Sep 2004. Roches Aux Fees viewed from North West
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Knossos
Date Added: 28th Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Greece (Crete)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Knossos submitted by Thorgrim on 12th Nov 2004. The Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete. Dating from the Minoan Bronze Age, the first palace was built around 2000BC and subsequently destroyed by earthquake. This later palace from the Neopalatial period had 1,200 rooms on five levels. In 1450 BC, it too was destroyed in a disaster caused by the volcanic eruption on Thera (Santorini) which destroyed that island and the Minoan civilisation. The restoration is by Sir Arthur Evans who commenced excavation in 1900.
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Birsay
Date Added: 20th Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Birsay submitted by howar on 23rd Jan 2013. Earl's place and some of the longhouses outlined by snow.
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Gurness
Date Added: 18th Jun 2013
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Broch of Gurness submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Broch of Gurness HY382268. Another well preserved Broch.
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Barnhouse Stone
Date Added: 17th Jun 2013
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 2
Barnhouse Stone submitted by howar on 30th Jul 2010. stone with Maes Howe aligned, Setter tumuli on Syra Dale behind Maes Howe continuing line
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The Orkney Museum
Date Added: 17th Jun 2013
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 8th Jun 2013
The Orkney Museum submitted by jeffrep on 5th Aug 2010. Tankerness House, the Orkney Museum in the heart of Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland
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Log Text: The museum is presently closed for refurbishment. It was due to reopen in Spring 2013, but was still closed when visited in June.
Grain Earth House
Date Added: 17th Jun 2013
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 7th Jun 2013. My rating: Ambience 2 Access 4
Grain Earth House submitted by cosmic on 23rd Jan 2005. The Roof Supports
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Skara Brae
Date Added: 17th Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Skara Brae submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Skara Brae Neolithic Settlement HY231187.
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Whitby Cross
Date Added: 17th Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Whitby Cross submitted by Jansold on 17th Jun 2013. Whitby Cross, adjacent to abbey car park
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