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Palmyra
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger on 14th Jan 2007. Tomb of Elabel, a familly tower crypt dating to 103 CE. It had room for 260 people.
Outside of Palmyra, a desert trading town. Perhaps the Las Vegas of its day.
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Palmyra
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger on 14th Jan 2007. Tomb of Elabel, a familly tower crypt dating to 103 CE. It had room for 260 people.
Outside of Palmyra, a desert trading town. Perhaps the Las Vegas of its day.
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Dura-Europos
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dura-Europos submitted by AlexHunger on 13th Jan 2007. Secondary Gate. Originally Seleucid City on the Wst bank of the EUphrates. Found in the 4th century BCE, Dura-Europos was finally conquered by the Sassanids (fom the current Iran) around 258 CE.
Note the 2 km long town wall on the western side. On the eastern side, the town is protected by the Euphrates and a cliff.
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Resafe
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 30th Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Resafe submitted by Jansold on 24th May 2013. Resafe.
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Ugarit Palace
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ugarit Palace submitted by AlexHunger on 8th Jan 2007. Remains of King's Palace Courtyard. The king did a lot of the business deals himself. Foreign traders or dignitaries were received at the palace. Discussions were held at the pool while scribes etched and baked contracts on clay tablets on the spot.
Ancient Cananite city destroyed by the invasion of the Sea People around 1185 BCE.
The people of Ugarit invented one of the first Alphabets and controled trade from Crete and Cyprus to Mesopotamia and Egypt.
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Apamea
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 27th Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Apamea submitted by AlexHunger on 11th Jan 2007. City dating back to the Seleucid era with 2 Km long collonade, temples and agora.
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Hadrian's Wall
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2013
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 31st May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hadrian's Wall submitted by C_Michael_Hogan on 14th Dec 2007. Roman baths at Vindolanda Roman fort, an auxiliary defence of Hadrian's Wall.
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Jarlshof
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Jarlshof submitted by LizH on 17th Nov 2004. This picture of Jarlshof shows the beautiful setting of the site, and I think the foreground is the bronze age buildings!
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Mousa Broch
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2013
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Mousa Broch submitted by h_fenton on 18th Dec 2010. Mousa Broch, Photographed August 1967.
U. Fenton
Uploaded with my mothers permission
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Tamgaly Petroglyphs
Date Added: 23rd May 2013
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Kazakhstan
Visited: Yes on 22nd May 2004. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tamgaly Petroglyphs submitted by Jansold on 24th May 2013. The glyphs have been etched into the smooth rock faces with stone or metal tools and consist mainly of various deities, zoomorphic beings and animals.
Site in Kazakhstan
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Museum
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2003. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cairo Museum of Egyptology submitted by AlexHunger on 31st Jan 2005. Cairo Museum of Egyptology
Many fine exhibits are displayed in the museum. The museum contains the items from Tutankhamons tomb, and the mumy of Ramses II amng many others. It has become a little cramped over the last 100 years and there is talk of transfering most exhibits to a new museum being built at this time and only keeping items relating to the 18th Dynasty, particularly Tutankhamon and Akenaten.
It is not permited to take photos inside.
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Karnak Temple of Amun Ra
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Karnak Temple of Amun Ra submitted by KaiHofmann on 4th Mar 2011. Karnak temple.
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Temple of Luxor
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Temple of Luxor submitted by Thorgrim on 10th Dec 2003. The obelisk and pylon of Rameses II at Luxor (ancient Thebes). Dating from about 1250 BC. The temple of Amun-Ra.
Now that really is a megalith!
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Luxor Museum
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Museum
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Luxor Museum submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Jan 2006. tasteful and modern museum in Luxor. It contains 2 18th Dynasty Mummies, artifacts from Tutankamun's tomb, numerous statues and fragments from Akenaten's destroyed temple.
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