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View of the ruins of Antinopolis, today Sheikh Ibada, Egypt.

Tags: Antinopolis / Ansena / mod. Sheikh Ibada, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Houses, Human types, Ruins, Views

Interior view of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, near Luxor.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian architecture, Egyptian monuments, Egyptian temples, Esna / anc. Latopolis, Hieroglyphs, Human types, Interiors, Temple of Esna, Thebes / Luxor, Views

View of the Ptolemaic Temple of Kom Ombo, or Temple of Sobek and Haroeris, Egyptian deities, near Aswan.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Egyptian temples, Kom Ombo / anc. Omboi, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Ruins, Temple of Kom Ombo, Temple of Sobek and Haroeris (Kom Ombo), Views

View of the quarries of Gebel el-Silsila, near Aswan.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Boats and ships, Egypt, Egyptian quarries, Gebel el-Silsila, Human types, Nile river, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Quarries, Reliefs, Rivers, Views

View of the Kiosk of Trajan, on the island Philae, near Aswan.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Human types, Islands, Nubia, Nubians, Philae, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors, Trajan, Trajan's Kiosk (Philae island), Views

View of the Temple of Debod, dedicated to Isis of Philae, island near Aswan. The temple is today in Madrid.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Debod, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Egyptian temples, Human types, Madrid, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Temple of Debod, Temple of Isis (Philae), Views

View of the Temple of Dendur, near Aswan. This Temple was ordered by the Roman Emperor Augustus, and was dedicated to Isis and Osiris. The temple is today at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian architecture, Egyptian temples, Ethnic groups, Hieroglyphs, Human types, Nubians, Temple of Isis and Osiris at Dendur (Aswan), Views

View of the Hellenistic Temple of Thoth in Dakka, Egypt.

Tags: Ad-Dakka, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Egyptian temples, Human types, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Temple of Thoth (Dakka), Views

View of the Hellenistic Temple of Serapis in Meharakka, location between Amada and Wadi es-Sebua.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Birds, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Egyptian temples, Human types, Meharrakka, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Ruins, Serapis, Temple of Serapis (Meharakka), Views, Wadi es-Sebua

View of the Temple of Amada, in Egypt.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Egyptian temples, Human types, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Ruins, Temple of Amada, Temple of Hathor and Nefertari (Abu Simbel )

Interior view of the Temple of Hathor and Nefertari, also known as the Small Temple, in Egypt.

Tags: Abu Simbel, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian temples, Hathor, Hieroglyphs, Human types, Interiors, Nefertari, Nubia, Pharaohs, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Temple of Hathor and Nefertari (Abu Simbel )

Front view of the Temple of Hathor and Nefertari, also known as the Small Temple, in Abu Simbel Egypt.

Tags: Abu Simbel, Art and antiquities, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian temples, Hieroglyphs, Human types, Nefertari, Nubia, Pharaohs, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Sculptures, Temple of Hathor and Nefertari (Abu Simbel )

View of the Temple of Ra-Horakhty in Derr, Egypt.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, El-Derr, Hieroglyphs, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Ra-Horakhty, Temple of Ra-Horakhty (Derr)

View of the Temples of Abu Simbel in Egypt.

Tags: Abu Simbel, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Egypt, Egyptian temples, Nasser, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Rivers

View of the Temple of Mandulis, Nubian deity. This temple is also called Temple of Kalabsha as of its location (at Kalabsha, near Aswan).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Egyptian temples, Ethnic groups, Kalabsha / anc. Talmis, Nubia, Nubians, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Temple of Mandulis – Temple of Kalabsha

View of the Temple of Dedwen, Nubian deity, at the cape of Kalabsha (anc. Talmis), near Aswan. During the first Christian centuries, this temple served as a church, and it is still called this way.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Egypt, Human types, Kalabsha / anc. Talmis, Nubian architecture, Ruins, Temple of Dedwen (Kalabsha), Views

View of the Ptolemaic Temple of Kom Ombo.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Boats and ships, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Kom Ombo / anc. Omboi, Natural environment, Nile river, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Rivers, Ruins, Temple of Kom Ombo, Views

The pylon of the Temple of Luxor (anc. Thebes), together with the colossal statues and the obelisk of Ramses II.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Luxor Obelisk, Pharaohs, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Ramesses II, Sculptures, Temple of Luxor, Thebes / Luxor

The Meidum or Maidum Pyramid, south of Cairo. Due to its unusual shape it is also called as False Pyramid.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Cairo, Egypt, Houses, Human types, Meidum Pyramid, Natural environment, Nile river, Pyramids, Rivers, Views

Pompey's Pillar, also known as Triumphal pillar of Diocletian, in Alexandria, Egypt.

Tags: Alexandria, Animals, Arabs, Art and antiquities, Carpets, Children, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Donkeys, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Human types, Ottomans, Pompey's Pillar / Triumphal pillar of Diocletian, Social sphere and everyday life

Fig. 1. Rock-cut mausoleum in Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor. Fig. 2. Lanscape at the Gulf of Saint Paul, in Lindos (Rhodes).

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bay of Agios Pavlos (Lindos), Boats and ships, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Greece, Islands, Lindos, Lycia, Mausoleums, Rhodes, Views

Carved tombs in Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Human types, Lycia, Mausoleums, Turkey, Views

Lycian sarcophag at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Lycia, Lycian sarcophagi, Mausoleums, Sarcophagi, Turkey, Views

Lycian sarcophagi and mausoleums at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Lycia, Lycian sarcophagi, Mausoleums, Sarcophagi, Turkey, Views

Fig. 1. View of the Hellenistic, theater of Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor. Fig. 2. Lycian tombs and sarcophagi at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Makri /Fethiye, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Boats and ships, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Hellenistic architecture, Hellenistic monuments, Lycia, Lycian sarcophagi, Mausoleums, Sarcophagi, Theatres, Turkey, Views

View of Marmaris in Asia Minor. In the background the Castle of the city, constructed by the Knights Hospitaller.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Boats and ships, Caria, Castle of Marmaris, Houses, Knights Hospitaller, Marmaris / anc. Physkos / gr. Marmaritsi, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Turkey, Views

View of the medieval city of Rhodes. On the right the Naillac Tower, constructed during the era of the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller Philibert de Naillac, hence its name, and demolished in the mid-19th century.

Fig. 1. Part of stele from Bodrum (anc. Halicarnassus). This stele was most probably at the site of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Fig. 2. Metopes from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. These Metopes, on which scenes from the Amazonomachia are depicted, are some of the very few elements of the Mausoleum preserved today, because the locals used them to cover several parts of the sewer system. Inscription from the Castle of Halicarnassus, also know as Castle of Saint Paul.

Tags: Amazonomachy, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bodrum / Halicarnassus, Caria, Greek mythology, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Metopes, Reliefs, Steles, Turkey

The ruins of the Thermae of Gaius Xenophon (Kos) at the Asclepion of Kos island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Asclepion (Kos), Dodecanese, Greece, Islands, Kos, Natural environment, Ruins, Thermae of Gaius Xenophon (Kos)

Ancient reliefs from the island of Kos. On the first (left top), Zeus, Hera and Hercules. On the second (right top), Apollo with the Muses. On the third (bottom left), Hercules with the Lion of Nemea. On the fourth (bottom right), the contest of Apollo with the Satyr Marsyas.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Dodecanese, Greece, Greek mythology, Islands, Kos, Reliefs

The remains of the Temple of Apollo in Didyma, ancient city of Asia Minor.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Didim / anc. Didyma, Greeks, Human types, Ionia, Ruins, Temple of Apollo (Didyma), Turkey, Views, Windmills, Yenihisar

The ruins of the Temple of Hera on Samos island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Greece, Heraion of Samos, Human types, Islands, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Natural environment, Ruins, Rural houses, Samos, Views

View of the remains of the ancient theater of Erythrae, ancient city in Asia Minor. In the background the island of Chios.

Tags: Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Çeşme / Krini, Chios, Erythrae (Asia Minor), Human types, Ildırı, Ionia, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Peninsula of Erythrai, Ruins, Theatres, Turkey, Views

Fig. 1. Inscription from Lefkada. Fig. 2. Seat-like stone from the School of Homer (Agios Athanasios), Ithaca. Fig. 3. Capital of column found near Skala, Cephalonia. Fig. 4. Part of wall from the ruins at Aetos, Ithaca.

Tags: Aetos (Ithaca), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cephalonia, Greece, Inscriptions, Ionian islands, Ithaca, Lefkada, School of Homer / Agios Athanasios (Ithaca)

Part of ancient wall in Sami, Cephalonia

Tags: Acropoleis of Sami, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cephalonia, Greece, Human types, Ionian islands, Sami, Walls

Ruins from the site of the Acropolis of Sami on Cephalonia island.

Tags: Acropoleis of Sami, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cephalonia, Greece, Ionian islands, Sami

Ruins of the polygonal walls of the Acropolis on Aetos Hill, on Ithaca.

Tags: Acropoleis, Aetos (Ithaca), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Ionian islands, Ithaca

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