People of Santa Claus by voyageAnatolia.tumblr.com on Flickr.
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Mysterious face sculptures of Myra: Ancient theater masks carved on hundreds of stone blocks on pebbles at Myra. Each of them represent different faces and expressions. Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today in Antalya Province of Turkey. Saint Nicholas of Myra lived here. We know him today as Santa Claus … More
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Deeds of Alexander the Great by voyageAnatolia.tumblr.com on Flickr.
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Detail of Alexander Sarcophagus at Istanbul.
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Twelve Hittite Gods of the Underworld by voyageAnatolia.tumblr.com on Flickr.
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Twelve Hittite gods of the underworld, rock carvings at Hattusa, ancient capital of Hittites.
More on:
Hittites…
History of Hittites…
Hittite sculptures…
O Cybele, Mother Goddess…
Earliest urban societies…
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Ancient Hittite dam…
Hattusa, ancient capital city of Hittites…
Before the Hittites: Hattians, first civilizations in Anatolia…
Hittites in the Bible…
encased by time by shapeshift on Flickr.
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Banteay Srei is built largely of red sandstone, a medium that lends itself to the elaborate decorative wall carvings which are still observable today.
The temple’s modern name, Banteay Srei — citadel of the women, or citadel of beauty — is probably related to the intricacy of the carving and the tiny dimensions of the architecture. Some have speculated that it relates to the many devatas carved into the walls of the buildings
This is an excellent documentary:
City of the Gods - Angkor, Cambodia
on the architecture and cultural history of Angkor.
Banteay Srei, Angkor, Cambodia.
Statue of a fighting Gaul by sp!ros on Flickr.
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Parian marble.
Found in the Agora of the Italians on Delos. The warrior, wounded in the thigh, has fallen to the ground on his right knee, and will have been attempting to defend himself against his enemy with his left arm.
Typical example of Late Hellenistic sculpture with features of the Pergamene school.
Athens Archaeological Museum
Statue of a fighting Gaul by sp!ros on Flickr.
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Parian marble.
Found in the Agora of the Italians on Delos. The warrior, wounded in the thigh, has fallen to the ground on his right knee, and will have been attempting to defend himself against his enemy with his left arm.
Typical example of Late Hellenistic sculpture with features of the Pergamene school.
Athens Archaeological Museum
Apoxyòmenos by sp!ros on Flickr.
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from the exhibition at palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence
Apoxyòmenos by sp!ros on Flickr.
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from the exhibition at palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence
