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Pictures, Images & Photos of The Chora or Kariye Museum. Pictures images and photos of the late Roman Byzantine Chora Church, Holy Saviour, mosaics 1315-1321 ( now Kariye Museum ). Originally outside the original city walls built by Emperor Constantine The Chora Monastery derives its name from the Greek Kariye meaning country or suburban area. [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Dalyan Turkey. Pictures & images of Dalyan, its river & delta on the Aegean Sea, Turkey. Dalyan is situated inland from the Aegean Sea on a river that runs through reed marshes from the inland lake & sanctuary of Köyceğiz (Koycegiz). The Dalyan Delta has a spit of sand [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of The Elgin Marbles. Pictures, images & photos of The Parthenon Marbles, known as The Elgin Marbles exhibited in the British Museum, London. Dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, the construction of the Parthenon Temple began in 447 BC with its decorations being completed in 432 BC. The Parthenon has become [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire. Pictures & Images of Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Park Water Gardens. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for over 400 years until it was closed by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The Abbey is part of It is one of the largest and [...]
Pictures of Assyrian Sculptures. Pictures, images & photos of ancient Assyrian relief sculptures. The Assyrians existed as an independent state fro 2400 B.C to the end of the 7th cent. B.C in Mesopotamia, present day Iraq The Assyrians became a power rich empire that showed its great conquests in exquisitely intricate relief sculptures on its [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Great Palace Roman Mosaics. Pictures & images of Great Palace Mosaics, Istanbul, Turkey. The Roman Byzantine mosaics used to decorate the pavement of a peristyle court, dating possibly to the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian I ( 527-565 ). The area formed part of the south-western Great Palace, and the [...]
<td > Pictures, Images & Photos of the Tiles of the Ishtar Gate, Babylon. Pictures & images of artefacts and art of ancient Babylon. The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon. It was constructed in about 575 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Ancient Greek Sculptures. Pictures, images & photos of Greek Sculptures from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. What is known as Ancient Greece is today the Cyclades Islands, Greek mainland and the Aegean coast and its islands. It was common to use a small figure as a votive offering [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of the Meteora Monasteries, Greece. Meteora Monasteries Greece pictures, images fotos & photos of the Orthodox monasteries on top of their pillars of rock. Buy stock pictures, photoart prints & cards of Meteora Mountains famous Cliff top Monasteries. In the sixteenth century there were 24 monasteries but today only 6 [...]
Pictures of Pergamon Archaeological Site, Turkey. Pictures, images and photos of Pergamon ( Bergama ), archaeological site, Turkey. The Kingdom of Pergamon was ruled by Eumenes II in 197-159 B.C who expanded the Library of Pergamon. The copying of ancient manuscripts was a lucrative business in the ancient world and the Library Alexandria had [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Minoan Frescoes & Art. Pictures of Minoan Art with images of Minoan frescoes from Knossos, Akrotiri & the Ankara Archaeological Museum. What the Minoans called themselves is unknown. The term “Minoan” was coined by Arthur Evans after the mythic “king” Minos. The Minoan Bronze Age began in Crete around [...]
Pictures of the Medieval City of Rhodes, Greece. Pictures, images and photos of Rhodes city on the Island of Rhodes (Rodos) , Greece. Rhodes is an ancient settlement of the Dodecanese islands and has been settled since pre history. Today the medieval city is dominated by the Palace of the Grand Master whose medieval [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of The Monemvasia, Greece. Pictures, images & photos of Monemvasia (Μονεμβασία) nicknamed the Gibraltar of the East or The Rock. The island of Monemvasia is linked to the east coast of the Peloponnese by a bridge built in 1971. It is 300 m wide and 1 km long with steep cliffs [...]
Pictures of Perge Archaeological Site, Turkey. Pictures, images and photos of the archaeological site of Perge ( Perga ), Turkey. Perge dates back to the Bronze Age and during the Greek Hellenistic period was one of the richest and most beautiful cities of the ancient world. In the 1400′s B.C the Ancient World civilisations of [...]
Pictures of Perge Archaeological Site, Turkey. Pictures, images and photos of the archaeological site of Perge ( Perga ), Turkey. Perge dates back to the Bronze Age and during the Greek Hellenistic period was one of the richest and most beautiful cities of the ancient world. In the 1400′s B.C the Ancient World civilisations of [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of the Spectacular Byzantine Mosaics of The Palatine Chapel, Palermo. Photos, pictures of the Palatine Chapel, Palermo. The chapel was commissioned buy Roger II of Sicily in 1132 and was dedicated to St. Peter. The new chapel was built over an older chapel, now the crypt, that was built in [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of The Roman Sculpture of Aphrodisias Museum, Turkey. Pictures of Roman Art relief sculpture freezes from the Temples of Aphrodisias. The images of Roman Sculptures show Goddesses & Roman Emperors. Aphrodisias was a small city in Caria, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, Turkey, about 230 km (140 miles) [...]
Pictures of The Great Library of Celsus at Ephasus. Ephesus pictures, photos of the library of Celsus & Images of the Roman ruins. See & buy Ephesus stock photos or Ephesus photo art prints & cards. Ephesus ( Ephesos; Turkish Efes) was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Roman Mosaics of Italy, Greece & Turkey Pictures & images of Ancient Roman sculpture & relief sculptures from Italy, Greece & Turkey. Ancient Greek sculpture is a complicated area of archaeology as it is linked very closely to Greek sculpture. One area of Roman sculpture copies earlier known Greek sculptures. [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Ottoman Style Iznik Tiles. Pictures, images & photos of Iznik glazed ceramic Arabesque Ottoman tiles. Iznik was famous for its highly decorated ceramic pottery from the 15th century to the end of the 17th century. Suleyman the magnificent and his wife Hurrem (Roxelana) became big fans of Iznik ceramics and [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Byzantine Roman Mosaics & Frescoes. Pictures of Byzantine art with images of Byzantine mosaics & frescos from Greece, Turkey, Sicily & Italy. Byzantine art is the term commonly used to describe the artistic products of the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire from about the 5th century until the Fall of [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Historic Rome Pictures, images & photos of Rome, Italy. To many Rome is Italy but actually Rome is Rome and still feels different from the rest of Italy. 1600 years after its fall from grace the independence of what was the capital of the greatest Western Empire can still be [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Lycian Archaeology. Pictures & images of ancient Lycian cities in western Anatolia, Turkey. Ancient Egyptian records describe the Lycians as allies of the Hittites but it is also thought that the Lycians were one of the ‘Sea Peoples’ who invaded the Hittite Empire around 1200 BC .By 1300 B.C, Lycia [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of San Gimignano, Tuscany. The Medieval Manhattan. Pictures, photo & images of San Gimignano, Tuscany, Scilly. Ever wondered what Manhattan would have looked like if it was built 800 years ago. Well a look at the curious towers of San Gimignano will give some idea of what a medieval Manhattan would [...]
