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Pictures, Images & Photos of Istanbul Turkey. Pictures, images & photos of Istanbul and the historic buildings of the Roman Byzantine Constantinople. Istanbul is one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It literally straddles the East West divide of the Bosphorus with its western bank in Europe and its Eastern bank in [...]
Selective Colour "Blue Domes" Gallery. Blue Domes selective colour picture gallery with photos of The Blue Domed churches of Santorini to download on line or buy as prints visit our SELECTIVE COLOUR "Blue Bomes" picture gallery Tweet This Post
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 Hydra Island Greece. Pictures, Images & photos of Hydra Island Greece. Located in the Aegean sea between the Saronic and Argolic gulfs Hydra is a fascinating island with no roads or cars. Hydra, the main town nestles on steep hills that rise up from a natural harbour full of small [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Kayakoy Turkey. Pictures of the Greek ghost village of Kayaköy (Kayakoy), nr Fethiye , Izmir, Turkey. For thousands of years Anatolia (Today Turkey) has been the venue of periodic wars and invasions. Every major ancient Mediterranean & Middle Eastern civilisations has fought over this area of the world. The last [...]
Selective Colour “BURANO” Picture Gallery. “Burano” selective colour picture gallery with photos of the colourful houses of the Venetian island of Burano to download on line or buy as prints visit our SELECTIVE COLOUR “BURANO” picture gallery Tweet This Post
Pictures, Images & Photos of Konya Turkey. Konya is a holy Islamic city in Turkey where the Persian Sufi poet & ascetic Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī known as Mevlana or Rumi lived and is buried. Mevlana was “not a prophet — but surely, he has brought a scripture”. He believed in the use of music, poetry [...]
Pictures of The Sacophagus of Alexander The Great. Pictures, images & photos of the Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great from the Royal Necropolis of Sidon now in the Istanbul Archaeological museum. On March 2 1887 workers quarrying north east of Sidon in Lebanon discovered a tomb shaft fifty feet deep. Luckily for history they were [...]
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 of the Gulag Prison of Sighet, Romania. Pictures & Images of the Gulag prison of Sighet ( Sighetu Marmatiei ) is one of the most known centres were the political prisoners were imprisoned, remarkable persons of the pre-communist Romania. Many of them lived their last days between the cold walls of this prison. [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of The Merry Cemetery of Maramures, Romania. Pictures & Images of the Maramares Merry Cemetery ( Cimitirul Vesel ) which is in the village of Săpânţa, 16 KM north west of Sighet on the Ukranian border. The Merry Cemetery is a testament to the vision of woodcarver Stan Ioan Pătraş [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of Jesus Christ. Pictures & Images of the Religious Depictions of Jesus Christ. One of the great world iconic symbols is Christ Pantocrator, “The Almighty” or “All-powerful”. Christianity if the only one of the 3 faiths of “The Book”, the others being Islam & Judaism, that allows the depiction of [...]
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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 The Plitvice Lakes, Croatia. pictures, images & photos of Plitvice Lakes National Park ( Nacionalni park Plitvička jezera ), Croatia. Situated in the Dinaric mountain range of Croatia near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Plitvice lakes are a series of 16 lakes that descend from 2078 to 1650ft down a [...]
Pictures, Images & Photos of the Robin Hoods Bay, Yorkshire. Pictures & Images of Robin Hood’s Bay. Robin Hood’s Bay is a small fishing village on the North Yorkshire Coast whose houses tumble down the cliffs linked by a maize of small alleys. This picturesque village is famous for its tales of smuggling and [...]
Pictures of Hot Air Balloons of Cappadocia, Turkey. Pictures, photos & images of Cappadocia ( Capadocia, Kapadokya, ) hot air balloons, Anatolia, Turkey. Cruising slowly over Cappadocia amongst its spectacular rock formations is one of the top ten things to do in Turkey. The whole of Capadocia has been covered with hundreds of meters [...]
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 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 the Ottoman Architecture of Safronbolu, Turkey. Pictures & images of the Ottoman Turkish architecture of Safranbolu, Turkey. Safranbolu derives its name from the Saffron the city traded had 3 caravanserais, overnight stopping places for camel caravan trains. Conquered during the Turkish expansion into Anatolia in the 11th century, the town [...]
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 [...]
