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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 [...]
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, 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 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 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 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 of The Blue Mosque Istanbul, Turkey. Pictures, images & photos of the iconic Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii ) or Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey. Built from 1609 to 1616 commissioned by Sultan Ahmed I when he was 19. the Blue Mosque draws the inspiration for its design from Hagia Sophia that stands opposite [...]
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 [...]
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 Cappadocia, Turkey. Pictures, photos & images of Cappadocia ( Capadocia, Kapadokya, ) Anatolia, Turkey. Cappadocia is an area of spectacular rock formations that have been used as rock houses for thousands of years. The whole area has been covered with hundreds of meters of volcanic ash that has compressed into Tufa rock. [...]
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 [...]
