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Arena di Verona
Trip No.3 Entry No.26 Date Added: 26th Mar 2025
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Italy (Veneto)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025
Arena di Verona submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 26th Mar 2025. Arena di Verona.
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Chiesa di Sant' Elena
Trip No.3 Entry No.26 Date Added: 26th Mar 2025
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Italy (Veneto)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025
Chiesa di Sant' Elena submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 26th Mar 2025. Verona, church of Sant'Elena, Paleo-Christian floor.
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Museo di Santa Caterina
Trip No.3 Entry No.26 Date Added: 31st Mar 2025
Site Type: Museum
Country: Italy (Veneto)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025
Museo di Santa Caterina submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 31st Mar 2025. Some of the swords on display at the museum.
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Piraeus Lion
Trip No.3 Entry No.26 Date Added: 8th Apr 2025
Site Type: Carving
Country: Italy (Veneto)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025
Piraeus Lion submitted by Flickr on 10th Jan 2014. There is a replica of the piraeus lion in historiska museet, stockholm, where the runes are coloured. after i saw that copy, of course i wanted to see the real statue. the runes are graffity from vikings who went to greece (actually, quite many went to greece, at least, that's what swedish rune stones tell us). on this site, a typical viking age serpent with a body of runes can be seen. on the other side, there are some straight lines of runes
inscriptions:
"§a ... these runes. they ... ...
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Museo degli Eremitani
Trip No.3 Entry No.26 Date Added: 8th Apr 2025
Site Type: Museum
Country: Italy (Veneto)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025
Museo degli Eremitani submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 8th Apr 2025. Some of the trachyte stone markers (V BC) on display, one was even used as a modern curb stone before finding its place in the Museum!
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Palazzo Zuckermann Museum
Trip No.3 Entry No.26 Date Added: 8th Apr 2025
Site Type: Museum
Country: Italy (Veneto)
Visited: Yes
Palazzo Zuckermann Museum submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 8th Apr 2025. Remarkable coins displayed at Palazzo Zuckermann. Silver owls from Athens (V BC) and an electrum (gold and silver alloy) lion head from Lydia (VI BC).
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Museo Correr
Trip No.3 Entry No.26 Date Added: 16th Apr 2025
Site Type:
Country: Italy (Veneto)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025
Museo Correr submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 15th Apr 2025. Museo Correr, National Archaeological Museum of Venice. Bronze funerary items (8th-7th century BC) probably from the Padua area, and silver objects from North Dalmatia (4th-1st century BC).
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Ta’ Ċenċ Cart Ruts II
Trip No.3 Entry No.22 Date Added: 25th Dec 2024
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: Malta (Gozo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024
Ta’ Ċenċ Cart Ruts II submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 26th Mar 2024. Awe inspiring landscapes and ancient carvings, what a lovely combination!
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Wardija Nymphaeum
Trip No.3 Entry No.22 Date Added: 25th Dec 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Malta (Gozo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024
Wardija Nymphaeum submitted by KaiHofmann on 11th Feb 2024. The hill in front of the nymphaeum. The nymphaeum behind lies on private ground.
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Log Text: Well... I have visited the path nearby, I didn't manage to contact the land owners to get access and there are plenty of signs asking visitors to respect the private property... lovely spot anyway!
Ggantija
Trip No.3 Entry No.22 Date Added: 25th Dec 2024
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Malta (Gozo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024
Ggantija submitted by enkidu41 on 5th May 2004. Ggantija ("the Goddess's Tower) was built about 5,500 years ago and consists of 2 unconnected temples enclosed by a single outer wall each with a single entrance in a common facade.
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Citadel of Gozo
Trip No.3 Entry No.22 Date Added: 25th Dec 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Malta (Gozo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024
Citadel of Gozo submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 2nd Dec 2024. bronze age silos in Gozo
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St Paul's Catacombs
Trip No.3 Entry No.22 Date Added: 25th Dec 2024
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024
St Paul's Catacombs submitted by Bjorn on 6th Jun 2007. Site in Mainland
Children's graves are cut into the walls.
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The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
Trip No.3 Entry No.22 Date Added: 25th Dec 2024
Site Type: Museum
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024
The Malta National Museum of Archaeology submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 16th Dec 2024. Described as: "Embracing couple. The Neolithic artefact, which dates back to ca.3200 B.C. was found at Tarxien Temples. It clearly represents two people hugging each other with their faces very close to each other, possibly kissing. This unique figure is, to date, the only artefact dating to the Maltese Neolithic period which shows human emotions immortalized through artistic expression."
It's in fact a tiny item but not at all lost among all the others artifacts. How moving, a millenary embra...
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Moeraki Beach Boulders (Otago)
Trip No.3 Entry No.3 Date Added: 10th Dec 2024
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: New Zealand
Visited: Yes
Moeraki Beach Boulders (Otago) submitted by Klingon on 4th May 2020. collapsed boulder
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Machu Picchu.
Trip No.3 Entry No.5 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes
Machu Picchu. submitted by Dutch on 20th Jan 2022. Houses at Machu Picchu.
Photo taken in February 1997.
Scan of Ilford 400 ASA B&W film.
Olympus OM2n camera.
Olympus OM Zuiko 35-105mm zoom lens.
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Ollantaytambo
Trip No.3 Entry No.5 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes
Ollantaytambo submitted by Jurgen on 5th Dec 2006. Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cusco, Peru. Ollantaytambo is a massive pre-Inca citadel located 50 kilometers from Machu Picchu.
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Tambomachay
Trip No.3 Entry No.5 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes
Tambomachay submitted by davidmorgan on 23rd Apr 2010. Water is channelled down through this structure.
November 1994.
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Cairnholy 1
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes
Cairnholy 1 submitted by wolfnighthunter on 19th Nov 2008. Cairnholy 1
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Cairnholy 2
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes
Cairnholy 2 submitted by Greengirl on 21st Mar 2020. Cairnholy 2 with Megalithic Jess on Spring Equinox
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Ring of Brodgar
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes
Ring of Brodgar submitted by sacred23 on 25th Oct 2002. My wife and i visited scotland on a mainly photographic trip of the neolithic sites..lewis, orkneys, kilmartin etc, summer 2002..i shoot 8x10 inch large format B/W negs and am planning on going thru the whole laborious procedure of making platinum prints of the sites...these prints are archival for 1000 years (i kid u not)...i'm doing these for my own walls but wondering if there is any interest from the community for me to do a limited series or something..email me at [email protected] if...
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