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Tulum
Date Added: 31st Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Quintana Roo)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2017
Tulum submitted by davidmorgan on 28th May 2007. The Temple of the Frescoes.
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Calakmul
Date Added: 31st Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2017
Calakmul submitted by davidmorgan on 10th Feb 2009. Structure II - the main pyramid. This structure is colossal, there's another tier above what you can see here. Best seen from the air.
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Serpent Mound, Ohio
Date Added: 29th Jul 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 1998
Serpent Mound, Ohio submitted by eforrest25 on 31st Aug 2015. Taken from the viewing platform toward the tail of the snake. It isn't possible to take the entire length of the snake in a photo. One change from earlier photos are the markers showing lunar and solar alignments.
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Muyil
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Quintana Roo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2016
Muyil submitted by karolus on 26th Jan 2018. Muyil main pyramid
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British Museum
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes
British Museum submitted by Thorgrim on 1st Apr 2004. The greatest portal to the treasures of the ancient world.
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Delphi Temple
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes
Delphi Temple submitted by davidmorgan on 15th May 2007. The Temple of Apollo.
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Balamkú
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes
Balamkú submitted by davidmorgan on 9th Feb 2009. The ornate jaguar motif.
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Chicanná
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes
Chicanná submitted by davidmorgan on 3rd Feb 2009. Structure XX - this is the highest building at Chicanná, its layout is almost quadrangular, composed of two levels and oriented towards the cardinal points. The lower section has eleven rooms and the upper part four. The principal facade is on the south side.
The facade of the upper temple preserves the remains of the typical motif of the Chenes region: a complete, gigantic, zoomorphic mask. In each of the corners there are columns of masks of the "prominent nose" god which guards the mout...
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Becan
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes
Becan submitted by SolarMegalith on 24th Aug 2008. Becan - two visible towers are perfect examples of Rio Bec style (you can see similar ones in Xpujil ruins).
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Xpuhil
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Campeche)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2017
Xpuhil submitted by davidmorgan on 9th Feb 2009. Structure I - also known as the Building of the Three Towers. It constitutes an atypical example of the Rio Bec style due to the presence of the third, or central, tower. It has a maximum height of 18m and its centre line runs more than 53m along a perfect north-south alignment.
From the site information board. (It looks a few degrees off on Google Earth).
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Kohunlich
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Quintana Roo)
Visited: Yes
Kohunlich submitted by LivingRocks on 13th Apr 2007. The Temple of the Masks.
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Chichen Itza
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Yucatan)
Visited: Yes
Chichen Itza submitted by Jurgen on 5th Dec 2006. Mayan Temple complex in Yucatan, Mexico.
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Coba'
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Quintana Roo)
Visited: Yes
Coba' submitted by davidmorgan on 11th Apr 2007. Nohoch Mul, the main pyramid at Coba, is 42 metres tall.
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Petra, Nabataean Town
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Jordan
Visited: Yes
Petra, Nabataean Town submitted by neolithique02 on 11th Apr 2012. The Deir.
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Theatre of Dionysus
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece
Visited: Yes
Theatre of Dionysus submitted by AlexHunger on 20th Aug 2006. Ancient theatre just below the Acropolis in Athens.
There are neolithic caves in the cliff-side just above.
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Athens Acropolis
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes
Athens Acropolis submitted by Alun on 27th Jan 2004. The Acropolis at Athens is the big rock which all the temples sit on.
The temple you can see peeking over the fortifications is the Parthenon.
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Parthenon
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes
Parthenon submitted by Antonios on 30th Jul 2008. Site in Attica/Central Greece: Parthenon
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Sounion Temple of Athena
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes
Sounion Temple of Athena submitted by AlexHunger on 23rd Aug 2006. Foundations of destroyed 5th century BCE Temple of Athena, near Temple of Poseidon.
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Sounion Temple of Poseidon
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes
Sounion Temple of Poseidon submitted by AlexHunger on 23rd Aug 2006. 5th century BCE Temple of Poseidon on the the southernmost point of Attica surounded by the Aegean on 3 sides.
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Place de la Concorde Obelisk
Date Added: 25th Jul 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Ile-de-France:Paris (75))
Visited: Yes
Place de la Concorde Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger on 8th Jul 2005. Place de la Concorde Obelisk
Taken from Egypt and placed in the center of Paris. It originaly stood in front of the temple of Luxor, where its twin remains. Similar to Cleopatra's needle in London, there are more captured obelisks of this kind in Central Park New York or Rome etc. It received a Gold cap on the Pyramidon tip for the year 2000.
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