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Oslo Ship Museum
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Museum
Country: Norway (Oslo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Oslo Ship Museum submitted by Thorgrim on 25th Feb 2006. The Oseberg Viking ship was used to bury a Viking Queen in a great mound. Notice the steering oar that gave us our "starboard".
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Vedsted Jættestue 2
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Denmark (Syddanmark)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Vedsted Jættestue 2 submitted by holger_rix on 31st Jul 2010. Round Barrow, "Holmshøj", 3.25 m high, 26 meters diameter.
Top flat, slightly sloping towards NE.
Inside the barrow, the northern half of a burial chamber.
The chamber has been restored in a questionable way several years before 1927.
(danish text: 'en ret daarlig' = 'rather poor')
A modern passage is leading into the tomb from east, the original
passage is missing.
In the chamber the seven northern upright stones are original,
two stones against west, three against north, ...
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Vedsted Langdysse 3
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: Denmark (Syddanmark)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Vedsted Langdysse 3 submitted by holger_rix on 31st Jul 2010. Long Barrow, 52.50 m l in NE-SW, 11 m wide.
Earth mound from 1.75 to 2.25 m high.
Midst of this a hole, the chamber has been robbed.
Of chambers seen a side stone towards W, 1.50 m x 0.50 m, partial
covered with soil, and a burst stump. 6 kerb stones, partly bursted,
at the west side, 4 against south, 2 against north.
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Vedsted Runddysse 1
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Denmark (Syddanmark)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Vedsted Runddysse 1 submitted by holger_rix on 30th Jul 2010. Partially disturbed Round Barrow. Earth mound is still 1 to 1.25 m high,
15 meters diameter. 22 kerb stones in place. Some have been removed,
but have been replaced.
In the middle was a large chamber, which is now quite covered with earth.
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Vedsted Jættestue 1
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Denmark (Syddanmark)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Vedsted Jættestue 1 submitted by holger_rix on 31st Jul 2010. Remains of a kerbed Round Barrow 1.2 x 16.0 m.
Excavated and restored 1968, a stone chamber with passage.
The hill is surrounded by a rim stone chain,
which is only interrupted in the W side of the hill.
In the south side a visible chamber oriented NS, set of three pairs side stones
and three capstones in continuation of the passage consisting of eight orthostats
of which two are shared with the chamber, and another capstone.
The height of the chamber is about 1 m.
Part of t...
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Vedsted Langdysse 2
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: Denmark (Syddanmark)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Vedsted Langdysse 2 submitted by holger_rix on 31st Jul 2010. Long Barrow, 92 m long NE-SW, 10 m wide.
It was build side by side with the even longer 115 m 'Vedsted Langdysse 1'.
Earth mound from 1.50 to 2.00 m high, somewhat disturbed by excavations.
10 m from barrows SW-end a hole straight to the hill bottom, about 7-8 m wide.
Herein seen a bursted stone, most likely one of a chambers orthostats.
22 m from SW-end a similar hole with opening towards N.
34 m from NE-end a third hole.
Only a small number of kerb stones survived, most of them ...
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Vedsted Langdysse 1
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: Denmark (Syddanmark)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Vedsted Langdysse 1 submitted by holger_rix on 30th Jul 2010. A mighty Long Barrow, 115 m long of NE-SW direction, 8-12 m wide.
Earth mound from 1.50 to 2.00 m high.
15 m from NE-end a hole of 6 m diameter.
9 m from this a similar hole, equal to the mound bottom; herein seen
two large, significant land covered stones from a destroyed chamber.
14 m, 20 m and 32 m from barrows SW-End seen similar holes of robbed
chambers. (Distances are measured to the centers of the holes).
In the middle are two stones blasted, in the southernmost two other b...
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Terracotta Army
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: China
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Terracotta Army submitted by davidmorgan on 18th Sep 2010. One of the warriors.
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Longmen Caves
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: China
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Longmen Caves submitted by DrewParsons on 7th Nov 2008. Longmen Buddhist Caves near the city of Luoyang in Henan province. Carved between 500 and 700 CE but subjected to Red Guard vandalism in the 1960's and before that in the 19th century western souvenir hunters and museum collectors who cut heads off with saws, sometimes taking whole murals.
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The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Museum
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
The Malta National Museum of Archaeology submitted by Bjorn on 7th Jun 2007. Entrance to the museum in Republic Street.
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Mnajdra
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Mnajdra submitted by enkidu41 on 27th Apr 2004. A prehistoric temple attractively situated above the cliffs.
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Hagar Qim
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Hagar Qim submitted by tfar on 3rd Jan 2009. Steel arches erected over Hagar Qim Temple to support the protective bubble that has yet to be installed.
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St Paul's Catacombs
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
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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British Museum
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
British Museum submitted by Thorgrim on 1st Apr 2004. The greatest portal to the treasures of the ancient world.
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Cleopatra's Needle (London)
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Cleopatra's Needle (London) submitted by Thorgrim on 26th Mar 2006. The oldest man-made object in London can be seen on the Embankment. Its height makes our homegrown standing stones look quite stunted. See main site page for more information
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London Natural History Museum
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2012. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
London Natural History Museum submitted by dodomad on 3rd Feb 2014. Hoxnian anters, bones & hand axe from Swanscombe
Image copyright: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum
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Neues Museum Berlin
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Museum
Country: Germany (Brandenburg, Berlin)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Neues Museum Berlin submitted by davidmorgan on 17th Jun 2007. The bust of Nefertiti by the sculptor Thutmose. This was in the Egyptian Museum but is now on Museum Island (a World Heritage site) in the Neues Museum in Berlin.
Photo July 1990.
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Pergamon Museum
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Museum
Country: Germany (Brandenburg, Berlin)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Pergamon Museum submitted by AlexHunger on 25th Oct 2005. Pergamon Museum
Vorderasiatisches Museum
Very extensive Museum of Middle Eastern archaeological artefacts, including Babylon gate.
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Heliopolis Seti I Piazza del Popolo Obelisk
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Italy
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Heliopolis Seti I Piazza del Popolo Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger on 12th Apr 2009. Site in Rome: Obelisk from the temple of Heliopolis made under the reign of Seti I . It was brought to Rome by Augustus in 10 BCE and erected on the spina of the Circus Maximus. It is now in the Piazza del Popolo.
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Sais - Piazza Minerva Obelisk
Date Added: 11th Jul 2015
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Italy
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Sais - Piazza Minerva Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger on 12th Apr 2009. Site in Rome: One of a pair of Obelisks from Sais in the Western Nile Delta. It was brought to Rome by Diocletian for the Temple of Isis.
It is now in the Piazza della Minerva behind the Pantheon. The other of the pair is now in Urbino.
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