Tomb of Ramesses II Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great, was buried in Tomb KV7, located in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. He was the son of Seti I and Tuya and reigned from 1279 to 1213 BCE. He constructed monuments at Abu Simbel, Abydos, Rame sseum, L uxor, a nd Karnak. Coordinates 25.740776,32.601625 Description Current measurements divide the tomb into three levels: level 1, the entrance corridor; level 2, the pillared chamber; and level 3, the burial chamber and rooms. 3D mapping of the tomb enables measurements to be taken. Measurements Entrance corridor; 22.90m by 2.61m /44 by 5 cubits Floor area: 220 sq cubits Opening in corridor 8.35m by 8.35m by 3.7m Floor area: 70 sq m² Volume: 259m³/1795 cubit³ Room off corridor 7.85×8.48×3.10 m Floor area: 66.50 sq m Volume: 206.4 m³/1442.5 cubit³ Room off corridor (2) 5.38×3.30×2.63 m Floor area: 46.7 sq m Volume 46.7 m³/326.4 cubit³ End of corridor 6.3×5.72×2.82 Floor area: 36 sq m Volume: 101.6 m³/7...
Brochs
Brochs were used as dwellings and were initially a design used in Denmark in the Iron Age. They evolved from a one-story stone building of loosely aligned stones, which in turn evolved from wooden structures.
Romans
Before the Roman invasion of Britain, settlers in the north were of Scandinavian origin, while settlers in the east were mostly farmers from mainland Europe. These brochs, which were built by the Danes or Picts from Denmark and Norway, could be located in many areas around the northern coasts.
Along with the main building structure, further outbuildings were built to house animals and food stocks.
Vikings
There was a slow progression of settlers onto the British mainland until the 8th/9th century ad when the Vikings emerged, and many more locations on the mainland were settled by them. These locations would have been sites that were settled before, given the similarity of buildings in Denmark to buildings there.
Harald I Fairhair, the first King of Norway, who reigned from Audunborg Castle, would have chosen the locations of settlements in Shetland and Orkney, along with locations in Denmark. (Harald I Fairhair, castle is now only a ruin at Jølster, with the nearby Avaldsnes Kongsgård Castle at Karmøy being built for his sons.)
Also around this time, the Normans emerged in France and collaborated with the Vikings to resettle the mainland.
Shetland
The Broch of Mousa on Shetland is one of the few nearly intact buildings remaining.
The buildings themselves contained a staircase that ran between the two walls joining the levels, and a wooden roof completed the structure. These differ from Bronze Age buildings at Jarlshof, which were built by the Scandinavians who also built in Orkney. Brochs varied from 5 to 10 meters tall with 3-meter-thick walls as the main structure and smaller roofed buildings around the main structure, which were used as outbuildings.
Scandinavian
Scandinavian buildings could have walls of similar thickness, but the structure was backfilled stone walls with a wooden roof.
For the Bronze Age, the main buildings were used for living as well as cooking, and toilets were also located there. Outbuildings housed animals and stored food. As locations were chosen for their strategic purposes, like harbours and proximity to farmland and timber, settlements were reused by other settlers in different eras, and the reuse could explain inaccuracies in dating.
Broch
Harald Fairhair
Archeology77 ©
Brochs were used as dwellings and were initially a design used in Denmark in the Iron Age. They evolved from a one-story stone building of loosely aligned stones, which in turn evolved from wooden structures.
Romans
Before the Roman invasion of Britain, settlers in the north were of Scandinavian origin, while settlers in the east were mostly farmers from mainland Europe. These brochs, which were built by the Danes or Picts from Denmark and Norway, could be located in many areas around the northern coasts.
Along with the main building structure, further outbuildings were built to house animals and food stocks.
Vikings
There was a slow progression of settlers onto the British mainland until the 8th/9th century ad when the Vikings emerged, and many more locations on the mainland were settled by them. These locations would have been sites that were settled before, given the similarity of buildings in Denmark to buildings there.
Harald I Fairhair, the first King of Norway, who reigned from Audunborg Castle, would have chosen the locations of settlements in Shetland and Orkney, along with locations in Denmark. (Harald I Fairhair, castle is now only a ruin at Jølster, with the nearby Avaldsnes Kongsgård Castle at Karmøy being built for his sons.)
Also around this time, the Normans emerged in France and collaborated with the Vikings to resettle the mainland.
Shetland
The Broch of Mousa on Shetland is one of the few nearly intact buildings remaining.
The buildings themselves contained a staircase that ran between the two walls joining the levels, and a wooden roof completed the structure. These differ from Bronze Age buildings at Jarlshof, which were built by the Scandinavians who also built in Orkney. Brochs varied from 5 to 10 meters tall with 3-meter-thick walls as the main structure and smaller roofed buildings around the main structure, which were used as outbuildings.
Scandinavian
Scandinavian buildings could have walls of similar thickness, but the structure was backfilled stone walls with a wooden roof.
For the Bronze Age, the main buildings were used for living as well as cooking, and toilets were also located there. Outbuildings housed animals and stored food. As locations were chosen for their strategic purposes, like harbours and proximity to farmland and timber, settlements were reused by other settlers in different eras, and the reuse could explain inaccuracies in dating.
Broch
Harald Fairhair
Archeology77 ©
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