Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2020

Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa

Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa are located in Alexandria, Egypt. Half a kilometer to the northeast is the Serapeum of Alexandria, which is another archaeological site in the area. The Serapeum of Alexandria is considered to have been built by the Greeks in the 3rd century BC. Coordinates 31.178942, 29.893170 Description The site is thought to date to the Hellenistic period, and Roman, Greek, and Egyptian cultural attributes can be found throughout. The site is considered to have three levels dug into the rock, being up to 35 meters deep. The Catacombs consist of a triclinium, dining room, rotunda, Hall of Caracalla, and sarcophagi. The entrance is from the southeast side near the staircase at a 40° angle. The Catacombs' size is 25 metres by 50 metres. It is thought the site was an earlier burial ground where visitors brought clay pots of food for themselves, leaving the pots as they departed. Hence, this is where the name derived from. Analysis The tomb...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Rollright Stones

The Rollright Stones The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. They were constructed from local oolitic limestone  and are thought to date to the 4th-2nd millennium bc, they  are known as the King's Men, the Whispering Knights in Oxfordshire and the King Stone in Warwickshire. The King's Men is the stone circle consisting of 57 stones, the Whispering Knights is a collection of 6 stones, and the King Stone is by itself. The three create a triangle with the angles as 19°/58°/103° between them, if the area in feet is divided by 3600 a number near the vertical angle (62°) is produced with the perimeter divided by the horizontal angle (4°) producing 689ft. (This uses the measurements sides as 1250ft/1088ft/417ft) 221374÷3,600=61.5 2756÷4=689 1250÷1088=1.15 1088÷417=2.61 The ratios reducing gi...
Post a Comment
Read more

Dolmen de Keriaval 

Dolmen de Keriaval   The Dolmen de Keriaval is a dolmen near Carnac in Morbihan, France, it is located in a wood northeast of the hamlet of Keriaval and is 2.743km away from Carnac through an angle of 40° about an arc due to the size of the site. Other sites nearby include the Mané-Kerioned dolmen which is located 175m to the west at 7°, the Kluder-Yer dolmen 422m to the north at 82°, the Crucuny alignment about 400 m to the north-east, menhirs from Kériaval about 130 m to the east, alignment of Kériaval about 110 m to the southwest and the Dolmen de Kéric-la-Lande about 1200m at 4.5° towards the north. Dolmen de Kermario on the Carnac site is 2550m at 29.5° towards the south. Coordinates 47.615349,-3.083279 Altitude 15m (49ft) Dolmen de Keriaval can be best described as two dolmens both not in good condition. Both dolmens point towards the southwest with one at 45° and the other at 63°. Analysis  Although unlike the typical shaped dolmen like the Dolmen de Kermario and...
Post a Comment
Read more

Templo Mayor

Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan The Templo Mayor, Spanish for Greater Temple, was the main temple of the Aztec people in the capital city of Tenochtitlan, located in modern-day Mexico City. It was part of the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica, 900-1521 ad (1200-1450 ad more accurately based on livestock sacrifices but continuing until 1521 ad). The two shrines on the pyramid represented both Huitzilopochtli, the god of war, and Tlaloc, the god of rain and agriculture. The construction of the first Templo Major began sometime after 1325 ad (rebuilt six times), and the temple was said to be destroyed by the Spanish in 1521 ad to make way for the cathedral. Coordinates 19.434884,-99.131149 Other temples The spire, a circular building, was devoted to Quetzalcoatl in his form as the wind god Ehecatl, to its left was the Sun Temple, Tonatiuh. The Calmecac Complex was towards the right, and another Skull Rack and Sepent Wall were located in the centre. On either sid...
Post a Comment
Read more

Chichen Itza's Tomb

Chichen Itza's Tomb  Chichén Itzá's Tomb of the High Priest, also known as the Ossuary or Osario, which means "burial place," is located in Tinúm Municipality, Yucatán State, Mexico. It is thought to have been built by the Mayan people during the Terminal Classic period (800-900 ad) and is similar to other structures. It consists of seven layers and features statues of feathered serpents. Coordinates 20.681478,-88.570692 Chichen Itza's tomb for the high priest from the Platform of the Jaguar is roughly 1098 feet (329.4 m) at 28.5° away toward the south. It is 30 feet high with a 36-foot-deep shaft at the center. (There is a lunar pattern that forms every 756 years (in 36 years) of solar eclipses. These form in pairs with the next after 1854 bc as 1097/1098 bc.) From 1854 bc to 342 bc, there are 2 x 756 years. When adding 1.72° to 342 and dividing by 1854, a golden ratio is produced. 1854-756=1098 bc 1854-756-756=342 bc 342+1.72=343.72 When using these numbers...
Post a Comment
Read more

Pyramid of Hermel

Pyramid of Hermel The Pyramid of Hermel or Karmouh el Hermel is an ancient pyramid located 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) south of Hermel in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. The Pyramid of Hermel is also known as God's Pyramid , House of El , the Funnel of Hermel , Needle of Hermel , and located nearby, is the ‘Āmūd al Hirmil monument. The Karmouh el Hermel is thought to date to the 1st century bc and was partly restored in 1931, it sits on three steps of black basalt stone 1m high with a maximum height of 27 metres (89 ft). The pyramid itself is made entirely of small stone blocks similar to the ones it was repaired with, a winding path roughly at 32° leads towards the southwest. The ‘Āmūd al Hirmil monument could have been built from the remains of a building destroyed, various stones litter the area of which some could be parts of the Karmouh el Hermel which has been slightly repaired. Coordinates 34.364297,36.415596 Altitude 728m 2388f...
Post a Comment
Read more