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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...
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La Venta

La Venta La Venta is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Olmec civilization located in the present-day Mexican state of Tabasco.  The Olmec were one of the first civilizations to develop in the Americas, and it was thought their spread through 1800 bc through to 200 ad was said to influence Mesoamerica culture . There are a number of Colossal Heads on site, some of which have been moved to the Parque-Museo La Venta . Coordinates 18.103490,-94.040972 Description There are two ways or possibilities of describing La Venta, (1) a few sculpted heads and various stones remain of a long distance civilization who moved for whatever reason, (2) only a few sculpted head and various stones were ever produced with the pyramid being roughly shaped from the landscape following the only pyramids existing in 1800 bc, that of the Pyramids of Giza . Analysis It has been shown that there was a time when the Mesoamericas didn't follow European or Middl...
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Great Pyramid of Cholula

Great Pyramid of Cholula The Great Pyramid of Cholula, also known as Tlachihualtepetl , is a complex located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.  It has the largest volume of any pyramid that exists in the world today. The adobe brick pyramid stood 55m tall (180 ft) above the surrounding plain with a base of 450m. Thought to have been dedicated to the god  Quetzalcoatl , with building starting in the 3rd century bc and continuing in stages until 9th century ad . The architectural style of the building was linked closely to that of  Teotihuacan  in the  Valley of Mexico , although influence from the  Gulf Coast is also evident, especially from  El Tajín . Coordinates 19.058022,-98.302668 Description From it's layout it was suggested that the pyramid was approached by steps three layers high followed by a seven layer structure, in reality only the base layer of the seven exists with a side elevation of three l...
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Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle

Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle  The Easter Aquhorthies stone circle is located near  Inverurie  in northeast Scotland . It is considered as one of the few that still have their full complement of stones and the only one that has all its stones still standing without having been re-erected. It consists of a ring of nine stones, eight of which are grey granite and one red jasper. Two more grey granite stones flank a recumbent of red granite. The circle is particularly notable for its builders' use of  polychromy  in the stones, with the reddish ones situated on the SSW side and the grey ones opposite. The circle's surroundings were landscaped in the late 19th century and currently sit within a small, fenced and walled enclosure. A stone dyke , known as a roundel , was built around the circle some time between 1847-1867 before  being brought to wider public attention in the 1870s and 1880s by a series of paintings , drawings and descripti...
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Torre del Mangia

Torre del Mangia  The Torre del Mangia is a tower in the town of  Siena in the  Tuscany  region of Italy. It was built between 1338-1348 ad and is situated by the  Piazza del Campo . At 102 m it is the second tallest after Cremona's Torrazzo 112 m with the  Asinelli tower  in  Bologna  at 97 m being third tallest, it was also designed to be taller than Giotto's Campanile at 85m in Florence . Shortly after construction, it was fitted with a clock. It is part of the Palazzo Pubblico , a palace, who's construction began in 1297 ad to serve as the seat of the  Republic of Siena 's government. Siena, like other Tuscan hill towns, was first settled in the time of the  Etruscans  900-400 bc when it was inhabited by a tribe called the Saina . The town of Siena has multiple medieval buildings, including the cathedral Duomo di Siena built between 1215-1263 ad and the church Bas...
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Coba

Coba  Coba is an ancient Mayan city on the Yucatán Peninsula, located in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.  The site contains a number of buildings, with the largest known as Nohoch Mul, directly north, which is a raised area of about 120m. The bulk of Coba's major construction seems to have been made in the middle and late Classic period 500-900 ad, although further builds were constructed into the Post-Classic upto the 15th century, the ball court is in the best condition and may fit this description. The site features sacbeobs, which are raised platform walkways. The Nohoch Mul pyramid is also known as the Ixmoja pyramid. Buildings Nohoch Mul pyramid (45° southwest, 42m) (7 layers) Ball court (38° northeast) (1 layer) Observatorio Astronómico de Cobá (34° northwest, 10m) (5 layers) Coordinates 20.496133,-87.720619 In between these three buildings, a triangle can be formed like from other builds, the angles are 101°/72°/7° the spac...
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