Category: MONUMENTS & TRAVEL
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The Wari
(Spanish: Huari) were a Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in the south-central Andes and coastal area of modern-day Peru, from about 500 to 1000 AD. Wari, as the former capital city was called, is located 11 km (6.8 mi) north-east of the modern city of Ayacucho, Peru. This city was the center of a civilization […]
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Raymond Mauny (1912-1994) is a French historian , specialist in prehistory and protohistory of Africa, in particular of Senegal and Mali .
Raymond Mauny studied law at the University of Poitiers and received his master’s degree in 1940, with a thesis titled The colonial dilemma in Franco-Italian relations since 1918. In 1937, he joined the AOF’s civil service administration because he was passionate about Africa. In 1947, he joined the French Institute of Black Africa in Dakar, […]
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The Colossi of Memnon are 2 sandstone statues of the Egyptian Pharoah Amenhotep III
which have stood for the past 3,400 a long time within the Theban Necropolis, fair west of the city of Luxor in Egypt. They were built to stand protect at the entrance of Amenhotep’s dedication sanctuary, small of which remains nowadays. Its establishment was as well near to the Nile, and gradually dissolved absent over the centuries. At 18 meters tall (60 feet) and weigh around 720 tons each, the Colossi are all that stay, but both have endured broad harm over the a […]
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Henry Moore & Reclining Figure, The arrangement of these three nude females recalls the traditional composition of ‘The Three Graces
Reclining Figure 1938 (LH 192) is a small sculpture by Henry Moore of an sinuous abstracted human figure. An enlarged version was made in 1984 for the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Singapore. The resulting Large Reclining Figure (LH 192b) is some 9 metres (30 ft) long, making it the largest sculpture made by Moore. Reclining Figure […]
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The Arch by Henry Moores
The Arch could be a six-metre tall Roman travertine design situated on the north bank of the Long Water. It was displayed by the craftsman Henry Moore to the country for siting in Kensington Gardens in 1980 – two a long time after his eightieth-birthday show at the Serpentine Display, London. The Arch is made from seven travertine stones weighing a add up to of 37 tons. The stones were sourced from a quarry in northern Italy. After being dismantled in […]
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Thomas Charles Llethbridge, – Philosophy, Ethnology and Archaeology.
Thomas Charles Lethbridge (23 March 1901 – 30 September 1971), better known as T. C. Lethbridge, was an English archaeologist, parapsychologist, and explorer. A specialist in Anglo-Saxon archaeology, he served as honorary Keeper of Anglo-Saxon Antiquities at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology from 1923 to 1957, and over the course of his […]
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V. Gordon Childe , cultural, historical, archaeologist
Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 1892 – 19 October 1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialized in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London. He wrote twenty-six books during his career. […]
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William Stukeley
William Stukeley FRS FSA (7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765) was an English antiquarian, physician and Anglican clergyman. A significant influence on the later development of archaeology, he pioneered the scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire. He published over twenty books on archaeology and other subjects during his […]
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The bridge is named after Pero, also known as Pero Jones, who lived from around 1753 to 1798, arriving in Bristol from the Caribbean Island of Nevis in 1783, as the slave of the merchant John Pinney (1740-1818) at 7 Great George Street. History. The bridge was designed by the Irish artist Eilis O’Connell, in […]
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Heraion of Samos – Heritage preservation
The Heraion of Samos was a large sanctuary to the goddess Hera, on the island of Samos, Greece, 6 km southwest of the ancient city of Samos (modern Pythagoreion), in the low, marshy basin of the Imbrasos river, near where it enters the sea. The late Archaic temple in the sanctuary was the first of […]
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