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This is a list of archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites . [ 1 ]
The Andrew B. VanHuys Round Barn is a round barn near Lebanon, Indiana, United States.Built in 1912, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [1]It is the only surviving historic round barn in Indiana made of concrete block construction.
After the 2006 war, conservation work at Lebanon's historic sites began in October that year. [176] The ruins at Baalbek were not directly hit by Israeli bombing but the effects of blasts during the conflict toppled a block of stones at the Roman ruins and existing cracks in the temples of Jupiter and Bacchus were feared to have widened. [176]
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Indiana, in the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984. [2] The historian Ernest Renan noted that "One can call Tyre a city of ruins, built out of ruins". [3] [4] Tyre is the fifth largest city in Lebanon after Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, and Baalbek. [5]
The blocks known as the Trilithon (the upper of the two largest courses of stone pictured) in the Temple of Jupiter Baal. The Trilithon (Greek: Τρίλιθον), also called the Three Stones, is a group of three horizontally lying giant stones that form part of the podium of the Temple of Jupiter Baal at Baalbek.
The dedication of the present temple ruins, the largest religious building in the entire Roman empire, dates from the reign of Septimus Severus, whose coins first show the two temples. The great courts of approach were not finished before the reigns of Caracalla (211-217 CE) and Philip the Arab (244-249 CE).
Archaeology of Lebanon includes thousands of years of history ranging from Lower Palaeolithic, Phoenician, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and Crusades periods. Overview of Baalbek in the late 19th century Archaeological site in Beirut Greek inscription on one of the tombs found in the Roman - Byzantine necropolis, Tyre Trihedral Neolithic axe or pick ...