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• Brown: bedrock • Yellow/white: sand • Green: vegetation • Blue: salty sediments. The Richat Structure is the location of exceptional accumulations of Acheulean artifacts. [14] [15] These Acheulean archaeological sites are located along wadis that occupy the outermost annular depression of this structure. Pre-Acheulean stone tools also ...
Continuing the naming pattern, it is called "complex E". Owing to its similarity to the cult buildings at Nevalı Çori, it has also been called the "Temple of the Rock". Its floor has been carefully hewn out of the bedrock and smoothed, reminiscent of the terrazzo floors of the younger complexes at Göbekli Tepe. Immediately northwest of this ...
The Ramesseum is the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great", also spelled "Ramses" and "Rameses"). It is located in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt, on the west of the River Nile, across from the modern city of Luxor.
The site also includes several temples, cemeteries, and the remains of a workers' village. The site is at the edge of the Western Desert , approximately 9 km (5.6 mi) west of the Nile River in the city of Giza , and about 13 km (8.1 mi) southwest of the city centre of Cairo .
The Badain Jaran Temple in September alongside its lake. The Badain Jaran Temple (bā dān jí lín miào 巴丹吉林庙) is a well-preserved Tibetan-Buddhist temple located in the middle of the desert. It was built in 1868 at the side of a lake. Its isolation allowed it to survive untouched and safe from the Cultural Revolution. The fine ...
The Temple of Seti I is now known as the Great Temple of Abydos. In antiquity, the temple was known as " Menmaatre Happy in Abydos," and is a significant historical site in Abydos . [ 1 ] Abydos is a significant location with its connection to kingship due to being the burial site of the proto-kings from the Pre-Dynastic period , First Dynasty ...
Remains of Temple of Hathor, Serabit el-Khadim. Serabit el-Khadim (Arabic: سرابيط الخادم Arabic pronunciation: [saraːˈbiːtˤ alˈxaːdɪm]; also transliterated Serabit al-Khadim, Serabit el-Khadem) is a locality in the southwest Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, where turquoise was mined extensively in antiquity, mainly by the ancient Egyptians.
Takht-e Rostam (Dari: تخت رستم) or Stupa of Takht-e Rostam [1] is a stupa Buddhist monastery complex 2 km south of the town of Haibak, Afghanistan. [2] Built in the 3rd-4th century AD while the area was part of the Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom the complex is carved entirely from the bedrock and "consists of five chambers, two of them sanctuaries.