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Silent Hill 2 is set in the small resort town of Silent Hill in Maine. [4] [5] Shrouded in a thick fog, the town is apparently abandoned and unkempt, but Silent Hill presents a seemingly shifting infrastructure, in which the player experiences an even more worn and decaying version of the town, and the Otherworld, marked by rust, wire fences, and an encompassing darkness.
Mikon, a Greek man (potentially a shepherd) from the 6 th century BC, may have left us the ultimate clue to an unknown temple that once filled the space now occupied by the great Parthenon.And ...
Parthenon simulates commerce in the Aegean Sea around 600 B.C. 3–6 players begin with control of two villages and a fleet of ships on an island within the Aegean. Each player develops their island through trade, adding villages and structures. A game represents three years of time, and each year is divided into four seasons of ten phases.
Video games taking place during the age of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire, or Byzantium. Pages in category "Video games set in the Byzantine Empire" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
In 1894, Balanos was given responsibility for the restoration of the Parthenon, which had been damaged in earthquakes over the previous year. [1] The supervising committee appointed by the Greek Archaeological Service to oversee the work had decided to make a partial reconstruction of the temple, which would strengthen the damaged parts and ...
The Parthenon had 46 outer columns and 23 inner columns in total, each column having 20 flutes. (A flute is the concave shaft carved into the column form.) The roof was covered with large overlapping marble tiles known as imbrices and tegulae. [66] [67] The Parthenon is regarded as the finest example of Greek architecture.
The Elgin Marbles (/ ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɪ n / ELG-in) [1] [2] are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London.
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