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A drawing of the ruins made by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1849. The first mention of the statues can be found in the work of the Greek historian Herodotus (fl. 5th century BC), [4] [2] who claims in his Histories that "in the centre [of Lake Moeris] there stand two pyramids, rising to the height of fifty fathoms above the surface of the water, and extending as far beneath, crowned each of them ...
The Parc del Laberint d'Horta (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈpaɾɡ dəl ləβəˈɾin ˈdɔɾtə], "Park of the Labyrinth of Horta", sometimes referred to as Jardins (Gardens) del Laberint d'Horta) is a historical garden in the Horta-Guinardó district in Barcelona and the oldest of its kind in the city.
A reconstruction of the Labyrinth of Egypt's western portion (center). The structure itself was formerly located at the foot of the Pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara (right). The Labyrinth of Egypt was built at Hawara by Amenemhat III, who ruled c. 1800 BC as the sixth pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty.
The Lake District is a major sanctuary for the red squirrel and has the largest population in England (out of the estimated 140,000 red squirrels in the United Kingdom, compared with about 2.5 million grey squirrels). [41] The Lake District is home to a range of bird species, [42] and the RSPB maintain a reserve in Haweswater. [43]
Kolossi Castle is a former Crusader stronghold on the south-west edge of Kolossi village 14 kilometres (9 mi) west of the city of Limassol on the island of Cyprus. [1] It held great strategic importance in the Middle Ages, and contained large facilities for the production of sugar from the local sugarcane, one of Cyprus's main exports in the period.
Colossae was located in Phrygia, in Asia Minor. [2] It was located 15 km (9.3 mi) southeast of Laodicea on the road through the Lycus Valley near the Lycus River at the foot of Mt. Cadmus, the highest mountain in Turkey's western Aegean Region, and between the cities Sardeis and Celaenae, and southeast of the ancient city of Hierapolis.
Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie may be the stars of Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy classic Labyrinth, but they're surrounded by scene-stealing puppets who seem every bit as human.That's the special ...
The Lake District Mysteries are a series of detective novels by British crime writer Martin Edwards. The books feature Hannah Scarlett and the historian Daniel Kind, and are the first series of crime novels by a British detective novelist to be set in the Lake District , a region in North-West England .