Esther's photos with the keyword: ancient

Temple of Abu Simbel Egypt AIMG 4200

Temple of Abu Simbel Egypt Sunday Challenge - Inspired by a book. I am currently reading the book, Empress of the Nile, a biography of Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, a French Egyptologist who battled with chauvinism throughout her career. She helped save the treasures of the Louvre during the Nazi invasion and raised awareness and funds to save the temples along the Nile that would otherwise have been lost due to the building of Aswan Dam. AIMG 4202

Temple of Abu Simbel Egypt AIMG 4152

Temple of Abu Simbel Egypt AIMG 4149

New Bedford Museum of Glass AIMG 5794

New Bedford Museum of Glass AIMG 5795

This ancient Canaanite sarcophagus from the Late Bronze Age, 14th–13th century BCE, evidences an Egyptian influence. For more information, see www.imj.org.il/imagine/galleries/viewItemE.asp?case=2&itemNum=198016 . IMG 5355

View from the Palantine Hill of the Colosseum - Rome AIMG 8853

Colosseum - Rome AIMG 8861

Temple of Castor and Pollux AIMG 8856

Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Antropologia e Historia del Peru, Lima, Peru AIMG 0631

Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Antropologia e Historia del Peru, Lima, Peru AIMG 0629

Cape Tribulation, Daintree Rainforest, Queensland, Australia AIMG 7421

Not all that much has changed in Venice, Italy since Canaletto's time. AIMG_4849

St. Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy. "The Horses of Saint Mark were installed on the basilica in about 1254. They date to Classical Antiquity; by some accounts they once adorned the Arch of Trajan. The horses were long displayed at the Hippodrome of Constantinople, and in 1204 Doge Enrico Dandolo sent them back to Venice as part of the loot sacked from Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade. They were taken to Paris by Napoleon in 1797 but returned to Venice in 1815. After a long restoration, since the 1990s they have been kept in St Mark’s Museum (inside the basilica). The horses now on the facade of the cathedral are bronze replicas." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Basilica en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Basilica

Constructed in 133 AD, Trajan's Column in ancient Rome commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. The column is approximately 98 feet tall, excluding its base and is decorated with carvings depicting Trajan's two victories against the Dacians. AIMG_22343

A doorway carving over a temple entranc. Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal. Durbar Square has numerous ancient temples, palaces, courtyards and streets that date from the 12th to the 18th Century, AIMG_0182

Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal consists of numerous ancient temples, palaces, courtyards and streets that date from the 12th to the 18th Century. AIMG_0178