Monday, September 1, 2008

P,M,D, three ancient sites in Turkey

The single stone in the middle weighs over 70 Tonnes, engineering feat or what.

We went to three towns from the Roman era, again just to be there and see the extent of the building and systematic layout of the cities, what can be said?

some of the detail in the marble

the columns are 18 metres high and the cost of one column was equivalent about one workers wages for 4 years, if I remember correctly

there were only three of on this tour and this is the temple of Zeus 


The important people got to sit in the real front row for the shows,   think there have been a lot of bottoms in these seats because for stone they were quite comfortable.

Columns left to lay where the fell in different earthquakes.  note the holes to assist in lining up the sections of columns

peek a boo I see you

This tub was supposed to have the eternal flame going in it so anyone who needed fire could alway get one started

1 comment:

Hemant Saluja said...

Turkey is a nice place and enjoying in old monuments is like an opportunity, and I would be grateful to visit here.

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