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  • Mexico's Agua Azul Waterfalls appears on a large ad for Mexican tourism, with the City of London architecture on the northern side of the River Thames. As symbols of ancient and modern architecture in a single scene, we see the development of human endeavour over millennia. The City of London is a city and ceremonial county within London. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the conurbation has since grown far beyond the City's borders. The City is now only a tiny part of the metropolis of London, though it remains a notable part of central London.
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  • Fallen Ionic and Doric columns lay in the undergrowth at Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and in the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery here. These fluted columns that date to about 400BC that now lie in the shade were originally piled on top of each other to construct - among other buildings too - the Temple of Zeus. There, the athletes made offerings to Nike, the Goddess of Victory before going out to compete in the many sports. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
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  • A detail from an ancient Assyrian stone carving 883-859 BC from Nimrud depicting a scene from the court of King Ashurnasirpal, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England. The detailed reliefs on display in Rooms 7-8 originally stood in the palace throne-room and in other royal apartments. They depict the king and his subjects engaged in a variety of activities. Ashurnasirpal is shown leading military campaigns against his enemies, engaging in ritual scenes with protective demons and hunting, a royal sport in ancient Mesopotamia.
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  • The landscape surrounding the early 12th century Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, and the priory was founded before the end of 634 and Aidan remained there until his death in 651. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • A detail from a stone carving depicting the royal lion hunt of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, at the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England. It is part of the palace at Nineveh and dates to about 645-635 BC. Captured lions, which had been a menace to domestic animals as well as to men, were released one-by-one from cages into an arena surrounded by dogs and soldiers with tall shields to keep any from escaping. They then were shot by the king from his chariot.
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  • Two crewmen of a felucca row their boat during a drop in wind while sailing on the River Nile at Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Feluccas are ancient Egyptian sail boats which were used in ancient times as a primary mode of transport and are the only type of boat that is still used extensively in the country. Plying this great African river is a cheap fare state-run ferry used by commuters and locals but these sailing boats serve tourists and therefore are the many victims of the tourism downturn. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
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  • A detail of a crewman's foot with the peeling boards of his boat while sailing on the River Nile at Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Feluccas are ancient Egyptian sail boats which were used in ancient times as a primary mode of transport and are the only type of boat that is still used extensively in the country. Plying this great African river is a cheap fare state-run ferry used by commuters and locals but these sailing boats serve tourists and therefore are the many victims of the tourism downturn. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
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  • Modern English and ancient Latin marks the re-burial place of an unknown Roman girl near afternoon drinkers enjoying warm summer sunshine beneath the architecture of the Swiss Re building aka The Gherkin, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Visitors admire the Roman versions of hero warrior Protesilaos sculpture - the first Greek warrior to land and die in Troy, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • The ancient Parthenon (circa 400 BC, the largest Doric temple ever built) sits on Acropolis hill surrounded by global tourists and scaffolding. Here the modern world's philosophy was born, once the centre of classical Greek culture which the world has inherited for its laws and forward-thinking. Mounted above the Athenian city within fortified 60m high walls, its history is a World Heritage Site, important because of its “universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex." The establishment of democracy, took a leading position amongst the other city-states of the ancient world.
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  • An open Christian Bible in the interior of St. Marys church on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • The landscape surrounding the early 12th century Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, and the priory was founded before the end of 634 and Aidan remained there until his death in 651. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-31-27-09-2017.jpg
  • A toilet sign sits near the standing Doric columns and tourists at Olympia's Palaestra or wrestling school. Here, training, instruction and bathing took place in the month before the Games. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • On a partially-demolished building, a mural of the ancient  Goddess Nike remains chipped and scraped on an old restaurant wall. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers at the Temple of Zeus before competition but this site is in the heart of the modern town of Olympia that has grown up around the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad001-20-10_2003_1_1.jpg
  • A crewman of a felucca prepares the sail during a journey on the River Nile at Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Feluccas are ancient Egyptian sail boats which were used in ancient times as a primary mode of transport and are the only type of boat that is still used extensively in the country. Plying this great African river is a cheap fare state-run ferry used by commuters and locals but these sailing boats serve tourists and therefore are the many victims of the tourism downturn. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
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  • A lady visitor admires a sculpture of Cupid, a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original, in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors and the South Stairs of the British Museum, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • The bust of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Neolithic standing stones at Avebury in Wiltshire, England. Two visitors walk along the bank which is the far side of the outer ditch that surrounds this ancient site in southern England. The Avebury complex is one of the principal ceremonial sites of Neolithic Britain that we can visit today. It was built and altered over many centuries from about 2850 BC until about 2200 BC and is one of the largest, and undoubtedly the most complex, of Britain's surviving Neolithic henge monuments. There were originally 98 sarsen standing stones, some weighing in excess of 40 tons and varied in height from 3.6 to 4.2. Avebury is designated a World Heritage Site. Entrance is free.
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  • A cast copy of a classical ancient Greek statue of Apollo in a shop window near Piccadilly Circus, on 30th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • A cast copy of a classical ancient Greek statue of Apollo in a shop window near Piccadilly Circus, on 30th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • High-rise towers on the Southbank and an ad for the new Aardman Animations new release Early Man, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England.
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  • A Jewish gentleman, bus stop graffiti and an ad for the new Aardman Animations new release Early Man, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England.
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  • The modern city of London and the ancient temple Teotihuacan in Mexico. The giant ad for Mexican tourism is a riverside poster opposite 21st Century architecture. The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, laid out on geometric and symbolic principles. The City of London is a city and ceremonial county within London. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the conurbation has since grown far beyond the City's borders.
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  • Atmospheric lighting helps display the reconstructed mid-3rd century Roman Mithraeum also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook where bull-sacrifice was practised, now beneath Bloombergs new European headquarters and open to the public, on 26th November 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Atmospheric lighting helps display the reconstructed mid-3rd century Roman Mithraeum also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook where bull-sacrifice was practised, now beneath Bloombergs new European headquarters and open to the public, on 26th November 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • One of the warning signs alerting motorists of tidal dangers on the causeway between the tidal Lindisfarne island and the Northumbrian mainland, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Despite tide timetables posted all over the area, drivers often mis-time their crossings, their vehicles ending up submerged in salt water. The small Lindisfarne population of just over 160 is swelled by the influx of over 650,000 visitors from all over the world every year. A tidal Island: Lindisfarne is a tidal island in that access is by a paved causeway which is covered by the North Sea twice in every 24 hour period. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • A ruined sandstone wall of the early 12th century Lindisfarne Priory, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, and the priory was founded before the end of 634 and Aidan remained there until his death in 651. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-43-27-09-2017.jpg
  • The rear of a National Trust membership van features Lindisfarne castle, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • An open Christian Bible in the interior of St. Marys church on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-40-27-09-2017.jpg
  • Featuring paraphenalia of local fishing industry, the interior of St. Marys church on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • A coastal landscape of St. Cuthberts Island on Holy Island and in the distance, left, the St. Marys church and the remains of the early 12th century Lindisfarne Priory, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Cuthbert c. 634 - 687 is a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in what might loosely be termed the Kingdom of Northumbria in the North East of England and the South East of Scotland. After his death he became one of the most important medieval saints of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. Cuthbert is regarded as the patron saint of Northern England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • The landscape surrounding the early 12th century Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, and the priory was founded before the end of 634 and Aidan remained there until his death in 651. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • Elite ceremonial soldiers called Evzones or Proedriki Froura (Presidential Guard), parade on Acropolis Hill, Athens. This special contingent of the light infantry unit are on duty at the Acropolis during the national holiday of 'No Day,’ celebrating the day when Mussolini was denied a marching route through Greece in 1941. The Acropolis was once the centre of classical Greek culture which the world has inherited for its laws and philosophical thinking. Mounted above the Athenian city within fortified 60m high walls, its history is a World Heritage Site, important because of its “universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex." The establishment of democracy, took a leading position amongst the other city-states of the ancient world.
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  • Abandoned neon pub sign is on the famous Marathonas Avenue near Nea Makri, the original route that the Athenian messenger Pheidippides ran in 490BC. The runner was sent to deliver word of the Greek victory over Persia at the Battle of Marathon. Running 240 km (150 miles) in two days to request help when the Persians landed, he then ran the 40 km (26 miles) from the battlefield Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon with the words 'We have won'. The story inspired the marathon and at the birthplace of modern sports at ancient Olympia, where for 1,000 continuous years, the ancient pagan festival of sport and debauchery were held. The 29th Olympics came home to Greece in 2004. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered even then, as now.
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  • A tourist crouches on the original 4th century marble starting line at ancient Olympia's athletics track where both ancient Greeks and Romans held their games. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers before competition. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and at the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
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  • Tourists lunge over the original 4th century start/finish line in the stadium at Olympia. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet - or Stadion - from which we get the word 'stadium'. On the grassy bank in the background is where the seating once accommodated the many sporting pilgrims who travelled to this place from all over Greece during agreed truces in the weeks of the Olympic festival. The 29th Olympics came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • Fossil hunters bend down looking among Eocene rocks and stone at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England. Examining the stony ground, the amateur palaeonotologists search for tyhe remains of sea creatures from a bygone era. Warden Point, a pinnacle of eroding land and muddy foreshore. The area encompasses around a million years of sedimentation, dating from the early Eocene epoch of the Palaeogene period, 52-51 million years ago. At this time southern England was located approximately 40°N of the equator, 10°S of its present latitude, comparable to Spain today.
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  • A scene of a distant felucca sailing boat on the River Nile at Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Feluccas are ancient Egyptian sail boats which were used in ancient times as a primary mode of transport and are the only type of boat that is still used extensively in the country. Plying this great African river is a cheap fare state-run ferry used by commuters and locals but these sailing boats serve tourists and therefore are the many victims of the tourism downturn. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
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  • A scene of a distant felucca sailing boat on the River Nile at Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Feluccas are ancient Egyptian sail boats which were used in ancient times as a primary mode of transport and are the only type of boat that is still used extensively in the country. Plying this great African river is a cheap fare state-run ferry used by commuters and locals but these sailing boats serve tourists and therefore are the many victims of the tourism downturn. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
    egypt128-02-03-2016_1.jpg
  • A wheelchair user moves between 2nd century Roman copies from Greek originals of Demeter holding a torch L and Gannymede with the eagle of Zeus R, in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Classical literature on bookshelves in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A visitor uses his phone instead of admiring the sculpture of Rondaninis Faun - a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original - in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A detail from an ancient Assyrian stone carving 865-860BCdepicting an attack on an enemy town by a river, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A detail from a stone carving depicting the royal lion hunt of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, at the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England. It is part of the palace at Nineveh and dates to about 645-635 BC. Captured lions, which had been a menace to domestic animals as well as to men, were released one-by-one from cages into an arena surrounded by dogs and soldiers with tall shields to keep any from escaping. They then were shot by the king from his chariot.
    british_museum-29-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A detail of one ancient Assyrian stone panel carving 700-692BC showing archers attacking the town of Lachish near Jerusalem, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England. The relief was created for the walls of the great palace of the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, in Nineveh. Such scenes demonstrated the consequences of rebelling against the Assyrian empire. Sennacherib is shown as an invincible king presiding over a perfect victory.
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  • A visitor takes a picture of the heads of ancient Greek Hellenistic philosophers L-R: Sokrates, Antisthenes, Chrysippus and Epikouros, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors admire the ancient Egyptian Rosetta Stone in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors admire the ancient Egyptian Rosetta Stone in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A 1st or 2nd century Roman statue of Venus discovered by painter and dealer Gavin Hamilton at Ostia in 1775, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • A visitor walks around the Parthenon Elgin Marbles in Room 18 of the British Museum, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • The bust of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • The church of St Marys in the Northumbrian village of Blanchland, on 29th September 2017, in Blanchland, Northumberland, England. St. Marys is on the site of the former Abbey and the village got its name from the white habits worn by monks of the Premonstratensian order who founded Blanchland Abbey. Built in the 13th century, the abbey survived until the 16th century when it fell into ruin. Parts of the Abbey survive including St. Marys Church, which was rebuilt in 1751-52. Blanchland is a village in Northumberland, England, on the County Durham boundary. It is a conservation village, largely built of stone from the remains of the 12th-century Abbey. It features picturesque houses, set against a backdrop of deep woods and open moors. Set beside the river in a wooded section of the Derwent valley, Blanchland is an attractive small village in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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  • A small boy climbs up the gradient of the outer ditch that surrounds Avebury, the ancient site in southern England. The Avebury complex is one of the principal ceremonial sites of Neolithic Britain that we can visit today. It was built and altered over many centuries from about 2850 BC until about 2200 BC and is one of the largest, and undoubtedly the most complex, of Britain's surviving Neolithic henge monuments. There were originally 98 sarsen standing stones, some weighing in excess of 40 tons and varied in height from 3.6 to 4.2. Avebury is designated a World Heritage Site. Entrance is free.
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  • Above a statue of the ancient Greek God Apollo, a contract window cleaner wipes window glass of Osprey in Lower Regent Street, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
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  • Featuring paraphenalia of local fishing industry, the interior of St. Marys church on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-35-27-09-2017.jpg
  • White plaster or cement Goddess statuettes stand on sale on the forecourt of a garden art business in an Athens suberb, Marathonas Avenue - the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The mostly female figurines are in various poses but are all nudes and are in various gestures of a classical heroic style. Those in the foreground have their arms at the heads and moulded breasts and bodies to show the perfect female form while further to the back are male Gods placed on plinths and in recesses. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery.
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  • Standing in the corner of a brightly sun-lit window, a classical reproduction bust is seen in a hotel foyer in the modern town of Olympia, the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal. Amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad002-20-10_2003_1.jpg
  • Visitors to the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum do selfies under Discoblus, the 2nd century AD Roman copy of Myrons 450-440BC original sculpture, on 28th February 2017, in London, England. It was discovered, minus its original head, in 1791 in Hadrians villa at Tivoli, near Rome.
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  • Visitors to the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum  admire Discoblus, the 2nd century AD Roman copy of Myrons 450-440BC original sculpture, on 28th February 2017, in London, England. It was discovered, minus its original head, in 1791 in Hadrians villa at Tivoli, near Rome.
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  • A 1st or 2nd century Roman statue of Venus discovered by painter and dealer Gavin Hamilton at Ostia in 1775, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • City Hall in the modern city of London and the ancient temple Teotihuacan in Mexico. The giant ad for Mexican tourism is a riverside poster by the offices of London's mayor. The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, laid out on geometric and symbolic principles. As one of the most powerful cultural centres in Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan extended its cultural and artistic influence throughout the region, and even beyond.
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  • City Hall in the modern city of London and the ancient temple Teotihuacan in Mexico. The giant ad for Mexican tourism is a riverside poster by the offices of London's mayor. The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, laid out on geometric and symbolic principles. As one of the most powerful cultural centres in Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan extended its cultural and artistic influence throughout the region, and even beyond.
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  • A crewman of a felucca steers his sailing boat while sailing on the River Nile at Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Feluccas are ancient Egyptian sail boats which were used in ancient times as a primary mode of transport and are the only type of boat that is still used extensively in the country. Plying this great African river is a cheap fare state-run ferry used by commuters and locals but these sailing boats serve tourists and therefore are the many victims of the tourism downturn. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
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  • An exterior of St. John the Baptist Church in Edlingham with its fortified belfry to repel cross-border rievers, on 28th September 2017, Northumberland, England. St. John the Baptist Church is a Mediaeval 11th century Church in Edlingham, Alnwick, Northumberland, England. The church is mostly Norman, from two periods, the late 11th - early 12th Century and late 12th century. The church is adjacent to Edlingham Castle, a 13th-century castle with 16th-century battlements and defences.
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  • A sculpture of Cupid, a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original, in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors admire the sculpture of Rondaninis Faun - a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original - in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A detail from a stone carving depicting the royal lion hunt of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, at the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England. It is part of the palace at Nineveh and dates to about 645-635 BC. Captured lions, which had been a menace to domestic animals as well as to men, were released one-by-one from cages into an arena surrounded by dogs and soldiers with tall shields to keep any from escaping. They then were shot by the king from his chariot.
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  • The church of St Marys in the Northumbrian village of Blanchland, on 29th September 2017, in Blanchland, Northumberland, England. St. Marys is on the site of the former Abbey and the village got its name from the white habits worn by monks of the Premonstratensian order who founded Blanchland Abbey. Built in the 13th century, the abbey survived until the 16th century when it fell into ruin. Parts of the Abbey survive including St. Marys Church, which was rebuilt in 1751-52. Blanchland is a village in Northumberland, England, on the County Durham boundary. It is a conservation village, largely built of stone from the remains of the 12th-century Abbey. It features picturesque houses, set against a backdrop of deep woods and open moors. Set beside the river in a wooded section of the Derwent valley, Blanchland is an attractive small village in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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  • City Hall in the modern city of London and the ancient temple Teotihuacan in Mexico. The giant ad for Mexican tourism is a riverside poster by the offices of London's mayor. The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, laid out on geometric and symbolic principles. As one of the most powerful cultural centres in Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan extended its cultural and artistic influence throughout the region, and even beyond.
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  • A ruined sandstone wall of the early 12th century Lindisfarne Priory, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, and the priory was founded before the end of 634 and Aidan remained there until his death in 651. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • Fake classical Greek statues stand outside a night club in Nafplio, a former Byzantines, Frank, Venetian, and Ottoman coastal Peloponnese port town of 14,000 on the Argolic Gulf. The walls of this modern building seen near wasteland on the outskirts of town are made to look authentic but result in a false tourist style. There are three pieces of fake art that stand on well-watered grass: One of a nude Greek Goddess, a miniature lion in the middle and nearest the viewer is a naked figure of a man - muscular and classically posed as a heroic and mythical figure. Nafplio was also the first capital of independent Greece which was  destroyed in the 7th Century for its alliance with Sparta. This contemporary landscape is therefore bears no resemblance to its heritage.
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  • A detail of the 2nd century Roman copy from Greek original of Demeter holding a torch, in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • 2nd century Roman copies from Greek originals of Demeter holding a torch L and Gannymede with the eagle of Zeus R, in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A detail of one ancient Assyrian stone panel carving 700-692BC showing archers attacking the town of Lachish near Jerusalem, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England. The relief was created for the walls of the great palace of the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, in Nineveh. Such scenes demonstrated the consequences of rebelling against the Assyrian empire. Sennacherib is shown as an invincible king presiding over a perfect victory.
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  • Visitors admire the Greek Three Nereids 390-380BC in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors admire the sculpture of the ancient Greek Parthenons Elgin Marbles Metopes in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A visitor admires the sculpture of the ancient Greek Parthenons Elgin Marbles Metopes in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • The bust of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Fish River Canyon. The Fish River rises in the hills to the north and only flows sporadically, but over the millennia it has carved an enormous canyon 500 metres deep into the unstable surface of Namibia, to form the second deepest canyon in the world. The walls of the canyon are an object lesson in geology: every layer for the last 1000 million years is clearly visible.
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  • Fish River Canyon. The Fish River rises in the hills to the north and only flows sporadically, but over the millennia it has carved an enormous canyon 500 metres deep into the unstable surface of Namibia, to form the second deepest canyon in the world. The walls of the canyon are an object lesson in geology: every layer for the last 1000 million years is clearly visible.
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  • The imagery of the great outdoors against the urban environment seen through a shop window in central London. In the foreground is a large image of snow-covered mountain peaks in the Alps or another range of geological tops formed over millennia - bare branches below the tree line also making their presence. Above them in an incongruous landscape of nature versus nature are buildings along Bond Street, a fashionable fashion and art area. We see the edifices of a man-made society and architecture and the rawness and beauty of the natural world together in one framed window. Man's achievements within the urban city seen in context with the forces of a natural, uncontrollable environment that we as humans are powerless to harness.
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  • Fish River Canyon. The Fish River rises in the hills to the north and only flows sporadically, but over the millennia it has carved an enormous canyon 500 metres deep into the unstable surface of Namibia, to form the second deepest canyon in the world. The walls of the canyon are an object lesson in geology: every layer for the last 1000 million years is clearly visible.
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