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The phallic symbol known as the Maypole, which is decorated with long strands of ribbon that participants would hold onto as they dance, evolved from the Celtic Beltane rituals.

5,000-year-old megalithic cairn in the Boyne Valley, Ireland.

The Agora of Iassos, reconstructed mainly during Hadrian’s time, its initial building must have started in the 4th century BC.

The scaena (stage) of the Bouleuterion of Iassos decorated with opus sectile (marble inlay).

The 45 meter section of the Roman aqueduct of Alinda with 4 remaining arches.

The ruins of the early 2nd century BC theatre, Alinda, Caria, Turkey

The ruins of the Ionic Temple of Apollo Isotimos in Alabanda, built in the 2nd century BC.

The Hellenistic theatre of Alabanda, located on a natural south-facing hillside. The theatre could hold 6,000 spectators in its early phase. In the Imperial period, gladiator and animal combats were increasingly...

The Late Hellenitic Bouleulerion (concil house) of Alabanda. The interior of the building has a rectangular plan measuring 36×36 meters.

Temple of Zeus Lepsynos at Euromos, built in the 2nd century AD on the site of an earlier Carian temple.