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The colonnaded street of Petra (Jordan) marked the centre of the ancient city. A double row of columns lined the 6m-wide carriageway, and covered porticoes gave access to commercial shops on its south side. At the end of the colonnaded street...

Qasr al-Bint, one of the main temples in the Nabataean city of Petra (Jordan). It is located to the northwest of the Great Temple and is one of the best-preserved ancient structures surviving in Petra today. It was probably the cult centre...

Limestone bust of Zeus-Dushara from the courtyard enclosure of the Qasr al-Bint in the Nabataean city of Petra (Jordan). Dushara, the chief deity of Petra and the head of the Nabataean pantheon, was identified with the Greek god Zeus. This...

One of the capitals of the 120 columns on the Lower Temenos of the Great Temple of Petra (Jordan). They were all decorated with heads of Asian elephants and are dated to the 1st century BCE or early 1st century CE.

Frontal view of the Great Temple, a grand monumental complex that lies south of the colonnaded street at Petra (Jordan). The Great Temple is a rectangular complex with a Lower and an Upper Temenos. The Lower Temenos (sacred courtyard) was...

The Temenos Gate in Petra (Jordan) is a monumental triple-arched gate erected at the western end of the colonnaded street. It marked the access to the sacred open precinct of the Qasr Al Bint. The 17-meter-high Temenos Gate originally had...

The so-called Renaissance Tomb, located in the Wadi Farasa in Petra (Jordan), has an elegant façade evoking elements of Italian Renaissance architecture, hence its name. The tomb façade consists of a triangular pediment resting on an entablature...

The leaning menhir known as the "Old Man of Gugh" is 2.4 metres / 8 feet tall and stands on a ridge on the small island of Gugh in the Isles of Scilly, UK. The archaeologist George Bonsor dug around the base of the menhir in 1900 but did...

This entrance grave known as Obadiah's Barrow is found on the small island of Gugh in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Across its cairn there is a chamber with coursed walls and four out of six original capstones remaining, although some...

This burial mound is found on the island of St. Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. This cairn is well-preserved with a substantial mound, a stone berk, and an intact inner chamber. Its precise date of construction is still unknown, was likely...