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#496
01-05-2013, 06:10 PM
Quote:I had never seen these watercolours, but I am glad I have now -- they are wonderful.
Yes, they are!
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#497
01-05-2013, 09:57 PM
Quote:Over to you, Duncan :-D
I must insist on passing this one over to Jona -- I would never have thought of Hallstatt.
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#498
01-05-2013, 10:22 PM
I thought I had seen these posted on RAT once before...but had no idea where they were from!
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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#499
01-06-2013, 12:27 AM
Quote:I must insist on passing this one over to Jona -- I would never have thought of Hallstatt.
That's very gentlemanlike, so I will reply with a VERY easy question. This is a place in Lebanon. Bronze Age walls to the left, remains of a Crusader tower near the harbor, in the background. Where can this be? And which famous ancient visitor had to wait on this very spot for a month?

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#500
01-07-2013, 12:28 AM
I'll guess Ancient Tyre with an impatient Alexander the Great on the shore.
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#501
01-07-2013, 12:43 AM
Quote:I'll guess Ancient Tyre with an impatient Alexander the Great on the shore.
No, Tyre, today, looks like this. The new photo was taken about hundred kilometers to the north.
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#502
01-07-2013, 03:07 AM
Oh damn... not Tyre but... Antioch maybe?

Sidon?
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#503
01-07-2013, 04:51 AM
Quote:Oh damn... not Tyre but... Antioch maybe?

Sidon?
Somewhere in between. Sidon is 35 km north of Tyre; Antioch 350.
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#504
01-07-2013, 05:56 PM
Byblos?

Maybe Arados?
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#505
01-07-2013, 06:37 PM
Quote:The new photo was taken about hundred kilometers to the north.
... which would be round about Beirut (ancient Berytus)? I suppose Titus must have hung around here in November AD 70 before returning to Rome in triumph. But I have a nagging feeling that he is not the person you mean. :unsure:
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01-07-2013, 07:25 PM
Byblos is about 100 km north...
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#507
01-08-2013, 12:29 AM
Quote:Byblos is about 100 km north...
Yup, it's Byblos. The famous visitor was Wen Amun, who wrote one of the most interesting texts from ancient Egypt.

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#508
01-08-2013, 01:01 AM
Didn't Evan mention Byblos about three posts back?
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#509
01-08-2013, 03:21 AM
Quote:Didn't Evan mention Byblos about three posts back?
Yes. Sorry Byron. (Possible explanation: I have a fever.)

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#510
01-09-2013, 12:29 AM
Wohoo Finally, now i have to come up with an obscure archaeological site! Give me a little bit...


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This one isn't obscure, but the best i can do.

Here's a hint: I like walls.

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