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The "Red Basilica" (Turkish: Kızıl Avlu), also called variously the Red Hall and Red Courtyard, is a monumental ruined temple in the ancient city of Pergamon, now Bergama, in western Turkey. The temple was built during the Roman Empire, probably in the time of Hadrian and possibly on his orders.
Viewed from the north. Wat Phrachao Ong Dam viewed from the south. Local info about two temples, Wat Phrachao Ong Dam and Wat Phaya Mangrai. Wat Phrachao Ong Dam (Thai: วัดพระเจ้าองค์ดำ; "Temple of the Black-Bodied Lord") is a ruined temple that is part of the Wiang Kum Kam archaeological site which is located just outside the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai in ...
The Takamiya temple ruins are located on at the southern end of the Kori hill, which extends southwest from the Ikoma Mountains.The existence of an ancient temple ruin within the precincts of the Takamiya Omori Goso Jinja has been known since at least the Edo period, with a cornerstone of the vanished temple's West Pagoda located between the shrine's Haiden and Honden, and the foundations of ...
En no Gyōja holding a khakkhara, Japan, Kamakura period, polychromed wood. A khakkhara (Sanskrit: खक्खर; Tibetan: འཁར་གསིལ, THL: khar sil; Chinese: 錫杖; pinyin: xīzhàng; Japanese pronunciation: shakujō; Korean: 석장; romaja: seokjang; Vietnamese: tích trượng; lit. 'tin stick'), sometimes referred to in English as a pewter staff, [1] [2] is a staff topped ...
This is a list of State Protected Monuments as officially reported by and available through the website of the Archaeological Survey of India in the Indian state Kerala. [1] [2] The monument identifier is a combination of the abbreviation of the subdivision of the list (state, ASI circle) and the numbering as published on the website of the ASI. 116 Kerala State Protected Monuments have been ...
The Kōriyama ruins (郡山遺跡, Kōriyama iseki) is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Nara period government office complex, temple and temple ruins located in what is now part of Taihaku-ku in the city of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture in the southern Tōhoku region of northern Honshu, Japan.
Panorama of the ruins taken in August, 2014. Wat Nan Chang (Thai: วัดหนานช้าง; "Nan Chang's Temple") is a ruined 16th or 17th century temple in the Wiang Kum Kam archaeological complex near modern Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.
The term First Temple is customarily used to describe the Temple of the pre-exilic period, which is thought to have been destroyed by the Babylonian conquest. It is described in the Bible as having been built by King Solomon and is understood to have been constructed with its Holy of Holies centered on a stone hilltop now known as the Foundation Stone which had been a traditional focus of ...