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The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk [citation needed] and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, Egypt. It was studied in detail by Reginald Engelbach in 1922. [1] The unfinished obelisk in its quarry at Aswan, 1990
Great amounts of granite were quarried from Aswan at an extent only comparable to ancient Egypt's limestone and sandstone quarries. [13] The quarry sites were active in the Old Kingdom through the Late Period, and continued to be active in the Greco-Roman period of Egypt. [1] In the present days, the quarry area is to become an open-air museum ...
Historical Society of Long Beach Museum Long Beach: Los Angeles Harbor Region: Local history [16] Huntington Library: San Marino: San Gabriel Valley: Multiple: Library, art collection, historic Beaux-Art mansion and botanical gardens Hurst Ranch Historical Center West Covina: San Gabriel Valley: Agriculture
Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial: Various: Firefighting: Old Fire Station 27 is located on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, history of the department, antique equipment and fire engines; Old Fire Station 36 is located in San Pedro, also called the Harbor Museum Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum: Griffith Park: Railroad
California art from the impressionist period 1890–1930 to contemporary works. Major collections are the Irvine Museum collection and the Buck Collection Kawasaki Museum: Lake Forest: Motorcycles: Laguna Art Museum: Laguna Beach: Art: California art Los Alamitos Museum: Los Alamitos: Local history: Lyon Air Museum: Santa Ana: Aerospace
The Nubian Museum. The Nubian Museum (officially the International Museum of Nubia) is an archaeological museum located in Aswan, Upper Egypt.It was built following the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, to a design by architect Mahmoud El-Hakim for an estimated construction cost of E£75 million (approximately US$22 million at the time).
Los Angeles soon will be home to the fifth Sloomoo Institute in the U.S. — an outpost on Fairfax Avenue across from the Original Farmers Market opens this summer. ... L.A. ticket prices haven't ...
The Getty Villa is an educational center and an art museum located at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. [2] One of two campuses of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Villa is dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria.