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Labraunda (Ancient Greek: Λάβρανδα Labranda or Λάβραυνδα Labraunda) is an ancient archaeological site five kilometers west of Ortaköy, Muğla Province, Turkey, in the mountains near the coast of Caria. In ancient times, it was held sacred by Carians and Mysians alike.
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Map showing the ancient kingdoms of Cyprus. In Cyprus, all the kingdoms had revolted except that of Amathus. The leader of the Cypriot revolt was Onesilus, brother of the king of Salamis, Gorgus. Gorgus did not want to revolt, so Onesilus locked his brother out of the city and made himself king.
Acroterion with Temple of Zeus in the background. The Temple of Zeus, situated upon a hill, was the city's main sanctuary. Ceramic finds indicate local habitation from the first half of the third millennium BC. According to a recent reading of the inscription on the eastern architrave, the temple was dedicated during the reign of Domitian, in ...
English: Labraunda, the name of the picture seems wrong, as the excavators' site indicates "It is not known whose tomb this was. On the other hand its plan and architectural organization relates it clearly to the Hekatomnid type of Mausolea and it would not be surprizing if this structure was built by and for a member of this family."
Psychro Cave (Greek: Σπήλαιο Ψυχρού) is an ancient Minoan sacred cave in Lasithi plateau in the Lasithi district of eastern Crete.Psychro is associated with the Diktaean Cave (Greek: Δικταῖον Ἄντρον; Diktaion Antron), one of the putative sites of the birth of Zeus.
The apodyterium near the stadion Temple of Zeus. In Greek mythology, Nemea was ruled by king Lycurgus and queen Eurydice. Nemea was famous in Greek myth as the home of the Nemean Lion, which was killed by the hero Heracles, [1] and as the place where the infant Opheltes, lying on a bed of parsley, was killed by a serpent while his nurse Hypsipyle fetched water for the Seven against Thebes on ...
Map of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea; the Heroon is at location 7 The heroon itself is a mound of earth, 100 metres (330 ft) long and 40 metres (130 ft) at its widest. The heroon was likely at the height of its use from the 6th century BCE to the 4th century BCE, but little remains from its earliest stages.