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  2. Paestum - Wikipedia

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    Paestum (/ ˈ p ɛ s t ə m / PEST-əm, [1] US also / ˈ p iː s t ə m / PEE-stəm, [2] [3] Latin: [ˈpae̯stũː]) was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia. The ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek temples in the Doric order dating from about 550 to 450 BC that are in an ...

  3. Ruins of 2,400-year-old temple — hiding another ancient ...

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    Some disc-like ruins inside the temple found in Paestum. The older, 2,500-year-old temple was somehow destroyed, and its building materials were reused to build a second temple on the same spot ...

  4. Heraion at Foce del Sele - Wikipedia

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    The remains of the sanctuary to Argive Hera at the mouth of the Sele, Heraion at Foce del Sele Early metope sections as displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Dancing maidens from the later group of metope reliefs, c. 510 BC

  5. National Archaeological Museum of Paestum - Wikipedia

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    The National Archaeological Museum of Paestum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Paestum) is a museum in Capaccio-Paestum (Salerno, southern Italy) that houses archaeological finds from excavations of the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia/Paistom, then Paestum. The museum is one of the major "on-site" museums in Italy.. [1]

  6. Second Temple of Hera (Paestum) - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Hera II (also erroneously called the Temple of Neptune or of Poseidon), is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia in Paestum, Campania, Italy.It was built in the Doric order around 460–450 BC, just north of the first Hera Temple of around 550–525 BC.

  7. First Temple of Hera (Paestum) - Wikipedia

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    The First Temple of Hera (Paestum)—also known as Temple of Hera I and the Basilica—is an archaic Doric order Greek temple in the ruins of the ancient city of Paestum, Italy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This Doric temple is considered one of the oldest Greek temples in Italy and is known for its distinctive architectural features.

  8. Gault (archaeological site) - Wikipedia

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    Henry Gault, from whom the site takes its name, put together a 250-acre farm in the Buttermilk Creek Valley, starting in 1904. At some point in the early 20th century he found extra income as an informant for early archaeological explorations in Central Texas working with the first professional archaeologist in Texas, J.E. Pearce, as well as avocational archaeologists (Alex Dienst, Kenneth ...

  9. Temple of Athena (Paestum) - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Athena is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia found at Paestum, in Capaccio Paestum, a comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It was built around 500 BC and was for some time incorrectly thought to have been dedicated to Ceres , [ 1 ] but as a result of the recovery of numerous statuettes in ...