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Rosemarkie was the probable site of a major Pictish monastery, on the Black Isle of Easter Ross. When found, the stone was broken into two parts that have since been reconstructed. [ 1 ] The reconstructed stone is now on display in Rosemarkie's Groam House Museum .
Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
Kerguelen Plateau, a submerged micro-continent which is now 1–2 kilometres (0.62–1.2 miles) below sea level. Maui Nui, once a large island of the Hawaii archipelago; several major islands represent residual high ground of Maui Nui. Sundaland, the now submerged Sunda Shelf. Viking-Bergen Banks are submerged hills in the North Sea which ...
A new relic is available to build in Treasure Isle, and this one comes in the form of a Ziggurat Relic. This relic is a land-based object, which is actually fairly large, so you may need to ...
Head of a female figure, Keros-Syros culture, Early Cycladic II (2700–2300 BC), Louvre. At the end of the 19th century, following the earlier work of antiquaries such as Theodore Bent on Antiparos in 1884, [10] the Greek archaeologist Christos Tsountas, having assembled various discoveries from numerous islands, suggested that the Cyclades were part of a cultural unit during the 3rd ...
The Wailing Woman rock lies in the centre of the island, on the ascent before the Christ's Saddle ridge, [12] 120 m (400 ft) above sea level, on 1.2 ha (3 acres) of grassland. It is the only flat and fertile part of the island, and thus contains traces of medieval crop farming.
Milos is the southwestern-most island in the Cyclades group. The Venus de Milo (now in the Louvre), the Poseidon of Melos (now in the NAMA) and the Asclepius of Milos (now in the British Museum) were all found on the island, [2] as was an archaic Apollo now in Athens. Milos is a popular tourist destination during the summer.
Highlighted map from 1890s indicating the Arginusae islands (now Garip Islands and Kalem Island). Original map by Heinrich Kiepert (1818–1899) In classical antiquity , the Arginusae ( Ancient Greek : Ἀργινοῦσαι Arginousai ) were three islands off the Dikili Peninsula on the coast of modern-day Turkey , famous as the site of the ...