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Mapping Ancient Athens is a project by a Greek non-profit Dipylon, launched in 2021, that aims to map and provide an interactive digital portal to explore the archaeological remains and historical data from more than 1500 rescue excavations conducted across Athens over the past 160 years. The project created a searchable map interface that ...
Map showing the location of the Kehlsteinhaus (labelled "Eagle's Nest") and Führer Headquarters throughout occupied Europe. The Kehlsteinhaus sits on a ridge atop the Kehlstein, a 1,834 m (6,017 ft) subpeak of the Hoher Göll that rises above the town of Berchtesgaden. It was commissioned by Martin Bormann in the summer of 1937. Paid for by ...
The Cave Sanctuaries of the Acropolis of Athens are the natural fissures in the rock of the Acropolis hill that were used as sites of worship for deities of the Panhellenic pantheon in antiquity. Traditionally a sharp distinction has been drawn between the state religion practised on the summit of the Acropolis and the cult practice of the ...
Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area contains two well-known underwater caves: Buford Springs [3] and Eagle's Nest Sink. Both caves are popular with the cave-diving community and both caves have claimed lives. [4] [5] [3]
The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance ...
Eagle Nest, New Mexico, a village in Colfax County, New Mexico; Eagle Nest camp, an Adirondack Great Camp on Eagle Lake in Blue Mountain Lake, New York; Eagle Nest Canyon or Mile Canyon, a canyon on the Rio Grande near Langtry, Texas; Eagle's Nest, William K. Vanderbilt II's estate in Suffolk County, New York, now the Vanderbilt Museum
Pausanias refers to the monument indirectly, [2] providing us with the information that in the cave there existed a representation of Apollo and Artemis slaughtering the children of Niobe. Echoing the west part of the south wing of the Propylaea , the facade of the monument is formed by two monumental doorways with antae and a central pillar ...
The Peripatos (Ancient Greek: περίπατος, lit. 'walkway') is an ancient pathway that girds the Acropolis in Athens and intersects with the Panathenaic way on the north slope. It connects the shrines that are interspersed around the Acropolis hill.