Past and Present: Toyota Building, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Past The earliest nomadic herders once called Dubai and its surrounds home during ancient times. It was here that theseContinue Reading
Category: Monuments and Sites
Mont Ventoux, the Giant of Provence.
This is the incredibly beautiful Mont Ventoux. It peaks at 1,912 metres and is known as the Giant of Provence.Continue Reading
Past and Present: The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas.
Past The site of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio helped give birth to Texas. Originally it was known asContinue Reading
The Queen of Cities – Constantinople – like you have never seen her before.
Have you ever wondered what the queen of cities – Constantinople – might have looked like? Today traces of theContinue Reading
Past and Present: Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, Australia.
Past In the 1920’s Flinders Street Station claimed to be the world’s busiest train station. To be able to boast such aContinue Reading
The Aqueduct of Valens.
In modern Istanbul, standing impressively over the traffic on the busy Atatürk Bulvarı is the Aqueduct of Valens. (Today itContinue Reading
Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia.
Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia.Continue Reading
The sixth century Basilica Cistern.
One of the most amazing sights or structures in Istanbul today lies beneath our feet. In the subterranean depths belowContinue Reading
Past and Present: The Ortakoy Mosque, Istanbul.
Past Life on the Bosphorus, as we know it today, with its bustling urban centres, was non-existent during the Roman/ByzantineContinue Reading
Past and Present: The Grand Place, Mons, Belgium.
Past The Belgian site of Mons has a long and illustrious past going back to Neolithic times. The Romans underContinue Reading
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