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Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-05-2013
Quote:I had never seen these watercolours, but I am glad I have now -- they are wonderful.Yes, they are!
Quiz - D B Campbell - 01-05-2013
Quote:Over to you, Duncan :-DI must insist on passing this one over to Jona -- I would never have thought of Hallstatt.
Quiz - Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-05-2013
I thought I had seen these posted on RAT once before...but had no idea where they were from!
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-06-2013
Quote:I must insist on passing this one over to Jona -- I would never have thought of Hallstatt.That's very gentlemanlike, so I will reply with a VERY easy question. This is a place in Lebanon. Bronze Age walls to the left, remains of a Crusader tower near the harbor, in the background. Where can this be? And which famous ancient visitor had to wait on this very spot for a month?
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Quiz - Athena Areias - 01-07-2013
I'll guess Ancient Tyre with an impatient Alexander the Great on the shore.
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-07-2013
Quote:I'll guess Ancient Tyre with an impatient Alexander the Great on the shore.No, Tyre, today, looks like this. The new photo was taken about hundred kilometers to the north.
Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-07-2013
Oh damn... not Tyre but... Antioch maybe?
Sidon?
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-07-2013
Quote:Oh damn... not Tyre but... Antioch maybe?Somewhere in between. Sidon is 35 km north of Tyre; Antioch 350.
Sidon?
Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-07-2013
Byblos?
Maybe Arados?
Quiz - D B Campbell - 01-07-2013
Quote:The new photo was taken about hundred kilometers to the north.... which would be round about Beirut (ancient Berytus)? I suppose Titus must have hung around here in November AD 70 before returning to Rome in triumph. But I have a nagging feeling that he is not the person you mean. :unsure:
Quiz - Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-07-2013
Byblos is about 100 km north...
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-08-2013
Quote:Byblos is about 100 km north...Yup, it's Byblos. The famous visitor was Wen Amun, who wrote one of the most interesting texts from ancient Egypt.
Over to you Byron.
Quiz - Nathan Ross - 01-08-2013
Didn't Evan mention Byblos about three posts back?
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-08-2013
Quote:Didn't Evan mention Byblos about three posts back?Yes. Sorry Byron. (Possible explanation: I have a fever.)
Over to you Evan!
Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-09-2013
Wohoo Finally, now i have to come up with an obscure archaeological site! Give me a little bit...
EDIT:
This one isn't obscure, but the best i can do.
Here's a hint: I like walls.
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