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Segesta, Sicily

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that includes an interactive timeline of Greek art. Clicking on hyperlinks take you to a detailed discussion of the individual works of art. Included are photographs of Greek architecture. A great resource for the study...
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Syracuse, Sicily

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that includes an interactive timeline of Greek art. Clicking on hyperlinks take you to a detailed discussion of the individual works of art. Included are photographs of Greek architecture. A great resource for the study...
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Taormina, Sicily

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that includes an interactive timeline of Greek art. Clicking on hyperlinks take you to a detailed discussion of the individual works of art. Included are photographs of Greek architecture. A great resource for the study...
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Encyclopedia Roma: The Colosseum in Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Encyclopedia Roma gives a history of the Colosseum, built by Vespasian and Titus in 80 AD, also has a nice description plus pictures.
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Encyclopedia Roma: The Colosseum in Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Encyclopedia Roma gives a history of the Colosseum, built by Vespasian and Titus in 80 AD, also has a nice description plus pictures.
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Encyclopedia Roma: The Colosseum in Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Encyclopedia Roma gives a history of the Colosseum, built by Vespasian and Titus in 80 AD, also has a nice description plus pictures.
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Encyclopedia Roma: The Colosseum in Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Encyclopedia Roma gives a history of the Colosseum, built by Vespasian and Titus in 80 AD, also has a nice description plus pictures.
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Mex Connect: Mexican Art, Authors and Artisans

For Students 9th - 10th
The listing of Mexican artists, artisans, authors, and art makes it easy to "pick and choose." Oodles of information here.
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The Classics Pages: The Athenian Agora

For Students 4th - 8th
Clickable map of the Agora of Athens. Provides information about the buildings contained in the Agora area and the location of the Agora in relation to the rest of the city.
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Villa Almerico Capra "La Rotonda"

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful picture of La Rotonda greets you when you open this site. You start to wonder why you're not on a plane to vacation there! Below the picture there is technical data concerning the use of the building and rooms, and why they...
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University at Buffalo

University of Buffalo: Temple of Saturn

For Students 9th - 10th
These photographs, taken in 1966, give a full-scale view of what remains today of the Temple of Saturn. The photographs are full-page and very clear. At this site are views from the 3 Capitolines.
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Blufton College: The Arch of Titus and Reliefs

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Blufton College contains information about the Arch of Titus, it contains several pictures as well as descriptions.
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University of Oxford (UK)

Beazley Archive: Caryatids

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated dictionary entry for caryatids.
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Merriam-Webster

Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Column Base

For Students 9th - 10th
Labeled illustration of the principal parts of a column's base.
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Boston College

Boston College: Doric Column

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is an example of a Doric column for the Temple of Neptune at Paestum.
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Eternal Egypt: Karnak Temple

For Students 9th - 10th
The site of the Karnak Temples is an open natural museum of Ancient Egyptian history. It contains a mixture of the different architectural styles built by the kings who ruled the country from the Twelfth Dynasty until the Greco-Roman times.
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Unesco: Mexico: El Tajin, Pre Hispanic City

For Students 9th - 10th
Located in the state of Veracruz, El Tajin was at its height from the early 9th to the early 13th century. It became the most important centre in north-east Mesoamerica after the fall of the Teotihuacan Empire. Its cultural influence...
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Unesco: Russian Federation: Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings

For Students 9th - 10th
Situated on the ancient trade route between Central Asia and northern Europe, Novgorod was Russia's first capital in the 9th century. Surrounded by churches and monasteries, it was a centre for Orthodox spirituality as well as Russian...
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Unesco: Spain: Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias

For Students 9th - 10th
In the 9th century the flame of Christianity was kept alive in the Iberian peninsula in the tiny Kingdom of the Asturias. Here an innovative pre-Romanesque architectural style was created that was to play a significant role in the...
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Odyssey: Adventures in Archaeology: Egyptian Temples of the New Kingdom

For Students 9th - 10th
An archaeologist-authored introduction to ancient Egyptian architecture that includes many details about specific attributes and characteristic features of Egyptian temple architecture. Explains and illustrates pylons; obelisks; hyostyle...
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Unesco: Iran: Gonbad E Qabus

For Students 9th - 10th
The 53 m high tomb built in ad 1006 for Qabus Ibn Voshmgir, Ziyarid ruler and literati, near the ruins of the ancient city of Jorjan in north-east Iran, bears testimony to the cultural exchange between Central Asian nomads and the...
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Unesco: Russian Federation: Kizhi Pogost

For Students 9th - 10th
The pogost of Kizhi (i.e. the Kizhi enclosure) is located on one of the many islands in Lake Onega, in Karelia. Two 18th-century wooden churches, and an octagonal clock tower, also in wood and built in 1862, can be seen there. These...
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Unesco: Bulgaria: Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari

For Students 9th - 10th
Discovered in 1982 near the village of Sveshtari, this 3rd-century BC Thracian tomb reflects the fundamental structural principles of Thracian cult buildings. The tomb has a unique architectural decor, with polychrome half-human,...
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Unesco: Thailand: Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns

For Students 9th - 10th
Sukhothai was the capital of the first Kingdom of Siam in the 13th and 14th centuries. It has a number of fine monuments, illustrating the beginnings of Thai architecture. The great civilization which evolved in the Kingdom of Sukhothai...

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