- Newgrange, Ireland - 5000
years old grave chamber
- Orange, France: finest Roman theatre existing, etc,
photo
- Pont du Garde, France: Roman aqueduct
- Segovia, Spain: preserved Roman aqueduct, 700 m long,
night photo,
day photo
- Athens: Acropolis - with
Parthenon & Erektum, 5th c BC. Parthenon was damaged by an explosion in 1687. A full-scale replica is located in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
photo
- Vienne, France: intact Roman temple, Roman theatre, Roman ruins
- Rome: Forum Romanum, Colosseum, Pantheon, photo
Colosseum, photo Villa Hadrianus,
photo Pantheon
- - Stonehenge, England - 3000 BC
- - Knossos, Crete -
Remains of the palace with the Minotaur, museum, ca 1500 BC. Excavated by Sir Arthur Evans
(1851-1941) in 1900. photo
- - Efesos, Turkey: Greek & Roman ruins
- Giza / Saqqara, north Egypt: pyramids, sphinx,
Cheops' boat,
photo Giza, photo Saqqara
- Thebe and Karnak, present
Luxor in south Egypt: temple and graves in eg Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens. In 1995
queen Nefertai' s grave opened for public, but in 2003 it had to close again since the paintings
deteriorated, photo Luxor
temple, photo Karnak
- Chinese Wall - 6000 km long, built ca 200 BC - 1300 AD
photo
- Sian / Xian, China: royal terracotta graves, ca 210 BC,
photo
Per Åkesson 1994, revised
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