Lost Cities
May 5th, 2010The breathtaking city of Petra was a vibrant trading hub that vanished from most maps in the seventh century A.D. It lay beneath a thousand years of dust and debris when, in 1812, a Swiss scholar disguised as a Bedouin trader identified the ruins as the ancient Nabataean capital.
Spread throughout a series of remote desert canyons in southern Jordan, Petra arose more than 2,000 years ago at the crossroads of key caravan trade routes between Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. The Nabataeans carved most of the sprawling city’s buildings, including temples, tombs, and theaters, directly into the region’s towering red sandstone cliffs. Here, a Bedouin walks his camel past Petra’s most famous building, Al Khazneh, or the Treasury
Nimrud and the Assyrian Empire declined rapidly around 612 B.C., after Nimrud’s sister city, Nineveh, fell to the Babylonians.
The ancient city of Persepolis in modern-day Iran was one of four capitals of the sprawling Persian Empire. Built beginning around 520 B.C., the city was a showcase for the empire’s staggering wealth, with grand architecture, extravagant works of silver and gold, and extensive relief sculptures such as this one portraying envoys with offerings for the king.
The height of Persian rule lasted from about 550 B.C. until 330 B.C., when Alexander the Great overthrew the ruling Archaemenid dynasty and burned Persepolis to the ground.
More than 600 cliff dwellings made by the ancestral Pueblo people, also known as the Anasazi, are scattered throughout Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado (shown here).
The Anasazi arrived in the region as early as A.D. 550, building their homes and cultivating crops on the soaring mesa tops. Around 1150, though, they began to move their dwellings to the alcoves within the canyon walls. Most houses were quite small, but a few reached enormous proportions, housing up 250 people.
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Houses for Sale !
May 4th, 2010Houses for Sale !
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Asking: $6,888,000 … 360 degree views 5 levels house 10,000 sqft inside.
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Asking: $1,888,000 … house including the island, total privacy.
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Asking: $1,288,000 … house inside the rock with additional hanging balcony.
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# 4
Asking: $1,388,000 …. 3 levels house … built along the mountain.
(please don’t ask how the car gets there…!)
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Asking: $1,988,000 ….. unique standalone 3 levels house … including hanging ladder.
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Asking $1,288,000 …. tree top penthouse.
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Asking $4,888,0000 … two houses for the price of one … including the tower.
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Asking $1,688,000 … ice cold summer cottage …
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Asking: $1,888,000 … 3 levels house on sol i d rocks!
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Asking: $6,888,000 … 360 degree views 5 levels house 10,000 sqft inside.
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Asking: $1,888,000 … house including the island, total privacy.
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Asking: $1,288,000 … house inside the rock with additional hanging balcony.
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# 4
Asking: $1,388,000 …. 3 levels house … built along the mountain.
(please don’t ask how the car gets there…!)
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Asking: $1,988,000 ….. unique standalone 3 levels house … including hanging ladder.
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Asking $1,288,000 …. tree top penthouse.
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Asking $4,888,0000 … two houses for the price of one … including the tower.
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Asking $1,688,000 … ice cold summer cottage …
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Asking: $1,888,000 … 3 levels house on sol i d rocks!
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Red Crab Island
May 3rd, 2010Christmas Island rainforest
red crabRed crabs begin their march from the forest to the sea, where they will reproduce
During the migration, the island’s human inhabitants just have to adapt.
There are around 120 million crabs on the march
The crabs navigate the same pathways year after year
For the islanders, encounters with crabs during the migration are just part of island life.
Most of the time we just work around the crabs and take them for granted
Red crabs are scavengers
After two weeks of marching, the first wave of crabs reaches the ocean
The weary travellers dip in the ocean to replace body fluids and salts
During the migration, the island’s human inhabitants just have to adapt.
There are around 120 million crabs on the march
The crabs navigate the same pathways year after year
For the islanders, encounters with crabs during the migration are just part of island life.
Most of the time we just work around the crabs and take them for granted
Red crabs are scavengers
After two weeks of marching, the first wave of crabs reaches the ocean
The weary travellers dip in the ocean to replace body fluids and salts
Aerial view of Christmas Island
Crabs pop up in the most unexpected places
A female crab expels eggs from her brood pouch
The eggs hatch immediately on contact with the water
Baby crabs navigate their way into the rainforest … and the ants
Sumber: http://blog.duniapustaka.com/category/amazing-pictures/
Crabs pop up in the most unexpected places
A female crab expels eggs from her brood pouch
The eggs hatch immediately on contact with the water
Sumber: http://blog.duniapustaka.com/category/amazing-pictures/