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Kasserine Pass

  • The Kasserine Pass is a 2 mile (3.2km) long Pass through the Atlas Mountains, which controls the road to Constantine (Cirta) in Algeria.
  • A major Battle was fought here in WWII between the Allied Army and the German Army.

Kasserine

  • Kasserine in Tunisia was the Roman city of Cillium or Cillilana, which was located in the Roman Province of Africa Proconsularis.
  • The Ruins of Cillium include a Basilica, Baths, Theatre, Triumphal Arches and Mausoleums.

Kasserine Dam

  • This was a 2nd century CE Roman Gravity Arch Dam that provided water for Cillium.

Lyonesse

  • Lyonesse is a Lost Kingdom which, according to the Cornish Legends of King Arthur and Tristan and Iseult, disappeared below the waves in one night.
  • It was a peninsular that ran from Land’s End in Cornwall to the Scilly Isles. The legend of a sunken kingdom also exists in Breton mythology as the lost city of Ys.

The Saxon Chronicle

  • According to the Saxon Chronicle, Lyonesse submerged in 1099 CE.

 

 

Lyonesse

Gates of Alexander

  • The Gates of Alexander, also known as the Caspian Gates, is a Mountain Pass in the Caucasus.
  • It refers either to the 8 mile (13km) Darial Gorge on the river Terek, or to the Pass of Derbent, a city in Russia which controls the most eastern Pass in the Caucasus. It is also linked to the Great Wall of Gorgan on the southeastern part of the Caspian Sea.

 

Darial Gorge, Georgia

Meroe

  • Meroe was the second Capital of the Kingdom of Kush (1000 BCE – 350 CE), also known as Nubia to the Ancient Egyptians.
  • It was located in modern Sudan near the Sixth Cataract on the Nile.

Kush

  • The border between the Kingdom of Kush and Egypt was at the First Cataract.
  • Between 721-664 BCE, Kush ruled all of Ancient Egypt, and became the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Pharaohs.
  • However, in 664 BCE, they were repulsed by an invasion from Assyria.
  • After the fourth century CE, Kush was known as Nubia.

Pyramids of Napata and Meroe

  • The first Capital of Kush was Napata, where the 20 Nuri Pyramids are located.
  • The second Capital was at Meroe, where 200 Pyramids were built.
  • Both cities are beside the river Nile.
  • The 20 Pyramids of Napata were constructed during the 25th Dynasty.
  • Over 200 Pyramids were constructed at Meroe.
  • Altogether, 255 Pyramids were built at three sites of el-Kurru, Nuri and Meroe.

 

The Island of Meroe, Sudan

 

Osijek

  • Osijek is a city on the river Drava in the Osijek-Baranja County in Croatia.
  • It was the Roman city of Mursa was located in the Province of Pannonia Inferior. Mursa was the Base for the Roman Fleet on the Upper Danube, the Classis Pannonica.

History

Museums

  • Osijek Archeological Museum
    • Located at Tvrda, Osijek.
    • The museum holds a collection of Roman stone monuments and other Roman artefacts excavated from fort of Mursa.

 

Osijek

Mesopotamian Marshes

  • The Mesopotamian Marshes, also known as the Iraqi Marshes, is a group of Marshes located near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates in southern Iraq. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • The two Rivers run into an enormous alluvial Plain of Lagoons, Marshes, Reed banks and Mud flats. Eventually the two Rivers unite and run into the Persian Gulf.

 

Mesopotamian Marshes, Iraq

Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as the Met, is an Art Museum located on 5th Avenue, in Central Park, New York, USA.
  • It holds a permanent collection of over 2,000,000 works grouped into 17 departments. The Department of Greek and Roman Art holds over 17,000 works. Noted works are the Amathus Sarcophagus and the Monteleone chariot.

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Aqueduct du Gier

  • The Aqueduct du Gier, was a Roman Aqueduct in Gallia Lugdunensis, which brought water 26 miles (42 km) to Lyon.
  • It used four Inverted Siphons and eleven tunnels and was completed in c. 50 CE.

Inverted Siphon

  • Instead of building bridges across the river valleys, the aqueduct used four inverted siphons to cross the valleys of the rivers Dureze, Garon, Yzeron and Trion.
  • The water would enter a water tank in a sunken Castellum or tower before flowing through pipelines that descended to the valley floor.
  • The pipes then crossed over each river on arches and rose up the other side to another water tower that was slightly lower than the first tank.

 

Aqueduc du Gier