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detail of a Doric temple

Ruins of a Doric temple at Selinus, Sicily

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Pompeii Herculaneum Magna Graecia Capua Alba Longa Ostia Paestum Sybaris Campus Martius Praeneste

Italy

country, Europe

The Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis hill in Athens, Greece, surrounded by ancient stone walls and ruins, with city buildings and a distant hill in the background.

ancient Greek civilization

historical region, Eurasia

Sicily, Italy

Sicily

island, Italy

Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.

Ancient Greece