Ancient cities from above

OakRidge

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Northern California

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• May 13, 2011

• #1

Google has made satellite imagery easily accessible and free to all. In this topic I hope we can post images of ancient ruined cities/fortifications from above.

A few to get us started:

Fort Zenobia

Information link: Zenobia (Halebiye)

Dura-Europos

Information link: Dura-Europos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

OakRidge

Joined Mar 2011

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Northern California

Discussion Starter
• May 13, 2011

• #2

Gholaia

Information link: Gholaia (Bu Njem)

Cyrrhus

Information link: Cyrrhus

 

unclefred

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Oregon coastal mountains

• May 13, 2011

• #3

Caral, in Peru

Caral: the oldest town in the New World

 

okamido

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land of Califia

• May 13, 2011

• #4

Pretty cool guys, keep them coming.

 

Zeno

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♪♬ ♫♪♩

• May 13, 2011

• #5

Keep the pretty cool guys coming Oka?


Moche Picchu

Giza

 

Zeno

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♪♬ ♫♪♩

• May 13, 2011

• #6

Tulum (Maya)

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulum]Tulum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Great Zimbabwe

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe]Great Zimbabwe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

Zeno

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♪♬ ♫♪♩

• May 13, 2011

• #7

Cerro Cephen, Moche fortress.

Delos

Milete

 

Frank81

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Canary Islands-Spain

• May 14, 2011
• Last edited: May 14, 2011

• #8

Last edited: May 14, 2011

I have noticed that ancient Mesopotamia's cities are harder to pick than greco-roman cities.


*Petra

*Palmyra, it's huge, i first centered in the main temples and then saw the wall all around

*Ur: actually very tiny, too close to an airport or military base

Originally

I've tried unsucessfully with Nineveh and Babylon.

 

OakRidge

Joined Mar 2011

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Northern California

Discussion Starter
• May 14, 2011

• #9

It appears that thumbnails do not work with this forum. Here are larger versions of the images I posted above.

Fort Zenobia

Information link: Dura-Europos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dura-Europos

Information link: Dura-Europos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gholaia

Information link: Gholaia (Bu Njem)

Cyrrhus

Information link: Cyrrhus

 

OakRidge

Joined Mar 2011

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Northern California

Discussion Starter
• May 14, 2011

• #10

Vercovicium

Information link: [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housesteads_Roman_Fort]Vercovicium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Coria

Information link: Coria (Corbridge) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vindolanda

Information link: [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindolanda]Vindolanda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Arbeia

Information link: [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeia]Arbeia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

tjadams

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Texas

• May 14, 2011

• #11

Things can always been viewed in a different light from above. Fun

 

Frank81

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Canary Islands-Spain

• May 14, 2011

• #12

Mari, Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As it was

 

Frank81

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Canary Islands-Spain

• May 14, 2011

• #13

Carthage today

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage"]Carthage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] two millenia ago

Well... things not always go to better.

 

Sargon of Akkad

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Glorious England

• May 14, 2011

• #14

I'm loving this thread. Wish we had Nineveh and Babylon though!

 

Isoroku295

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In the Past

• May 14, 2011

• #15

Sargon of Akkad said:

I'm loving this thread. Wish we had Nineveh and Babylon though!

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I agree, this thread is pretty cool I loved the Carthage pic

 

okamido

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land of Califia

• May 14, 2011

• #16

Sargon of Akkad said:

I'm loving this thread. Wish we had Nineveh and Babylon though!

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Above: The ancient city of Nineveh, now surrounded by the modern city of Mosul, Iraq.

Archeological excavations south of Nineveh along the Euphrates.

The above three images are remains of what I believe is the ancient city of Resen mentioned in genesis 10 as a "great city". These constructed works are nothing but impressive.

Above: Abrahams home town of Ur in Southern Iraq. The ziggurat can clearly be seen in the upper/center.

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okamido

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land of Califia

• May 14, 2011

• #17

A closer look of Nineveh

& Ur

Abydos, Egypt

 

Frank81

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Canary Islands-Spain

• May 14, 2011

• #18

OK guys, at last after a hard research i could found Nineveh... you won't believe it but it's fully inside Mosul, in fact is partly settled by the citizens. With nearly 10,000,000 square metres is ten times bigger than Ur


[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineveh"]Nineveh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Edit. Okamido has posted some pictures before me. The satellital one is Nineveh but the aerial view is the Citadel of Arbil.

 

Frank81

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Canary Islands-Spain

• May 14, 2011
• Last edited: May 14, 2011

• #19

Last edited: May 14, 2011

You'll see it with the same scale, Ur to the right, only ligthly bigger than the Nineveh's citadel

 

OakRidge

Joined Mar 2011

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Northern California

Discussion Starter
• May 14, 2011

• #20

okamido said:

A closer look of Nineveh

Click to expand...

That is Arbil I believe.

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbil]Arbil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]