Photos of Civilizations

Post here your favourite civilizations' monuments. Monuments which belong to specific ciilizations and own their features.

For example Ottoman Civilization, Roman Civilization, Chinese Civilization, Seljuk Civilization, Greek Civilization etc.

if you gave us some brief info about each picture it would be nice.

This one is the most extreme of our civlization:

Vank Cathedral, this great project was also started by Shah Abbas the Great but was completed about 50 years later by Shah Abbas II.

Originally posted by Iskender Bey ALBO Why are you confused about Ottoman civilization? Havent you seen something like this before? You mean the Byzantine church inspired mosques based off the Hagia Sophia?

What's wrong with that? It was just the esthetic choice of the Ottomans...

Teotihuacan-center of trade and city state power in pre Aztec Mexico:

Aksum stellae from Ethiopia.

Samarkand!

and of course, northeastern US power in the empire state building!

That Samarkand also belongs to our civilization!

World Civlization:

This palace which I built at Susa, from afar its ornamentation was brought. Downward the earth was dug, until I reached rock in the earth. When the excavation had been made, then rubble was packed down, some 40 cubits in depth, another part 20 cubits in depth. On that rubble the palace was constructed.
And that the earth was dug downward, and that the rubble was packed down, and that the sun-dried brick was molded, the Babylonian people performed these tasks.
The cedar timber, this was brought from a mountain named Lebanon. The Assyrian people brought it to Babylon; from Babylon the Carians and the Yaun� [=Greeks] brought it to Susa. The yak�-timber was brought from Gandara and from Carmania.
The gold was brought from Lydia and from Bactria, which here was wrought. The precious stone lapis lazuli and carnelian which was wrought here, this was brought from Sogdia. The precious stone turquoise, this was brought from Chorasmia, which was wrought here.
The silver and the ebony were brought from Egypt. The ornamentation with which the wall was adorned, that from Yaun� was brought. The ivory which was wrought here, was brought from Nubia and from India and from Arachosia.
The stone columns which were here wrought, a village named Abir�du, in Elam - from there were brought. The stone-cutters who wrought the stone, those were Yaun� and Lydians.
The goldsmiths who wrought the gold, those were Medes and Egyptians. The men who wrought the wood, those were Lydians and Egyptians. The men who wrought the baked brick, those were Babylonians. The men who adorned the wall, those were Medes and Egyptians.
Darius the King says: At Susa a very excellent work was ordered, a very excellent work was brought to completion.
May Ahuramazda protect me, my father Hystaspes, and my country.

100 Coulmns, each one as tall as a 10-storey building.

16 of these columns are still standing!

One of these huge columns:

There are various types of column capitals:

The small ones have been moved to the museums.

A bull column capital in the chicago museum (USA):

Another column capital in the same museum:

but the large ones are still there.

An eagle column capital in the Persepolis: (of course not on the column)

I hope you can imagine the size of this palace!

Originally posted by Iskender Bey ALBO Why are you confused about Ottoman civilization? Havent you seen something like this before? You mean the Byzantine church inspired mosques based off the Hagia Sophia?

No. I mean the Ottoman ciilization which was influenced with Roman civilization.

Ok, one the greatest world heritage monuments, the Parthian city of Hatra in Iraq, the masterpiece of both Greek and Persian architecture: