THE ANCIENT CITIES

Africa, Tunisia. The Bardo Museum, originally a 13th century Hafside palace, located in the suburbs of the Tunis's capital of the same name. The collection of Roman mosaics in the Bardo museum is considered to be one of the best in the world. Here you can see one of such exhibits. It was floor or ceiling of some ancient Roman building. These images were taken by Gennady Zakharov. We would like to thank him.

Whole mosaic

The element of mosaic

Again Tunisia. This time the Carthage National Museum, located at the hill of Byrsa in the heart of the city of Carthage. Below you can see some other exemplars of Roman mosaics. These images were taken by Gennady Zakharov too. We would like to thank him again.

Now we are in Portugal. This is Conímbriga - one of the largest Roman settlements within the territory of modern Portugal, that classified now as a National Monument. So feast eyes with the heritage of the Roman Empire again. We would like to thank Gennady Zakharov for these photos.

This is the roof of the Senso-ji Buddhist temple, that located in the Tokyo's Asakusa district. This image was taken by Jaq D. Hawkins. We would like to thank her.

Samarkand, Uzbekistan. This is a true ancient city, but here we present stuff from XV century only. Well, on the inside walls of Gur-Emir Mausoleum (1404) and over the main entrance of the Ulugbek madrasah (1420, madrasah or medrese is a secondary Moslem religious school) you can find swastikas. Here should be taken into account that the grave of Timur (Tamerlan) is situated in Gur-Emir Mausoleum and Ulugbeck, an astronomer and mathematician, was Timur's grandson. These images were taken by Gennady Zakharov. We would like to thank him again.

Gur-Emir Mausoleum

Mausoleum inside

Fragment of the wall

The Ulugbeck medrese

Swastika over the main entrance

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