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- Eat a worm.
- Chant “EAT IT! EAT IT! EAT IT!”
- Launch water balloons across the site at the portable toilet when someone was using it.
- Back the work vehicle up against the door of the portable toilet to trap someone inside.
- “Gently” tap the crew vehicle in front of them with the bumper of their vehicle.
- Discreetly vomit in the bushes due to hangover.
- Intentionally run over roadkill while laughing maniacally.
- “Moon” the work camera.
- Topless Day
- Throw a co-worker into the bog of water-screening run-off sludge.
- Flint-knap right next to a test unit.
- Chase one another around with a dildo they found (and then bag it as an “artifact” and send it back to the lab).
- Draw a smiley face on their hardhat in their own blood.
- Write off a shovel probe because there was a horse standing on the spot that wouldn’t move.
- Yell out, “I peed on a snake! :D”
- Have a shovel fight.
ooohhhhh yes…
- Hurriedly lift a square of turf, poo, replace turf, because they were desperate and the portaloo was occupied.
- Sing “We know what you’re doing” every time a guy goes to pee behind a wall.
- Build a throne out of turf sods, spades and shovels on the spoil heap.
- Gently shake the stepladder when someone was trying to take bird’s eye photographs from it.
- Cook enough rice to feed the crew for three days because the person on cooking duty had never cooked rice before and didn’t reliase it expanded.
- Hand a newbie something to hold, then casually mention it’s human bone in an effort to freak them out.
- Throw colleagues into the sea.
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Notes: (4) A Short Cist recently exposed in the Gallows Knowe, Lintrathen, Angus.
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St Fillan’s Church, Forgan, Fife
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#UdayagiriCaves and #KhandagiriCaves, formerly called #KattakaCaves or #CuttackCaves, are partly natural and partly #ArtificialCaves of #archaeological, #historical and religious importance near the city of #Bhubaneswar in #Odisha, India. The #caves are situated on two adjacent hills, #Udayagiri and #Khandagiri mentioned as #KumariParvata in the #Hathigumpha inscription. They have a number of finely and ornately carved caves built during the 1st century BCE. It is believed that most of these caves were carved out as residential blocks for Jaina monks during the reign of King Kharavela. Udayagiri means “Sunrise Hill” and has 18 caves while Khandagiri has 15 caves.
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Yaxha
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⚫It is a Mesoamerican archaeological site and the third largest city in the l the Petén Basin region, Guatemala.
⚫The name of the city derives from the Mayan for “blue-green water”.
⚫The Yaxha kingdom is estimated to have covered an area of 237 square kilometres (92 sq mi) and to have had a peak population of 42,000.
⚫The site has more than 500 structures, including about 40 stelae, 13 Altars, 9 temple pyramids, 2 Mesoamerican ballcourts, and a network of causeways.
⚫The site also contain a twin-pyramid complex which was an architectural innovation of the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.
⚫Twin-pyramid complexes were regularly built to celebrate the end of the 20-year kʼatun cycle of the Maya Long Count Calendar.
⚫A kʼatun is a unit of time in the Maya calendar equal to 7200 days, equivalent to 19.713 tropical years.
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The Terrace of the Lions
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⚫Located in the island of Delos one of the most important mythological, historical, and archaeological sites in Greece.
⚫The lions are faced East towards the Sacred Lake of Delos where it’s believed the greek sun god Apollo had been born.
⚫The original row probably contained 12 stone lions that were built around 600 BCE by the people of Naxos in honor of the god Apollo.
⚫The five remaining lion statues are marble replicas, and the actual figures have been moved to the Archaeological Museum of Delos.
⚫The lions, with their mouths open as if roaring or snarling, were meant to guard the sanctuaries and to inspire a feeling of divine fear among the worshippers.
⚫The way in which they were positioned is similar to the way sphinxes were set up along avenues in ancient Egypt.
⚫Delos was included in the UNESCO World’s Cultural Heritage list of Cultural Landscapes and Archaeological Remains in 1990.
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The golden moment that Tutankhamun’s coffin was discovered in Egypt in 1925
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⚫Inside his giant red stone sarcophagus, which measures nearly 3 metres long and weighs well over a tonne, the wrapped mummy of Tutankhamun was buried in three separate coffins. ⚫The innermost coffin was made of solid gold,weighing 110.04kg.
⚫Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus (a box-like stone container) held not one but three coffins in which to hold the body of the king. ⚫The outer two coffins were crafted in wood and covered in gold along with many semiprecious stones, such as lapis lazuli and turquoise. The inner coffin, however, was made of solid gold.
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Le Castella
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⚫Located in Calabria, Southern Italy.
⚫The mighty fortress sits on ancient foundations that date back to the Magna Graecia (400 BC).
⚫Hannibal, one of Rome’s greatest enemies, took refuge here in the latter years of the Second Punic War (208-202 BC).
⚫The fortress never hosted the nobility of the place but served as a shelter for soldiers engaged against the attacks of invaders from the sea.
⚫The Aragonese Fortress, despite the various damages caused by atmospheric agents and violent storms, preserves an ancient village structure: the majestic cylindrical tower, divided into three floors and connected by a stone spiral staircase; the manor, around which rise defence walls.
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Dunnottar Castle
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⚫It is a ruined medieval fortress located on the northeastern coast of Scotland.
⚫The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been fortified in the Early Middle Ages.
⚫Dunnottar is best known as the place where the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish crown jewels, were hidden from Oliver Cromwell’s invading army in the 17th century.
⚫Dunnottar’s several buildings, put up between the 13th and 17th centuries, are arranged across a headland covering around 1.4 hectares.
⚫The dominant building, viewed from the land approach, is the 14th-century keep or tower house.
⚫The other principal buildings are the gatehouse; the chapel; and the 16th-century “palace” which incorporates the “Whigs’ Vault”.
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The Mausoleum of Hadrian
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⚫Also known as Castel Sant'Angelo (English: Castle of the Holy Angel).
⚫Located in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy.
⚫It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family.
⚫The building was later used by the popes as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum.
⚫The structure was once the tallest building in Rome.
⚫It was built in AD 135–139 and converted into a fortress in the 5th century.
⚫Following this, the remains of succeeding emperors were also placed here, the last recorded deposition being Caracalla in 217.
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Fort Bard
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⚫Located in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy.
⚫The current fortifications were built by Charles Albert of Savoy between 1830 and 1838.
⚫It replaced a 10th-century castle that had, itself, been built on an earlier structure founded by Theodoric I in the 5th century.
⚫On May 14, 1800, a 40,000-strong French army was stopped by 400 Austro-Piedmontese soldiers at Fort Bard.
⚫The Fort Bard is formed of three main defence stations positioned at different levels upon a high imposing rock spur, the lowest at 400m above ground and the highest at 467m.
⚫There are a total of 283 rooms in the entire fortress.
⚫In 2006 it reopened to tourists as the Museum of the Alps, it has additional art exhibitions and galleries.
⚫In the summer, the main courtyard is used to host musical and theatrical performances.
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Dolia
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⚫Dolia were large vases or vessels used in ancient Roman times for storage or transportation of goods.
⚫It was a very large jug or container made of fired clay.
⚫Oval in shape, with a wide mouth and rim, it had no neck or handles and, in many cases, could measure up to six feet in height.
⚫Some dolia have a rounded body tapering into a flat bottom, while more frequently, dolia maintained a rounded bottom.
⚫They were lined with pitch or wax in order to contain or process liquids and solid foods.
Dolia were also used in a thermopolium (plural thermopolia), a place where it was possible to purchase ready-to-eat food.
⚫Thermopolia being the forerunners of today’s restaurant, the items served are sometimes compared to modern fast food.
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Black basalt statue of a priest of Bastet Padimahes holding a stele of Horus on the crocodiles and covered in magical formulas.
⚫30th Dynasty, (380BC to 300BC).
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Cleopatra’s underwater Palace
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⚫Located on the island of Antirhodos, in Alexandria’s Eastern Harbour , Egypt.
⚫Cleopatra VII was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, she committed suicide in (10 or 12 August 30 BC).
⚫Cleopatra’s palace was submerged
Probably a few centuries after Cleopatra’s reign (1500 years ago) due to a terrible earthquake and a huge tsunami in Egypt.
⚫In 1998 the remains of the ancient city and Cleopatra’s spectacular palace were found.
⚫Within this palace complex incredible intact artefacts were discovered : coins, pottery, vases, basins, statues, columns, marble floors and more.
⚫So far, 20,000 ancient objects have been discovered.
⚫One of the most impressive finds brought to the surface was 1 of 2 large granite Sphinx’s guarding the entrance of a small temple.
⚫Other exciting finds include a very grand statue of the Egyptian god Isis and a gigantic stone head believed to be of Caesarion, the son of Cleopatra and her lover Julius Caesar.
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Mousa Broch
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⚫Located on the island of Mousa in Shetland, Scotland.
⚫It is the tallest broch still standing and amongst the best-preserved prehistoric buildings in Europe.
⚫It is thought to have been constructed c. 100 BC, and is one of about 500 brochs built in Scotland.
⚫It stands at 13.3 metres (44 ft) and its walls are 4.5 meters (15 ft) thick.
⚫The entrance is at the ground level, and it has a staircase that goes all the way to the top.
⚫The stair begins at the second level and is reached by a doorway from inside.
⚫The borch of mousa appears twice in Norse sagas. One recounts how an eloping couple took a shelter here after a shipwreck in 900 AD.
⚫The second Saga, the Orkneyinga Saga, tells a story about the Earl Harald Maddadsson who sieged the broch in 1153 because his mother was abducted and held inside.
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Filippovka Burial kurgans
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⚫The Filippovka burial ground, located in the Orenburg region of Russia.
⚫The cemetery dates from the late-5th or early-4th century BC. and contained 29 kurgans (burial mound) of varying size.
⚫The most significant burial is a huge royal kurgan , it revealed an extremely rich male burial dating to the 4th century BC.
⚫It was filled with many items including a cast silver container with a lid, a gold pectoral, a wooden box, cages, glass, silver and earthenware bathroom flasks, leather pouches, and more.
⚫The archaeologists also uncovered equipment used in the art of tattooing, including two stone mixing palettes and iron, gold covered needles, as well as bone spoons used to blend paints and pens decorated with animals.
⚫The burial belongs to the Early Sarmatian culture of the southern Ural region and provides significant information on the cultural origin of the southern Ural early nomadic population.
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