Detail InformationEdit Grange Abbey is a ruined chapel on the former Grange of Baldoyle lands, now in Donaghmede, in the townland of Baldoyle, at the northern edge of Dublin city, Ireland. The rectangular stone building, aligned east of north east, measures 13.7m by 4.8m internally, and the four walls are intact to a height of […]

John F. Kennedy Memorial Park is an inner-city public park in Galway, Ireland, formerly officially named Eyre Square (Irish: An Fhaiche Mhór) and still widely known by that name. The park is within the city centre, adjoining the nearby shopping area of Williams Street and Shop Street. The park is rectangular, surrounded on three sides […]

Detail InformationEdit Namoratunga represent an archaeoastronomical site at the west side of Lake Turkana in Kenya, believed to have been founded around 300 BC. Namoratunga II contains 19 basalt pillars, aligned with 7 star systems Triangulum, Pleiades, Bellatrix, Aldebaran, Central Orion, Saiph, and Sirius. Namoratunga means “people of stone” in the Turkana language. Mark Lynch […]

Karak (also Kerak) (Arabic: Al-Karak الكرك‎) is a city in Jordan that is known for the famous crusader castle Kerak. The castle is one of the three largest castles in the region, the other two being in Syria. Karak is the capital city of Karak Governorate. Karak, once a Kingdom, lies 140 km to the […]

Detail InformationEdit Ain Ghazal is a Neolithic site located in North-Western Jordan, on the outskirts of Amman. It dates as far back as 7250 BC, and was inhabited until 5000 BC. At 15 hectares (37 ac), ‘Ain Ghazal ranks as one of the largest known prehistoric settlements in the Near East. In its prime era […]

Detail InformationEdit Qasr Hammam As-Sarah is an Umayyad bathhouse located in Jordan, approximately 2 kilometers east of the Qasr al Hallabat. It is one of the Umayyad buildings in Jordan collectively known as the Desert castle. The design of the bathhouse shows similarities to the design of Qasr Amra, another of the Desert Castles. Today […]

Detail InformationEdit Kerak Castle is a large crusader castle located in Kerak in Jordan. It is one of the largest crusader castles in the Levant. Construction of the castle began in the 1140s, under Pagan, Fulk of Jerusalem’s butler. The Crusaders called it Crac des Moabites or “Karak in Moab”, as it is frequently referred […]

Detail InformationEdit Beidha is a major Neolithic archaeological site a few kilometres north of Petra near Siq al-Barid in Jordan. It was first excavated by Diana Kirkbride in 1957 and later by Brian Byrd. There were 3 periods of occupation detected; the Natufian period in the 11th millennium BC, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) village […]

Detail InformationEdit An ancient Crusader stronghold, Karak sits 900m above sea level and lies inside the walls of the Old City. The city today is home to around 170,000 people and continues to boast a number of restored 19th century Ottoman buildings, restaurants, places to stay, and the like. But it is undoubtedly Karak Castle […]

Detail InformationEdit Citadel of Hồ Dynasty (Vietnamese: Thành nhà Hồ; also called Tây Đô castle or Tây Giai castle) is a citadel in Vietnam, constructed by the Hồ Dynasty (1400-1407). It is located in Tây Giai commune, Vĩnh Lộc district, in Thanh Hóa Province, in Vietnam’s North Central Coast region. Tây Đô castle is rectangular […]