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ExploreTravel Agency
Expolre travel4567 Main Street
Raleigh, NC 02134
(718) [email protected]
Created by Teresa Huff
The second artistic
highlight will be the
Ziggurat of Ur. A ziggurat
is a form of a temple found
in Babylonian and Assyrian
civilizations. A shrine
would be on top of the
ziggurat with ramps to lead
to the top. The Ziggurat of
Ur has about a 50 ft hight.
Artistic Highlights Travel Itinerary:
From Prehistoric to Greece and Rome
2. Sumer-Dhi QuarIraq
1.Wiltshire England
The third location
we will travel is
Cairo Egypt where
the famous
pyramids at giza
are. The pyramids
are massive and the
largest is 450 high
made with
2,300,000
limestome blocks
weigin about 2 1/2
tons each.
5. Rome Italy
4. Athens Greece
The first location we'll be visiting is Wiltshire England. The main artistic highlight there being the Stonehenge. It was constructed during the Neolithic period. There are large stones that weigh several tons called megaliths meaning "large stones" in greek. It is a mystery what their prupose was. There are many different theories, some say it was a temple others that it was a complex calender. Whatever the purpose, the Stonehenge is an icon and powerful image of the past.
The next location is Athens greece. There are two main destinations we will be visiting. The first is the Parthenon on Acropolis. It is one of the most influetial buildings in the history of achitecture. The second is the Acropolis Museum. It houses many great peices of Acropolis history. One of them being the Peplos Kore. A statue known as a kore which is a marble representation of a young woman which was used to mark graves or as offerings to the gods.The last destination is Rome. Everything about rome is colossal. The two main attractions that we will be visiting is the large Colosseum and the colossal head of Constatine. The stadium has become an important part of our global culture. And the head of Constatine was part of a larger statue with a head being 8 1/2 feet tall.
3. Cairo Egypt