This is the large temple d' Abou Simbel, dedicated to the glory of the Pharaon Ramsès II. Although the temple is officially dedicated to the triad Amon-Re, Ptah and Ra-Harakhté, its frontage is dominated by four gigantic statues of the large Pharaon himself. It had this temple built in this area sorry differently on the site even d' a sanctuary much older d' a local personification of the Horus god.

The Parthenon is the pentelischem marble, with a purity of texture and color, each visitor in astonishment. Together with a handful of monuments (the Taj Mahal, Markusplatz in Venice), the Parthenon of innumerable photos is well-known, for a long time before one sees it actually. Thus nearly each visitor is by a secret fear suppressed: Can the Parthenon possibly be as beautiful, how one expects? Fortunately is the answer, although the tooth of the time. One does not know photos and descriptions no preparation on the singular gloss of the golden columns of the Parthenon....

After the legend the Shwedagon Pagode is 2500 years old. Archaeologists believe the fact that the Stupa was actually sometime between 6. and 10th century by the Mon, but that is delighted a very controversial topic because after the recordings of buddhistischen monks was it before Buddha built died 486 v. Chr. The history of the Shwedagon Pagode begins with two dealers brothers, Taphussa and Bhallika, from whom country of the Ramanya, meeting with the Mr. Gautama Buddha and receiving of eight hair of the Buddhas are embodied in Burma. King Okkalapa, Singuttara Hill found the two brothers their way to Burma and with the help of the local king, where Reliquien of Buddhas before Gautama Buddha had embodied...