Sorry for the delay in posting this. We’ve been sorting out our servers for migration to our new website. Here’s the latest one after I managed to get WOGE 15 – Myrina on Lemnos correct. Again, if you click on the image, you’ll get a larger version of this place. I hope it isn’t toooo hard. Rules as follows:
Q: What is When on Google Earth?
A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!
Q: How do you play it?
A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.
Q: Who wins?
A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.
Q: What does the winner get?
A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!
When on Google Earth part 16
I must be blind, but I’m not seeing the site. Which feature(s) should we be focussing on?
Comment by Paul Zimmerman — March 25, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
Paul,
The site is running alongside where you can see a paved road in the middle of the picture. The golden statue in the right hand section gives you a clue to the site’s location and it isn’t part of the classical world.
Dan
Comment by Daniel Pett — March 25, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
Hmm. There’s a golden statue, and it stood there long enough for Google to photograph it, so it’s clearly not Manchester. I’m wondering if the statue is Buddhist or similar.
Comment by Alun — March 25, 2009 @ 10:18 pm
Dan, I believe the site is the ‘Ancient City of Sigiriya’ (UNESCO World Heritage Site) central Matale District of Sri Lanka. Its a rock fortress (the Lion Mountain) and associated features largely built during the reign of King Kassapa I (AD 477 – 495), and occupied previously and afterwards, though Google Earth does not really do it justice.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/202
Amazing, have you been there?
Comment by Paul Barford — March 26, 2009 @ 7:17 am
Paul,
Right country, but wrong place, right about UNESCO status. There’s a major clue that Alun has picked up on.
Sigiriya is brilliant, one of the best sites I have ever seen. This place is not quite as magnificent, but still good.
Dan
Comment by Daniel Pett — March 26, 2009 @ 8:04 am
Ha ha, its wrongly labelled on Googel earth, that’s why I could not make the rocky lump match the photos of the site… (happens on Google earth Warsaw Airport had a huge nonm-existent hole in the middle of the runway, they’ve fixed it now)!
I found the golden buddha and then got lost …
OK, do I get a second go?
Dambulla cave temple
7° 51′ 0″ N, 80° 39′ 0″ E
1st cent BC
Comment by Paul Barford — March 26, 2009 @ 9:43 am
We have a winner!
Comment by Daniel Pett — March 26, 2009 @ 9:49 am
Phew… I could not work out whey the rocky lump behind the buddha does not look like the photos of the other site – but it was early in the morning after a late night.
Thanks Dan, I enjoyed looking at all those big buddhas to find the right one…
The next When on Google earth will be on my blog “portable antiquities and heritage matters” maybe tomorrow.
Comment by Paul Barford — March 26, 2009 @ 10:27 am
When on Google Earth 17 is here:
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2009/03/when-on-google-earth-17.html
Comment by Paul Barford — March 26, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
that is a greeat fot, jeje i like find my city in the program, it’s cool
Comment by juas juas juas — March 31, 2009 @ 12:15 pm
When on Google Earth 18 has just been posted.
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