Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Haidra Photos, Part One


The Christian Church. You can see by the columns that it was originally a Roman Temple and was later converted into one.


This is one of the numerous gravestones inside the church. The majority are in Latin, but there are also several in Ancient Greek.


The steps of the Capitol. That column is the last surviving fully intact one.



Detailing from the Vandal Church - which was notably cruder in design than the Roman structures. The Vandals came into North Africa in the fifth century and conquered most of Tunisia and Eastern Algeria.


Up close and personal with the Triumphal Arch. The stone around the outside is what's left of a later Byzantine construction project to preserve the structure (although is a decidely less grandiose way).

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