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LOR4251681: France, Champagne-Ardenne, Marne (51), Vienne le Chateau (Vienne-le-Chateau) - Camp de la Vallee Moreau - recontitution and remnants of a german camp of the First World War (First World War 1914-1918 or 14-18). Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250614: Archaeological site of Gournia. South complex. Street system and remains of houses used as Workshop and storage room. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Crete / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250503: Archaeological site of Gournia. Street system and storage houses of the palace. Upright unworked stone slab deliberately set into the pavement of the street interpreted as a sacred stone. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Crete / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250426: View over Balos beach and Gramvoussa Island, Crete. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250513: Archaeological site of Gournia. Street system and storage houses of the palace in the north aera. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Crete / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250546: Archaeological site of Gournia. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and range-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Stairs leading to the remains of the Palace. The palace was the most luxurious building in town, probably the administrative center and the residence of the town's leader. Crete / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250337: View over the old tonw and the port of Chania, Crete. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250355: Chania Lighthouse, constructed between 1595 and 1601 by the Venetians. It was built on a natural Rock and functioned as open flame torch. The lighthouse is 21 meters high and its light covers a distance of 7 miles. Crete. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250624: Archaeological site of Gournia. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and range-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Remains of the Palace. The palace was the most luxurious building in town, probably the administrative center and the residence of the town's leader. Crete / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250630: Archaeological site of Gournia. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The city has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250274: Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. View over the central court from the north wing. The central court was a basic architectural element of Minoen palace. It is a core around which the different wing are set. This central court was built in the time of the old palace (1900-1700 BC). It was also use in the New Palace. The central court was used for economic, social and religious activities of the palace. The stairs, visible here, led to the upper floor of the palace. Phaistos, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250287: Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. General view of the west wing shrines along the central court from the north wing. There were two types of shrine: “Bench shrine” and “Lutral Basin””. The “” bench Shrine”” was a small and rectangular room with low benches running round the walls to support cult objects and figurine of the deity. On some of them were found female figurine, ritual vessels, and “” offering tables”” (small altar). The “” Lustral Basin”” type was a room lower than the founding structures, with a few steps leading down into them. It was used for purification rituals., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250060: Minoen archeological site of Knossos. North entrance, North pillar Hall. Bastion reconstructed by Arthur Evans where he put a copy of a restored relief fresco of a bull. Knossos, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250198: Minoan archeological site of Phaistos.The queen's Megaron (ie the queen's apartments). The southernmost of the “” Royal Apartmentsof Phaistos. The floor were paved with Gypsum slabs and red plaster filling the interstice. Gypsum were also used for thr benches running around the walls. Two staircases led to the upper floor of the Megaron and the peristyle, where one of the main entrance of the “” Royal Apartment 'was located. Phaistos, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250049: Minoen archeological site of Knossos. Detail of a column of the Hall of the double axes and the queen megaron of the palace of the king Minos. Knossos, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250036: Minoen archeological site of Knossos. West wing; Aera called “Tripartite shrine” by A. Evans. Inside the shrine were found many religious objects such as clay tablets or clay seals impression possibly connected with the archive of a shrine. Knossos, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250055: Minoen archeological site of Knossos. North entrance, North pillar Hall. Bastion reconstructed by Arthur Evans where he put a copy of a restored relief fresco of a bull. Knossos, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250014: Minoen archeological site of Knossos. North lustral basins. North entrance of the palace. According to A. Evans this building was used in purification ceremonies and therefore called this place “” Lustral basins””. Knossos, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250020: Minoen archeological site of Knossos. North lustral basins. North entrance of the palace. According to A. Evans this building was used in purification ceremonies and therefore called this place “” Lustral basins””. Knossos, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250167: Minoan archeological site of Phaistos.North east complex. Complex of four rooms directly adjoining the old palace. These rooms were used to store valuable ritual vessels. The famous “” Phaistos disc”” bearing hieroglyphic writing was found here with other clay tablets inscribed in linear A. There are also Potter's Workshop as a large number of unfinished pots were found here. Phaistos, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251500: France, Champagne-Ardenne, Marne (51), Vienne le Chateau (Vienne-le-Chateau) - Camp de la Vallee Moreau - recontitution and remnants of a german camp of the First World War (First World War 1914-1918). Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251536: France, Champagne-Ardenne, Marne (51), Vienne le Chateau (Vienne-le-Chateau) - Camp de la Vallee Moreau - recontitution and remnants of a german camp of the First World War (First World War 1914-1918 or 14-18). Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251865: Statue of Charles Juste de Beauvau-Craon (Beauvau Craon, 1720-1793), marshal and minister of France from the French Academy. Bust. Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
LOR4250799: France, Brittany province, Department of Cote d'Armor (22), Ploumanach. / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251185: France, Champagne-Ardenne, Marne (51), Reims - Fort de la Pompelle (outdoor), remnants of fortification of the First World War's fort with tunnels, wires, protecting bags (First World War 1914-1918 or 14-18). Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251463: France, Champagne-Ardenne, Marne (51), Suippes - “Centre d'interpretation Marne 14-18”, Museum about the First World War (First World War 1914-1918 or 14-18). Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251891: Queens of France and illustrious women, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris: Statue of Bertrade or Berthe de Laon called Berthe au Grand Pied (726-783), queen of France, wife of King Pepin Le Brif. Sculpture by Eugene Oudine, / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251951: Jean Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832). Famous english chemist and politician. He invented the Chaptelisation for the treatment of wine. Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
LOR4250948: France, Lorraine province, Department of Vosges (88), Epinal. View from the hights on the city and its center, and the basilica of Saint Maurice. Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251773: ADAM Raoul (1881-1947), french painter, landscapist. Board remembering his stay in Nohant in Indre. Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251708: France, Champagne-Ardenne, Marne (51), Vienne le Chateau (Vienne-le-Chateau) - Museum of the First World War (First World War 1914-1918 or 14-18) - Erwin Rommel's bed. Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251374: France, Champagne-Ardenne, Marne (51), Sommepy-Tahure (Sommepy Tahure) Franco-American Museum of the First World War (First World War 1914-1918 or 14-18). Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
LOR4251310: France, Champagne-Ardenne, Marne (51), Sommepy-Tahure (Sommepy Tahure) - American memorial of the battles of Champagne of the american army. Photography Florent Lamontagne / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250467: Remains of the harbour of the Ancient City of Phalasarna. West coast of Crete. The harbour was built aroud a lagoon and link to the sea via two channels.The city was inhabited, in the Minoan period, in the archaic and the classical years. At its peak between the middle of the 4th century BC and 67 BC., it was destroyed by the Romans, because it turned to piracy and its harbour went out of use. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250506: Archaeological site of Gournia. Street system and storage houses of the palace in the north aera. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Crete / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250596: Archaeological site of Gournia. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and range-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Stairs leading to the remains of the Palace. The palace was the most luxurious building in town, probably the administrative center and the residence of the town's leader. Crete / Bridgeman Images
