While watching the movie "Troy," the one with Brad Pitt, last night I noticed an Egyptian influence in the architectural design of the temple to Apollo. Wondering if this could be so, or it was the producer's idea, I began to research. This is some of what I found.
Troy was probably in modern-day Turkey, and that it was a cultural gateway between Greece and the Mid-East. The period of Greek History to which this story refers is called the Greek Dark Ages, because little tangible evidence is available.
More importantly I found that there is a Wikipedia campaign this month "where participants compete to take photographs of as many local sights as possible for Wikipedia articles where they are needed."
-- Marge
Troy was probably in modern-day Turkey, and that it was a cultural gateway between Greece and the Mid-East. The period of Greek History to which this story refers is called the Greek Dark Ages, because little tangible evidence is available.
More importantly I found that there is a Wikipedia campaign this month "where participants compete to take photographs of as many local sights as possible for Wikipedia articles where they are needed."
Wikipedia Takes America is a campaign throughout September 2012 to organize Wikipedia Takes Your City photo scavenger hunts across the United States, to coincide with the international Wiki Loves Monuments architectural photography contest.The Wiki Loves Monuments page states:
In the U.S., the contest will focus on sites on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), which have been organized on Wikipedia by state and county.BTW, if you're looking for something else to do, this map of archaic Greece needs to be replaced with an SVG version.
-- Marge
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