continued Chufut Kale / Crimean peninsula
The Whole thing has been hollowed out here.
continued Chufut Kale / Crimean peninsula
The Whole thing has been hollowed out here.
Last edited by uzn; 26th September 2017 at 16:58.
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Last edited by uzn; 26th September 2017 at 14:20.
Looks different but is just around the corner.
If you look closely one can see that the whole Plateau is sculpted.
overview of one cliffside
The entrance, fortified in medieval times.
cool little windows in the rock
This one again because it´s so amazing
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Last edited by uzn; 26th September 2017 at 14:50.
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Again the "Street", it´s solid rock and goes a long way
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Ah, I nearly forgot. There is an ancient spiral Staircase ! It´s carved out of solid rock !
wow
Tunnels in solid rock
Last edited by uzn; 27th September 2017 at 05:48.
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And a little video of Chufut Kale.
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Just to ease thing up between all the caves I present you one out of place object from russia. This meight not be ancient but intriguing anyway.
The so called "Tsar Bath" located in the Babolovsky Palace in Tsarskoye Selo. I don´t know if it´s a bath at all. If you sit in it you would drown. It´s also called Babol's bath .Pure Granite. Weights 48 tons. Perfectly round.
[IMG]http://rodobogie.org/uploads/files//2015/12/3_1.jpg[/IMG
strange old ladder next to it with ornaments.
This is what the russian Wikipedia has on it:
The russian presume it was Sukhanov. They dont know who did this! The Tzar probably knew who did this or where it came from.Tsar bath (or Babol's bowl , or Babol's bath ) - a bowl made of solid granite weighing 48 tons, a height of 1.96 meters, a diameter of 5.33 meters and a depth of 1.52 meters. It is located in the Babol Palace in Tsarskoye Selo . The approximate volume of the bath is 23 cubic meters. or about 1,900 buckets, although P. Svinin's article (Otechestvennye zapiski, 1818) mentions a capacity of 800 buckets.
Presumably the cup was ordered by the engineer Betancourt Kamenotos Samson Sukhanov . The master asked for this to deliver a piece of granite with inclusions of a labrador weighing more than 160 tons. Then it was polished from 1818 to 1828. The work was done truly jeweler, as the thickness of the walls of the bowl (45 cm ) is the minimum thickness to withstand the weight of a bowl full of water.
Professor Zembitsky noted:
This work of the Russian artist is all the more deserving of attention that since the time of the Egyptians nothing is known so colossal of granite.
Turner:
THE SITE OF "VANNA" ... its dimensions are enormous. This is a non-human-sized "bathtub" weighing 48 tons, depth - 151.1 cm, diameter - 533 cm. "According to the calculation in the bath this will come to 800 buckets of water." By modern standards, counting 1 bucket = 12.293 liters, we get the water volume in the tub about 10 cubic meters. m, and by the geometric dimensions of water in the bath can pour about 25 cubic meters. m. That is, the calculation was either incorrect, or the bill went to the buckets of hot water added to dilute cold water, or to partial filling - by 1/2 of this giant bath.
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