Mysteries of Easter island
Oblong stones set vertically. From here 2935 pieces. They stretched in 12 rows with a length of four kilometers. Some of them remained undeciphered until now inscriptions. These megaliths by…

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The megalithic temples of Malta
Mysterious megalithic temples of Malta are on the list of world cultural heritage sites of UNESCO, as a single group. These wonderful sanctuaries are more than 5 thousand years. Every…

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Gothic style
Gothic – historic artistic style that dominated Western European art in the XIII-XV centuries by the Goths the Romans called barbarian tribes invaded from the North in the Empire in…

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Greece architecture
The concept of "ancient art" first appeared in the XV century in Italy, when in combat with thousands of years of Church tradition of the middle ages argued new, is…

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Build in Romanesque style

Architecture – also the annals of the world: she says when you have kept silent and songs, and stories” (Nikolai Gogol).

The first buildings emerged in the Neolithic period when man had to live somewhere, and he built a primitive shelter out of scrap materials.

The architecture can be divided into two parts: architecture as an independent art and architecture. Architecture originated in Greece in the fifth century BC, and the architectural art in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

To the great styles of architecture include the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance (the Renaissance), Baroque, Rococo, classicism and Empire. Change mixed architectural styles: the simple style is replaced by complex, we replaced sophisticated style comes easier.

The transition from simple Roman style to the Gothic complex was carried out over a hundred years. It was a slow, smooth change of styles that began in the mid-twelfth century and ended in the middle of the XIII. The Romanesque style was more creative than Gothic. During the Romanesque style was considered fashionable colors-white, green,red, brown. The time of the Romanesque style – with 950 years to 1250 years. For Romanesque style is characterized by a rectangular-shaped (arched in stone houses) Windows and same shape wooden door, with heavy bolts, locks and hinges, repeating floral or geometric pattern.

The period of the Gothic style – from 1250 to 1520. The most fashionable colors are red, blue and yellow. For the Gothic style is characterized by elongated Windows, if decorative, the round shape, the colored stained-glass Windows; oak doors and doorways in the form of arches.

Replaced the Gothic style came the Renaissance. It was a sharp change of one style of architecture to another, it is not similar. For the Renaissance was considered to be fashionable colors brown, purple, yellow, and blue. The window is rectangular, framed by a heavy cornice, often by two or even three Windows together. Doors too heavy cornices. In the Renaissance style applied pattern of leaves, painted ceiling and walls.

A study of megalithic structures
Of great importance in the study of the history of our ancestors is a study of megalithic structures. A huge range of location: from the southern end and Oceanites Dolmens…

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The history of the Brooklyn bridge is one of the greatest buildings of America.
The Brooklyn bridge is one of the most famous bridges of America, whose length is almost two kilometers long while the bridge is hanging. Is a bridge across the Strait…

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Mysteries of Easter island
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Mysteries of the South Ural "Stonehenge"
Mysterious stone structures scattered across the Chelyabinsk region. They are hidden in forests and swamps, erected on mountain tops... All of them are cult objects. Perhaps ancient burial places. One…

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Roman engineering structures
To the top of the construction activities of the Romans are engineering structures. The largest facilities are the network of roads covered the whole territory of the Empire. The Roman…

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