AIA Photo Contest: Fun Finds

Oxford

Oxford, Europe, United Kingdom

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." -Henry Thoreau

Across the street from the C&O Canal Lock 33

Harpers Ferry, MD, United States

Nature slowly takes over these ruins of an unidentified home

Valley of the Temples

Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

Trowel Breaker. Scuola Normale Superiore, Excavation at Temple D (Photo by the Archaeological Team)

Selinunte Archeological Park

Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy

Original painting on stone that survived for more than 2,000 years

Herculaneum

Ercolono, Campania, Italy

Amphoras waiting to be filled with wine

Roman villa at Oarda-Bulza near Apulum (Roman Dacia)

Alba Iulia, Transylvania, Romania

Call of the ancestors

Oranje Bay

St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba

During the investigation of an 18th-century shipwreck site, this beautiful Dutch tin-glazed plate was discovered. It depicts an enigmatic image of a saint who is not identified as of yet.

Aphidna, Greece

Aphidna near Athens, Attica, Greece

Everyday lives and place: an abandoned early modern beehive embedded in an agricultural terrace wall.

Aphidna, Athens (Greece)

Athens, Attica, Greece

Ancient lives and place: A loom weight found in a field during the 2019 survey at ancient Aphidna (Kotroni Archaeological Survey Project/KASP)

Xique-Xique I Archaeological Site

Carnaúba dos Dantas, RN, Brazil

Scene of violence in prehistoric rock art in the Seridó

The Turnbull Building

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom

The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley, serialised in The Daily Mail, 18 December 1934. Fragment of newspaper found preserved in a clinker drain in the basement of the Turnbull Building, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Sanctuary of Apollo Bassae

Bassae, Messenia/Arcadia, Greece

temple cat of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae