AIA Photo Contest: Monuments

Cahokia Mounsd, State Historic Site, Collinsville, Illinois, USA.

Chicago, IL, United States

Cahokia Mound.

Neapoli, Crete

Neapoli, Lasithi, Greece

14th century Franciscan Priory The recently, partly restored Franciscan monastery of Agios Antonios a kilometre from the Cretan town of Neapoli, from where the locally born monk Pietro Filargos began his religious career before being elected Pope Alexander V in 1409. The last Greek born Pope.

The temple of Athena in Assos

Assos-Behram, Canakkale, Turkey

Sunrise at the Athena temple on the acropolis of Assos.

The temple of Athena in Assos

Assos-Behram, Canakkale, Turkey

Sunrise at the Athena temple of Assos.

Ephesus, Library of Celsius

Selcuk, Ismir, Turkey

Close up of the Celsius library.

Herodium. “Mountain of the Little Paradise”) is a truncated-cone-shaped hill, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of Jerusalem and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southeast of Bethlehem, in the Judaean Desert, West Bank. Herod the Great built a palace fortress and a small town at Herodium, between 23 and 15 BCE, and is believed to have been buried there.[2] Herodium is 758 meters (2,487 ft) above sea level,[3] the highest peak in the Judaean Desert.

Rishon Le-Tzion, Gush Dan, Israel

Archaeology of Irodion

Tetrapylon, Aphrodisias

Aphrodisias, Karacasu, Turkey

Monumental entrance to the sanctuary of Aphrodite, patron goddess of Aphrodisias.

Medinet Habu

Luxor, Egypt

A man at work delicately cleaning and restoring a column of the Medinet Habu, the Mortuary Temple of Ramses III in Luxor, Egypt.

Tikal National Park

Flores, Peten Department, Guatemala

A partially excavated pyramid in Tikal, Guatemala.

Kiosk of Philae

Aswan, Egypt

An old-style photo impression of the Kiosk of Philae seen from a felucca on the Nile at Aswan, Egypt. The Philae temple ruins were dismantled and reconstructed on higher ground in the 1960s to avoid damage from flooding.

Doric Temple

Segesta, Sicily, Italy

This Doric temple in Segesta, Sicily, lacks the usual fluting on the columns, suggesting that the structure was never completed.

Temple of Poseidon, Sounion

Cape Sounion, Athens, Greece

Sunset over the Temple of Poseidon.