The temple was found in a very damaged condition. Some areas of the temple are still being restored while most of the portion of the “mandap” (the only vlearly visible building in the temple compound) is supported on scaffolds.

Hans Splinter has many photos of archaeological reconstruction in his Archeon 2009 set. This is the final image of a fire-making scene. If you look closely you’ll see the orange light of a new flame playing across the woman’s lips.

Close-up of a bone arrowhead in midden deposit dated to about 500 AD. From the 2004 excavation at the South Aniakchak Bay Village (SUT-027). Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska.

Peirene was the daughter of the River God Achelous. After Artemis accidentally killed her child, in her grief she transformed into tears becoming the fountain.

The Almendres Cromlech megalithic complex, located near Guadalupe, Évora, Portugal, is one of the earliest public monuments. It is the largest existing group of structured menhirs in the Iberian Peninsula, and one of the largest in Europe.

This megalithic monument originally consisted of more than one hundred monoliths, some of which have been taken away for other uses. A recent dig showed that the complex had undergone several building phases during the Neolithic.

Angkor Wat, in the jungle of Cambodia.

“The Hunt Scene”: Prehistoric painting found in the Magura Cave, near the city of Belogradchik, Bulgaria. The painting dates from the early Bronze Age.

Read more about the paintings on Wikipedia.

This is an example of archaeology in action at Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve. It’s located on Alaska Peninsula, and even by local standards it seems to be remote. Nonetheless Buzz Hoffmann and his team have found evidence of ancient settlement. Lithic tools have been found associated with carbon dating to 1700 BP, which would be early first millennium AD.

You can follow Buzz’s work at Old Dirt – New Thoughts.

Nicopolis ad Istrum was a Roman and Early Byzantine town founded by Emperor Trajan around 101-106, at the junction of the Iatrus (Yantra) with the Danube, in memory of his victory over the Dacians.

Find out more about Nicopolis ad Istrum on Wikipedia.

Lothal used to be a port in the Bronze Age. It is a Harappan site. The remains found here date back to 2900BC.

Above: This is believed to be a bathroom. The two pots were used to hold water.

The drains are visible in the lower left. The drains used to join the bathrooms with the main sewer line.