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A Tower of Silence
Travels In The Far East (1909)
The circular wall here encloses a place of the dead, where bodies are left to be picked apart by the vultures that we see sitting on the wall and in the tall palm trees in this photograph.The construc [...]
Keywords:
tombs, death, birds, trees, palm trees, ancient buildings, walls, cemetaries, spooky, greyscale
Places shown:
Bombay; India
Added: 2017-04-22
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Entrance to the Cave of the Elephanta
Travels Around the World (1873)
We ascended an easy flight of stone steps to a plateau one hundred and fifty feet above the sea. [...] Passing to the centre of the plateau and turning to the right, we confronted a work of human art [...]
Keywords:
people, trees, temples, water, rocks, bare feet, ceilings, interiors, colour
Places shown:
Elephanta Island; Bombay; India
Added: 2004-01-02
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