Saturday, March 01, 2008
Saturday night mystery photo!
In what I expect to be by far our toughest mystery photo ever, identify the ruin pictured below with as much specificity as you can muster:
10 Comments:
, atThe 'eagle' heads and the way in which the walls are buttressed are good clues, but incomplete for me. I suspect someone with more medieval history or earlier might guess. Has to be medieval, I think (at least what I think as medieval). No visible moss as well. Odd.
, atBy Simon Kenton, at Sat Mar 01, 09:28:00 PM:
Temple of the Sun at Teotihuacan?
By SR, at Sat Mar 01, 09:50:00 PM:
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Chichen Itza, definitely. Temple of the Serpents, maybe?
Is there a reward? Free beer?
Andrew
By TigerHawk, at Sat Mar 01, 11:49:00 PM:
We have a winner! Andrew, the prize is the same as always -- huge esteem and great glory among some of the smartest readers in the blogosphere.
But I'm sure that if I knew which of my many "Andrew" friends you were, I would also be delighted to buy you a beer.
Looks like the type of place where AL GORE and the eco-wackos sit around going OOOMMM OOOMMM OOMMM while meditating on their nature spirits they worship
, atFor the most fascinating, in-depth look you'll ever have into these times, read "Aztec" by Gary Jennings. Written in first person, the research that went into this thing is beyond astounding.
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Damnation, Andrew beat me to it.
I thought Chichen Itza was Mayan?
By TigerHawk, at Sun Mar 02, 08:01:00 PM:
It is. But we have learned not to call out Dr. Mercury, else he lay one of those enormous, link-filled, mocking comments on us!