THEY don’t make ’em like they used to.
Sydney is spending another $1000,000,000 on replacing stadiums they built for the 2000 Olympics. Meanwhile, The Coloseum still stands, Palmyra’s Roman theatre is still in use, and the covered bazaars which survived Mongol destruction still do a roaring trade and fruit, veg and carpets.
Balconies and verandahs in the narrow backstreets of Stonetown, the capital of Zanzibar.
A house forms the penthouse of an apartment complex in Arusha, Tanzania.
Pillared entrance to Chehel Sotoon Palace, built by Shah Abbas II (1642-66), Esfahan, Iran.
Old Scottish built hospital in Livingstonia, Malawi.
Despite some magnificent heritage and welcoming people, Iran does not get the toursit numbers it should. Chehel Sotoon Palace, Esfahan.
In Kerman, Iran, a tea house in a silk road era caravansarai. Merchants and pilgrims rested here on their perilous journeys east and west many centuries ago.
Domes on the roof of the main old bazaar, Yazd, Iran.
The excercise yard of Robben Island Prison, Nelson Mandela's long time home. Cape Town.
A man repairs carpets in Tabriz' ancient bazaar, the world's largest covered bazaar, Iran.
Arched ceiling of the ancient bazaar of Tabriz, Iran.
French influenced Ministry Of Foreign Affairs building, Tehran. I almost got myself arrested taking pictures here.
Iranian spiritual leader, Ayotollah Khomeni's masoleum is a semi-city. The vast hangar sized hall fills on special occaisons.
In 256-257 AD, the Sassinads conquered the Romans at Dora Europas, deported the people, and abandoned the city. There is evidence that chemical weapons were used. Some things never change.
An old hotel, Aleppo, Syria, almost certainly now destroyed.
Three storey buildings near Aleppo Citadel, Syria, 2005.
Walls of buildings poke through the earth, Apamea, a once-wealthy trading city in the Roman Empire, in what is now Syria.
The Intercontinental Hotel was a favourite spot for snipers during Lebanon's wars.
On the green line, Beirut, Lebanon.
In the Lebanese hills near Syria, rain approaches the Beiteddine Palace.
Palmyra's theatre is again is use for opera and concerts. ISIS used it for executions.
Looking down the main street of Palmyra, once Syria's most famous Roman city.
Thick walls and multiple layers of defence make Krek des Chevaliers a pinnacle of military architecture. Syria.
The terrain around made Qal'at Salah el-Din both difficult to attack, and a vital post. Near Latakia, Syria.
Fine Roman villas, store rooms and other buidlings, Serjilla, Syria, 2005.
Persepolis was a capital of the Achaemenid Empire, but was taken by Alexander of Macedonia.
Petra, Jordan, was a wealthy Nabataen trading city around 2000 years ago in what is now Jordan.
Wealth from the frankinsence trade allowed the Nabataens to build great cities in Arabia.
The Treasury is for my money the most impressive buildings at Petra.
Petra, Jordan, was were parts of "Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom" were filmed.
Wind and rain have left their mark on the monuments of Petra, an ancient Nabataen city about 2000 years old, in Jordan.
Office and residential towers in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Domed roof of the central bus terminal of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
The arched ceiling of a market in downtown Nairobi, Kenya.
These strong structures overlooking the Tigris river, in Hasankeyf, may have been a citadel, or mosque. I'm not sure now. But of course, the have been either flooded or moved for the damn anyway.
The amphitheatre, Efes (Esphesus), Turkey.
Efes, or Esphesus, in Turkey's west, has hosted many great civilizations.
Topkapi Palace sits overlooking the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey.
The haram was the Sultan's most private and secluded part of Topkapi Palace. Haram literally means "forbidden".
The audience hall of Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey.
The mighty Uzbek conqueror, Amr Timur commissioned this masoleum for poet and sufi Kozha Akhmed Yasaui, in Turkestan, Kazakhstan.
A bar forms a pedestrian overpass in downtown Al Mata, Kazakhstan.
Buily by Timur in the 14th century, Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Turkistan, Kazakhstan.