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Sacred and Enigmatic Places - Africa and the Middle East |
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Sacred and Enigmatic Places
Africa and the Middle East
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CappadociaPagans in this part of central Turkey lived and worshiped in chambers cut from volcanic rock long before Greek Christians arrived in the fourth century and converted the grottoes into churches.
ClarosAllegedly a place of divine prophecy, this site in western Turkey drew visitors from all over the known world during the Roman era and was one of the last oracles still operating in Christian times.
Great PyramidDead animals found in this 4,400-year-old wonder, ten miles west of Cairo, offer evidence of the strange effect it is said to have on material things: Though dehydrated, the animals resist decomposition.
Great ZimbabwePerhaps showing the prehistoric residents mystical attachment to the soil, a thirty-foot-tall stone tower at this site south of the Zambezi River may have been a symbol used in crop fertility rituals.
JerusalemFor centuries the object of both pilgrims and invading armies, this ancient city is revered by Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike. All three faiths consider it the site of miracles past and future.
KarnakEvidence exists that this site south of Cairo was considered sacred centuries before the Egyptians built the prehistoric complex of temples and other structures whose ruins stand here today.
Lake Barombi MboBelieved to contain a powerful spirit named Mammy Water, this lake in Cameroon is the site of animal sacrifices intended to prevent such troubles as the spread of lethal lake-water gases along the shores.
LalibelaChristians living near this town in northern Ethiopia have worshiped for centuries in eleven churches that were painstakingly hewn from solid rock. According to legend, the carvers were assisted by angels.
MeccaThis city in Saudi Arabia, the place toward which Muslims face when praying, surrounds a sacred stone said to have fallen from heaven. Muslims believe the stone was white and turned black absorbing human sin.
Mount AraratFor years, a dragon, frigid snow worms, and other mythical creatures were thought to guard this 17,000-foot mountain in eastern Turkey. It is believed to be the final resting spot of Noahs Ark.
Takt-I-SuleimanSacred to pagans, then Zoroastrians, then Muslims, but never to Christians, this complex on the shores of a supposedly bottomless lake in Iran was nonetheless rumored to be the hiding place of the Holy Grail.
Tassili NAjjerPrehistoric paintings, some almost 7,000 years old, cover this rocky plateau 900 miles southeast of Algiers. Scholars say they hint at mystical practices once common but now lost in the mists of time.
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