Al-Khazneh or the "The Treasury" carved into the rock in the ancient Arab Nabatean Kingdom city of Petra. Named from the legend that bandits or pirates hid their loot in a stone urn high on the second level it was actually built as a mausoleum and crypt at the beginning of the 1st century AD. This coincided with the time of the Hellenistic and Roman Empires and has classical Greek-influenced architecture. Petra, known to the ancient Nabataeans as Raqmu, lies on the slope of Jebel al-Madhbah. Jordan. Shot on Film.
Memories from a lost past haunt this abandoned homestead in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Houses like this are scattered all over Ireland due to the incredible historical population collapse. In 1841 the population of the area now covering the Republic of Ireland was over 6.5 million however the Great Famine (Gorta Mór) of 1845 to 1852 or Irish Potato Famine as it is known outside of Ireland, directly caused the deaths of over one million people and a further million more emigrating from Ireland. By 1871 the population had dropped by over a third to four million, and by 1926 the subsequent economic, social, and political turmoil had further reduced the population down to three million, less than half of the 1841 population.
