Ruins seen or found on Google Earth

[Pax Unum]

Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III, Egypt. 25°43'10.28" N 32°36'04.82" E

[Pax Unum]

Mount Ararat, Turkey. 39°42'15.21" N 44°18'03.78" E

Noah's Ark... 39°26'25.93" N 44°14'05.56" E - Not really...

Edited June 14, 2011 by Pax Unum

[Pax Unum]

Erdene Zuu Monastery, Mongolia. 47°12'05.14" N 102°50'34.10" E

[Pax Unum]

Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan. 34°23'46.09" N 64°30'56.79" E

[Pax Unum]

Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains, China. 32°25'35.63" N 111°01'21.54" E

[Pax Unum]

Porta De Santiago (a'famosa Fortress), Malaysia. 2°11'30.58" N 102°15'01.42" E

Old Fort, WWII, Modern? 2°10'56.58" N 102°16'03.67" E

Edited June 14, 2011 by Pax Unum

[Pax Unum]

Phanom Rung, Khmer temple complex, Thailand. 14°31'54.62" N 102°56'41.19" E

[Pax Unum]

Vat Phou Temple, Laos. 14°50'53.61" N 105°49'07.57" E

Oval moat? 14°51'02.77" N 105°51'35.19" E

Carving of a crocodile on the upper level, possibly the site of an annual human sacrifice in pre-Angkorian times.

Vat Phou

Edited June 15, 2011 by Pax Unum

[Pax Unum]

Temple of Artemis, Turkey. 37°56'57.95" N 27°21'50.24" E

[Pax Unum]

Ephesus, Turkey. 37°56'27.94" N 27°20'27.59" E

[kmt_sesh]

Vat Phou Temple, Laos. 14°50'53.61" N 105°49'07.57" E

Oval moat? 14°51'02.77" N 105°51'35.19" E

Carving of a crocodile on the upper level, possibly the site of an annual human sacrifice in pre-Angkorian times.

Vat Phou

Pax, I wouldn't mind contributing some more locations but evidently my degree symbol was throwing off my coordinates. I'm on a Mac and Option + k is the keyboard combination I use in word-processing and design software, but it doesn't look right in my posts. What keyboard combination do you use? Doesn't matter if you're on a PC--it would send me in the right direction, at least.

[kmt_sesh]

I may have found it already. The combination Option + 0 seems to look right: º.

Here are your coordinates for Vat Phou Temple: 14°50'53.61" N 105°49'07.57" E

Here's how it looks when I type it: 14º50'53.61"N 105º49'07.57"E

If you have a moment, would you mind using my coordinates to see if you land on the same spot? I'd appreciate it. I didn't mean for you to have to retype so many of the sites I had contributed earlier, which was very kind of you.

[Pax Unum]

I may have found it already. The combination Option + 0 seems to look right: º.

Here are your coordinates for Vat Phou Temple: 14°50'53.61" N 105°49'07.57" E

Here's how it looks when I type it: 14º50'53.61"N 105º49'07.57"E

If you have a moment, would you mind using my coordinates to see if you land on the same spot? I'd appreciate it. I didn't mean for you to have to retype so many of the sites I had contributed earlier, which was very kind of you.

Your Coords come out about 8.5 miles E of mine, weird...

Have you tried using the Edit menu?, 'Edit', 'Copy View Location', then paste that into your post...

Edited June 15, 2011 by Pax Unum

[Pax Unum]

Monks Mound, Pre-Columbian earthwork, USA. 38°39'35.78" N 90°03'43.57" W

[kmt_sesh]

Your Coords come out about 8.5 miles E of mine, weird...

Have you tried using the Edit menu?, 'Edit', 'Copy View Location', then paste that into your post...

I tried updating to the latest version of Google Earth (v6) but it didn't work because I don't have an Intel Mac. I'm one model down. In any case I don't have the "Copy View Location" function, which would be awfully nice. Or maybe it's something available on PCs but not Macs when using Google Earth.

But let's give it a try with the pyramid complex of King Unis, last Egyptian monarch of Dynasty 5 and the first whose pyramid was inscribed with Pyramid Texts.

The coordinates: 29º52'08.32"N 31º12'54.22"E

If all goes well you should see something like this:

Minus my labeled thumbtacks, of course. This is an old Google Earth image I prepared for a post in a different forum some years ago. If my coordinates work, you should see something similar to the above image. Maybe. Hopefully.

[Pax Unum]

This is where those coords go on the PC software... I'm not sure where your ruins are, so I can't tell how far off it is...

[WHO U KIDDIN]

I call them the Stars of Veiques, Puerto Rico.

18'08'18.96"N, 65'18'13.02"W (First star)

18'08'28.23"N, 65'17'05.46"W (Second star)

Don't know if they are ancient or not, but they both seem to look like starfishes, perhaps they may be Taino Indian ruins.

On the other hand, other people say they may be actually US Navy targets built in the shape of Russian Sam missile battery sites, when Veiques was still used as a firing range for the Navy. But they don't seem to resemble any of the photos of Russian Sam missile batteries sites available on the web.

[Pax Unum]

First Star - 18°08'19.10" N 65°18'11.42" W

Second Star - 18°08'28.26" N 65°17'05.55" W

? Vieques, Puerto Rico. 18°07'24.05" N 65°27'51.31" W

Edited June 15, 2011 by Pax Unum

[SHaYap]

I tried updating to the latest version of Google Earth (v6) but it didn't work because I don't have an Intel Mac. I'm one model down. In any case I don't have the "Copy View Location" function, which would be awfully nice. Or maybe it's something available on PCs but not Macs when using Google Earth.

Which browser are you using ol'chap? I suspect its the text language rendering settings in your browser that is replacing the symbols.

[WHO U KIDDIN]

? Vieques, Puerto Rico. 18° 7′ 0″ N, 65° 25′ 0″ W

Sorry for the miss spelling Vieques, Puerto Rico, small isle off the south eastern coast of Puerto Rico.

[Pax Unum]

Sorry for the miss spelling Vieques, Puerto Rico, small isle off the south eastern coast of Puerto Rico.

No, I got that, I was '?' what was at those coordinates...

[Pax Unum]

I tried updating to the latest version of Google Earth (v6) but it didn't work because I don't have an Intel Mac. I'm one model down. In any case I don't have the "Copy View Location" function, which would be awfully nice. Or maybe it's something available on PCs but not Macs when using Google Earth.

But let's give it a try with the pyramid complex of King Unis, last Egyptian monarch of Dynasty 5 and the first whose pyramid was inscribed with Pyramid Texts.

The coordinates: 29º52'08.32"N 31º12'54.22"E

If all goes well you should see something like this:

Minus my labeled thumbtacks, of course. This is an old Google Earth image I prepared for a post in a different forum some years ago. If my coordinates work, you should see something similar to the above image. Maybe. Hopefully.

I found the location, it's 29°52'05.29" N 31°12'58.63" E on the PC, Does that work?

[Pax Unum]

Large complex (?) near Valley of the Kings, Egypt. 25°43'40.36" N 32°36'38.82" E

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Large complex (?) near Valley of the Kings, Egypt. 25°43'40.36" N 32°36'38.82" E

Deir el-Bahari

[kmt_sesh]

Deir el-Bahari

One of my very favorite examples of Egyptian engineering. Makes the Great Pyramid seem kind of plain-jane by comparison.