Wonder Graphics: Itaipu Dam

[Ukas]

Another dam before bedtime.
Itaipu which is built in border river between Brazil and Paraguay. Includes the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world and produces 12,6 million Kilowatts. In comparison the famous Hoover Dam produce 2.08 million kilowatts.

Have fun,

Ukas

 

[hIdDeN_eViL]

constructive criticism: needs a better splash
other than that, pretty nice

 

[LBPB]

Class !

Is Baalbek the next... ?

 

[Ukas]

@Hidden: Must hope that some great splashmaker will hear our secret prayers

@LBPB: I believe not but be patient...
Baalbek is under construction but it is so much work, and I have to other things in side. I'm building it piece by piece and result will include about a thousand cuts from photos of authentic Baalbek stones and structures - like a big miniature puzzle. I work with several things and some will need more work than others, so they often come out in different order than I started them. At this time list is longer than ever before:

Few new temples, Baalbek, Rosetta's Stone, 2-3 new Dams, two commercial buildings, 2-3 Ghettos, 8-10 military or military training buildings, two era specific slum/shanty town series, couple of new prisons, about 10 tech icons and one interface file.

 

[LBPB]

@LBPB: I believe not but be patient.

No pb Ukas, I was only kidding

BTW, I've never realized that you had such hight numbers of requests !

Guess it's that we call fame...

 

[Ukas]

To be honest one third of them are my own requests, my mod is so damn complicated

 

[Snorken]

Nice! Eh... what the heck is Baalbek?

 

[LBPB]

Nice! Eh... what the heck is Baalbek?

It's a great Temple Complex in Lebanon.
I requested to Ukas the Jupiter's version from the Seleucids/Romans era.
Try this link for pics...
http://www.lgic.org/english/eng-mainphotos2-baalbek.htm

And this link for complete explanations & description...
http://www.sacredsites.com/middle_east/lebanon/baalbek.htm

Approximately 86 kilometers northeast of the city of Beirut in eastern Lebanon lies the great temple complex of Baalbek. Situated atop a high point in the fertile Bekaa valley, the ruins are one of the most extraordinary and enigmatic holy places of ancient times. Long before the Romans conquered the site and built their enormous temple of Jupiter, long even before the Phonecians constructed a temple to the god Baal, there stood at Baalbek the largest stone block construction found in all the world.

The origin of the name Baalbek is not precisely known and there is some difference of opinion among scholars. The Phonecian term Baal (as the Hebrew term Adon) simply means ‘lord’ or ‘god’ and was the title given to the Semitic sky-deity worshipped throughout the archaic Middle East. The word Baalbek may mean 'God of the Bekaa valley' (the local area) or ‘God of the Town’, depending on different interpretations of the word. Ancient legends assert that Baalbek was the birthplace of Baal. Some scholars have suggested that Baal (Assyrian Hadad) was only one of a triad of Phoenician deities that were once venerated at this site - the others being his son Aliyan, who presided over well-springs and fecundity, and his daughter Anat (Assyrian Atargatis).

In the Seleucid (323-64 BC) and Roman (64 BC-312 AD) periods, the town became known as Heliopolis, the ‘City of the Sun.' The sky/sun god Jupiter became the central deity of the shrine during this time. Arguably the most important deity of the Romans and taking over the role of Zeus in the Greek pantheon, Jupiter was probably chosen to replace the much earlier worship of the Phonecian god Baal who had many characteristics in common with the Greek Zeus. Many Roman emperors were of Syrian birth, so it would not have been unusual for them to have promoted the worship of the country's indigenous deities under their adopted Roman names. Whatever the nature of the pre-Roman worship at Baalbek, its veneration of Baal created a hybrid form of the god Jupiter, generally referred to as Jupiter Heliopolitan. The Romans also assimilated the worship of the goddess Astarte with that of Aphrodite or Venus, and the god Adonis was identified with Bacchus.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Interesting this one almost slipped me by un-noticed - great stuff- finally some flavour or new wonders for other Civs