They echo the layout of the Parthenon itself, with a colonnade set around a sacred inner temple chamber.
Inside a vast temple chamber is the Emerald Buddha, a jadeite statue, that is now wrapped in its gold rainy-season cloak, one of three that are changed by royalty as the seasons change.
Etiope's group suggests that if gas was having a neurotoxic effect on the prophetic women at Delphi, it was most likely carbon dioxide and methane causing oxygen deprivation in the enclosed temple chamber that was the source of the Pythias' inspiration.
One temple-like chamber contains the maquette of an enchanted Tibetan city, ringed by miniature mountains that are a conduit to the hereafter.
A group of soldiers playing cards in one of the Hindu temple's stone chambers said they thought the Thais wanted to capture the temple because it would bring in tourist dollars.
When he reaches the temple's inner chambers, he discovers that his father was not killed but was instead possessed by an evil figure.
The temple's inner chambers centered on the sanctuary of the temple's primary god, which typically lay along the axis near the back of the temple building, and in pyramid temples directly against the pyramid base.
Scholars had long assumed that the Greek word parthenón — "the maiden chamber" — referred either to Athena the Virgin, the dedicatee of the building, or to the female servants of the goddess who may have been housed in the temple's rear chamber.
And then you turn and you see, several hundred yards away to the west, the Temple of the Masks, soaring to an equal height and, in between them, to the north, the two-and-a-half-acre acropolis of temples and burial chambers and then, to the south, the maze of palaces, linked by a burrow of passages, and you know you are looking at the hub of an awesome empire.
The vast underground temples and secret chambers of Damanhur.
