Perhaps the shape of this mountain will give you a clue as to where it is. Put on your thinking caps, get some mountain views, and determine the answer to this edition’s mystery. Hint: it’s not in Georgia! Send your conclusion to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. wrote of the last Mystery Photo: “This is of the Amphitheater of El Jem located in the center of El Djem, formerly known as Thysdrus, in Tunisia, Africa. Built around 238 AD, it is one of the largest and best-preserved Roman Empire amphitheaters in the world, albeit it is smaller than the world’s largest—the Colosseum in Rome, Italy. It is three levels high, with 80 arcades, and is oval-shaped at 486-feet long by 400-feet wide. It could seat approximately 35,000 spectators who would go to the venue to see gladiatorial contests, animal fights, and public executions.
“The historic amphitheater is still used today for some events, such as concerts and festivals. It was also featured in the 1979 Monty Python film Life of Brian, as well as the seventh episode of the 2007 TV series Long Way Down. For Amazing Race fans, the Amphitheater of El Jem was used as the final pit stop of Season 1.”
The photo came from Steve Ogilvie of Lawrenceville. Other readers recognizing the photo were George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Lou Camerio, Lawrenceville; and Ruthie Lachman Paul, Norcross.
SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: elliott@brack.net and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
OTHER NATIONS also remember their military dead in special cemeteries. Here is a photo that Bill Durrence of Savannah sent out recently of a military cemetery in Cu Chi, Vietnam. Bill says that the shape of military grave markers will vary from culture to culture, but the common denominator in each military cemetery is the endless, numbing repetition of those markers, receding to a vanishing point at the horizon.
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