🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron
Archaic to Hellenistic (700–200 BCE) · Athenian (Ionic) — Artemis Brauronia
420 BCE Doric 6×11 with 44-m pi stoa where Athenian bear-girls (arktoi) danced initiation, Iphigenia myth.
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🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Archaic to Hellenistic (700–200 BCE) · Athenian (Ionic) — Artemis Brauronia
420 BCE Doric 6×11 with 44-m pi stoa where Athenian bear-girls (arktoi) danced initiation, Iphigenia myth.
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Preclassic 900 BCE–1000 CE (plazas 200–900 CE; jade tomb early 300 CE) · Maya (northern coastal Belize, Altun Ha polity, Lowland–Caribbean zone)
Coastal-plain trade port city controlling Caribbean shell, salt and jade routes near Rockstone Pond wetlands: twin Temple of the Masonry Altars (B4, 16 m high) with three altar superstructures and…