Tomb Entrances cont.

I liked those entrances so much I went back and looked more closely at the source book.  Here's another entrance, flanked by lions:

Apparently, one of those entrances was an imagined reconstruction based on sculpture fragments, the other two (including today's) I couldn't find online.  But the third is a Temple to Mita in Midas Şehri.  More info here.  Here's a current pic:

and one with a person for scale, it's 17 meters high:

The Great Mosque of Djenné

The largest adobe building in the world. When I think of buildings built using mud, I think squat, even squalid, this Mosque in Mali is the opposite.


This post on Neatorama has a tourist's video that gives you a nice sense of the building as a place in a living community.