Sunday, April 01, 2007

"East of the Sun, West of the Moon"

Masada National Park - Judean Desert - Israel - November 2006
@ ISO 100, f/13
At that era of time, the telegraph was yet to be invented, not to think about Sat phones or any cellular antenna to be erected...Pigeons, that was the name of the game at those days, and those mastered birds were trained to fly and deliver deciphered messages from isolated posts.
This is a remnant of a columbarium, the chamber that used the Romans to keep the birds together and also used it as a watch post until the outer wall was erected.

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