Aerial photo of Temple of Zeus, Nemea.

Vintage aerial photograph of the toppled column drums of the Temple of Zeus, Nemea, Greece. Taken in the 1920's showing only 2 columns and a connecting epistyle, or architrave. Nemea was a religious sanctuary in the northern Peloponnese of Greece where pan-Hellenic athletic games were held every two years from 573 BCE until 271 BCE. Architectural remains at the site are dominated by the impressive Temple of Zeus constructed c. 330 BCE. This was built on the site of an earlier temple from the 6th century BC which was destroyed by fire. The wooden and terracotta tiled roof of the temple collapsed in the 2nd century CE and in the 5th century CE the majority of the columns collapsed, not by earthquake but by the removal of blocks from the stylobate. Several columns have been re-erected in modern times using largely the original drums which still lie scattered around the site., by DAVID PARKER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY