The Divine Archives

Archive/The Pilgrimage

Walkable sacred sites

The Pilgrimage

Step through the golden portal in the museumStep through a portal from the museum’s Rotunda and walkrsquo;s entrance hall and walk inside the places themselves, modelled from published surveys. Each holds copies of its relics, linked to the Vault and to the chapters. Sites open one or two at a time.

Every site is our own model. No one else’s photographs or 3D scans are used; published plans and measurements are references only. What is measured, what is approximate and what is unknown is said on site, by the same evidence standard as the chapters.

  • Reconstruction Lost or destroyed: what you walk is a labelled reconstruction.
  • Claimed site A claimed or traditional site: the dispute over it is shown on site.
  • Exterior only Religiously restricted or sensitive: shown from outside only.

The Rotundacomparative themes

  • ComingClaimed site

    Mount Ararat & the Ark tradition

    Chapters: The Flood

Era I · Prehistorybefore c. 3500 BCE

Era II · The Bronze Agec. 3300 – 1200 BCE

Era III · The Early Iron Agec. 1200 – 550 BCE

Era IV · The Axial Agec. 800 BCE – 200 CE

Era V · Late Antiquityc. 200 – 800 CE

Era VI · The Early Medievalc. 800 – 1100 CE

Era VII · The High Medievalc. 1100 – 1500 CE

Era VIII · The Early Modernc. 1500 – 1800 CE

Era IX · The Modern Agec. 1800 – present

The way in: the museum, through the golden portal in its entrance hall. See the methodology for the sourcing standard.