🔎The Enigma Realm🔍 - What the actual?? 👀

David Roberts reached this ancient Temple on 7th May 1838 and wrote in his journal "This is, perhaps, the most elaborate work, as well as the most exquisite in its detail, of anything of its kind in the world. The pencil can convey but a faint idea of its beauty. One scroll alone, of acanthus leaves, with groups of children and panthers intertwined, might form a work of itself. Even independently of the beauty of the sculpture, and its excellent preservation, we are lost in wonder at the size of the stones, and at the nature of the machinery by which such masses were raised. Earthquakes have shaken this extraordinary remnant; but from the magnitude of the blocks which form the lintel, the central one, being wedge-shaped, has slipped only so far as to break away a portion of the blocks on either side, and thus remain suspended. "But its effect is injured by a wall which crosses the eastern Portico, and within a few feet of the doorway, so that the spectator is forced to look at it almost directly upwards. An eagle…