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Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia, Poros
Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia (Καλαύρεια), ancient Greek sanctuary on Poros island, Saronic Gulf; seat of a seven-state amphictyony and asylum where Demosthenes died in 322 BC; excavated by Swedes since 1894.
Sanctuary of Poseidon at Tainaron
Sanctuary of Poseidon at Tainaron (Cape Matapan), southernmost Greece: a temple of Poseidon in a sacred grove, an asylum for helots and slaves, mercenary base, and marble quarries; its reputed oracle of the dead is now disputed.
Sanctuary of Poseidon Hippios (Mantineia)
Sanctuary of Poseidon Hippios at Mantineia, Arcadia: an ancient sanctuary of Poseidon as Horse God, with an oak-log temple by Agamedes and Trophonios, a wool-thread interdict, Aipytos's blinding by an inland wave, and Hadrian's rebuilding.
Sanctuary of Ptah and Mertesger
Sanctuary of Ptah and Mertesger (Meretseger), a rock-cut shrine between Deir el-Medina and the Valley of the Queens at Thebes, dedicated to Ptah and the cobra goddess Meretseger; seven chapels, late 19th to 20th Dynasty, excavated by Schiaparelli and Bruyère.
Sanctuary of Ptoan Apollo
Sanctuary of Ptoan Apollo (Ptoion, Ἀπόλλωνός Πτώου τὸ ἱερόν): ancient oracular sanctuary of Apollo on Mt. Pelagia, Boeotia, near Akraiphnion; cult from the 8th century BCE, famous Archaic kouroi, Hellenistic tripod dedications, excavated since 1885.
Sanctuary of Sol Indiges
Sanctuary of Sol Indiges, ancient sanctuary of the old Roman sun god at the mouth of the Numicus river at Lavinium's seaport, tied to Aeneas' landing; first built c. 520 BC, rebuilt mid-Republican as a fortified enclosure.
Sanctuary of the Dioscouri at Athens
Anakeion (Ἀνάκειον), the Athenian sanctuary of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), worshipped as the Anakes; site of the Anakeia festival and prytaneion meal, a slave market per Demosthenes 45.80, with no securely located archaeological remains.
Sanctuary of the Egyptian gods (Nea Makri)
Sanctuary of the Egyptian gods at Brexiza (Mikro Elos), Nea Makri, Greece: a Roman sanctuary of Isis, Sarapis, and Horus founded by Herodes Atticus around 160 AD, with Egyptian-style pylons, colossal Osiris and Isis statues, and a navigable canal.
Sanctuary of the Muses
Sanctuary of the Muses (Mouseion of Helikon): ancient Greek sanctuary in the Valley of the Muses on Mount Helicon, Boeotia, near Ascra and Thespiai; home of the four-yearly Mouseia festival and linked to Hesiod.
Sanctuary of the Public Lares
Sanctuary of the Public Lares (Santuario dei Lari Pubblici), Pompeii VII.9.3: large roofless Forum sanctuary tied to civic Lares and imperial cult, marble-clad, excavated 1817, dating and identification debated.
Sanctuary of Truth
Sanctuary of Truth (Prasat Sut Ja-Tum, ปราสาทสัจธรรม), Pattaya, Thailand: all-wood, nail-free hand-carved museum begun 1981 by Lek Viriyaphan, about 105 m tall, still under construction, with day and night guided tours.
Sanctuary of Yanouh
The Sanctuary of Yanouh, also known as Mar Girios al-Azraq, is a Greco-Roman religious complex in the highlands of Mount Lebanon, about 30 km up the Adonis valley from Byblos.
Sanctuary of Zeus Aphesios (Megarid)
Sanctuary of Zeus Aphesios (Διός Ἀφεσίου ναός), ancient Megarian mountain sanctuary of Zeus the Releaser near Marmara, west of Megara; tied by Pausanias to Aiakos' drought-ending rain sacrifice and excavated c. 1890.
Sanctuary of Zeus Lykaios
Sanctuary of Zeus Lykaios, on Mt. Lykaion (Agios Elias), Arcadia: ancient Greek Zeus sanctuary with a Mycenaean-to-Hellenistic ash altar, secret sacrifices, Lykaion Games, and the Greek world's only visible hippodrome.
Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale
Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale is a British fantasy drama on AMC+ and Sundance Now, adapted by Debbie Horsfield from V.V. James's novel; season 1 (7 episodes) premiered January 4, 2024, season 2 (6 episodes) December 25, 2025, starring Elaine Cassidy and Hazel Doupe.
Sanctum (film)
Sanctum (2011) is a 3D cave-diving survival thriller directed by Alister Grierson, written by John Garvin and Andrew Wight, executive produced by James Cameron, starring Richard Roxburgh and Rhys Wakefield, inspired by Wight's 1988 Nullarbor Plain cave collapse.
Sanctus
The Sanctus (Epinikios Hymnos) is the "Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts" acclamation sung at the conclusion of the Preface in Christian Eucharistic Prayer, drawn from Isaiah 6:3.
Sanctus Real
Sanctus Real is an American Christian rock band formed in Toledo, Ohio, in 1996, with eight No. 1 Christian radio songs, two Grammy nominations, and a Dove Award.
Sand
Sand is granular material of mineral particles between 0.062 and 2 mm across, defined by grain size rather than composition, with quartz dominant in most sands.
Sand and Foam
Sand and Foam (رمل وزبد) is a 1926 book of aphorisms by the Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran, gathering several hundred sayings on love, life, death, and beauty.
Sand area
Sand area: a region where wind-blown sand accumulates, from sand patches to dune fields and sand seas (ergs). Forms where sediment supply, strong winds, and sparse vegetation coincide; over 5,000,000 km2 of dune sand, 99% desert.
Sand battery
A sand battery is a large-scale thermal energy storage system that stores renewable electricity as heat in sand for later use as hot water, steam, or hot air.
Sand casting
Sand casting, also called sand molded casting, is a metal casting process in which molten metal is poured into a mold formed in compacted sand.
Sand Castle (film)
Sand Castle (2017) is a Netflix war drama directed by Fernando Coimbra, written by Iraq veteran Chris Roessner, starring Nicholas Hoult as a soldier repairing a water system in Baqubah, Iraq, in 2003; mixed reviews (RT 47%, Metacritic 45).
Sand cat
Sand cat (Felis margarita), a small desert wild cat of North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Central Asia; only felid living primarily in true desert, IUCN Least Concern, two proposed subspecies.
Sand cat swarm optimization
Sand cat swarm optimization (SCSO) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm, introduced by Seyyedabbasi and Kiani in 2022, that mimics sand cats' hearing and digging to solve continuous global optimization problems.
Sand collar
Sand collar (egg collar): the egg mass of moon snails (Naticidae), made of mucus, sand, and thousands of egg capsules; distinct microbiota, bacillimidazole A in 62%, hatches into veliger larvae.
Sand Corona
Sand Corona is a 181 km diameter corona and arachnoid on Venus at 41.7°N, 15.5°E on Bereghinya planitia, IAU-named in 2003 for novelist George Sand, formerly Sand Patera.
Sand Creek massacre
Sand Creek massacre: November 29, 1864 attack by 675 Colorado volunteers under Colonel John Chivington on about 750 Cheyenne and Arapaho people at Big Sandy Creek, Colorado Territory, killing over 230, mostly women, children, and elderly; commemorated since 2007 by Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site.
Sand dollar
Sand dollars (Clypeasteroida), flattened disc-shaped irregular sea urchins of sandy shallow coasts; white bleached tests resemble coins; lunules resist currents; examples Dendraster excentricus and Mellita quinquiesperforata.