A Traveller in a Classical Land..... ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΑΥΤΟΝ Founder Hellene Travel, Retired HoD & Senior Examiner OCR....many moons ago....once excavated on Delos.
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Sarah retweeted
📍 Sakarya’da sürdürülen altyapı çalışmaları sırasında, üzerinde çok satırlı yazıtlar bulunan anıtsal boyutlarda bir taş blok ortaya çıkarıldı.
Grekçe veya Latince harflerle kaleme alınmış yazıtların yanı sıra taş bloğun alt bölümünde kıvrımlı mimari bezemeler ve volüt detayları dikkat çekiyor. İlk değerlendirmelere göre bloğun resmi, idari ya da anıt ve mezar kültüyle ilişkili bir işleve sahip olabileceği düşünülüyor.
Buluntunun tarihlendirilmesi ve işlevinin belirlenmesi, gerçekleştirilecek epigrafik ve teknik incelemelerin ardından netlik kazanacak.
Kaynak: İHA (30.10.2026)
Sarah retweeted
This is the kind of place you hear about before you ever find it! 🤍
Near Trikala, there's a church that's been sinking into the ground since a landslide in 2012 – and somehow, it's still standing. Tilted at 17 degrees, more than four times the lean of the Tower of Pisa. 🔔
This is Ropoto. Word of it has spread mostly by curiosity: traveller to traveller, photo to photo, until it became one of Thessaly's stranger landmarks.
Original moment belongs to stef_greece (IG)
#discovergreece #trikala #autumninthessaly #greekmainland
Archaeologists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Tomb Hidden Among the Seats of an Ancient Theater
The ancient city already had a designated cemetery, leaving researchers wondering why someone was buried in a theater that once held thousands of spectators
people.com/archaeologists-di…
Pompeii: Fake AI-Generated Images of the Eruption’s Victims—Gabriel Zuchtriegel Speaks Out rogueclassicism.com/?action=…
1,800-Year-Old Enameled Belt Ornaments Discovered in Ukrainian Forest
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Massive 4,000-Year-Old Walls Discovered at a Bronze Age Settlement Protected by Sheer Cliffs
An aerial view of La Almoloya, a Bronze Age settlement in southeastern Spain, perched on a rocky hilltop surrounded by steep cliffs.
arkeonews.net/massive-4000-y…
Ancient Greek gymnasiums were disappearing from civic life under Roman rule,.
Where did young men continue their lessons & public activities after traditional gymnasiums closed.
greekreporter.com/2026/10/29…
A 2,400-Year-Old Numidian House Built Against a Defensive Wall Shows How Carthage’s Neighbors Lived
labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…
A cupboard sealed for almost 2,000 years in Pompeii has yielded an intimate snapshot of one resident's life before Mount Vesuvius destroyed the ancient Roman city, from make-up utensils and perfume to coins, cooking pots and childhood amulets.
reuters.com/lifestyle/pompei…
Sarah retweeted
There is water under the Colosseum!
Emperor Vespasian (AD 69-79) ordered the construction of the Colosseum over Nero’s private lake. Nero (AD 54-68) had probably filled the area with water from the Aqua Claudia as part of his extravagant palace, the Domus Aurea (golden house).
Although it is a matter of academic debate, Emperor Vespasian’s sons and successors, Titus and Domitian, probably filled the Colosseum at least once during each of their reigns to stage naval battles (naumachia).
The amphitheater also seems to have been built on fluvial soil, and excavations of the hypogeum (the underground structure of tunnels beneath the arena) in 1811 and 1874 were halted because groundwater flooded the site. In the 1930’s, under Mussolini, vast resources were employed to solve this issue.
A 2020 study concluded that “four streams, now hidden by urbanization, flow toward the center of the Colosseum from the surroundings— Oppian-Esquiline hill, Caelian hill, Labicano Valley, and the Via dei Fori Imperiali.” What you see here is the channeled water of the Labicano stream.
📸 by me.
Sarah retweeted
What a hairdo! Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche, a Roman lady of the Flavian or Trajanic period, ca. AD 90-100.
In the collections of @metmuseum (inv. 1938 38.27). Photo is my own.
#reliefwednesday
ALT What a hairdo! Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche, a Roman lady of the Flavian or Trajanic period, ca. AD 90-100. In the collections of @metmuseum (inv. 1938 38.27). Photo is my own. #reliefwednesday
Sarah retweeted
Un exploit de la télé publique croate qui mérite d'être salué: le 29 octobre 2026, soit demain, sort le film le plus cher de son histoire: "Dioclétien, le dernier dieu romain" dd Božidar Domagoj Burić.
A noter que les dialogues sont en latin populaire, et un grand effort semble avoir été fait sur les tenues (sauf celles des femmes!) et les décors fin IIIe/ début IVe siècle !
Ce drame historique retrace l'ascension au pouvoir de l'empereur Dioclétien au milieu d'intenses conflits politiques et personnels à la cour de la Rome antique. Dioclétien est né en Dalmatie (actuelle Croatie) et règnera de 285 jusqu'à son abdication en 305 où il se retira malade dans son palais dalmate qui donnera la ville de Split. Il ne séjournera à Rome , lui préférant Nicomédie en actuelle Turquie : il n'appréciait ni la ville ni ses habitants!
Excellent militaire, ça sera aussi un grand réformateur de l'Etat, mais il est aussi connu à la fin de son règne par les terribles persécutions contre les chrétiens et manichéens dans la moitié orientale de l'Empire.
Espérons qu'une plateforme de streaming nous le proposera bientôt en France! Voir la bande annonce ⤵️
Hidden in the Spanish Pyrenees, the traces of a Roman gold rush: miners used water to move about 2 million cubic meters of earth
futura-sciences.com/en/hidde…
'Unique' Roman artefact on display at Worcestershire museum
An artefact believed to date back to the late Roman period has gone on display as part of an exhibition chronicling thousands of years of a village's history.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm4g…
The Bacchae: Company of Wolves takes Ewan Downie's solo show on an English tour
The Bacchae, Ewan Downie's solo retelling and the final work directed by the late Ian Spink, tours England from 2 March to 24 April 2027.
britishtheatre.com/posts/the…
