☀️ This is the Arch of Orange - it stood on the Via Agrippa to honour legionaries who conquered Gaul, then Tiberius had it renewed to celebrate victories over German tribes. During the Middle Ages, the arch became part of the town wall, which allowed it be exceptionally well preserved. 📸 Own pics.
This is basically a recreation of a photo I took maybe six or seven years ago. As fortune would have it, I’m even wearing basically the same outfit 😅 Augustus remains unchanged.
On this day in 1657, Robert Brown died. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Ballyprior, Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/brown1657
Detail from the one of my favourite ancient Roman mosaics. There’s tentacles galore to enjoy here as well as many different examples of marine life 🐟🐙🦑🦐
I'd say Herculaneum did, because it's a less popular site and very well preserved. Although seeing the food stall remains at Pompeii and going back to Naples to have Pizza gave me pause.
We saw Herculaneum the day before we went back. When we were waiting for the train we had pizza at the small place at the top of the hill. So I feel I reflected more on the people and the lost history there.
It's clear people like archaeology. It's just big time Netflix producers gatekeep & prefer fantastical claims to solid archaeology based on up-to-date methods
@FlintDibble@archaeodons you are so right. WE need to be extra careful to let people know that we base our work on the archaeological evidence and the careful assessment of it. I suspect that is not good enough to destroy the anti-science crew, but we need to keep emphasising our point.
(By the way, Flint, did you happen to see my DM to you?)