A few years ago we read about a vineyard where people had been digging. They discovered a vineyard that was well preserved. At least with a vineyard above there is no chance of a plow or other tool damaging the mosaic....
Posts tagged “Archeology Tweets”
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Vineyard Mosaic In Italy — Feb 18, 2022
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The Romans in Croatia — Feb 15, 2022When you walk in specific European cities you find that history is either very visible, or hidden just beneath the surface. In Rome and other places, every time someone digs they find ruins. As in the images below we see that the same is true, in this instance of Hvar, in Croatia. Imagine how many tens of thousands of people have walked along this street, without realising that there were mosaics....
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The Pont Flavien near Toulouse — Mar 11, 2022Not too far from Aix en Provence you can find a Roman bridge with two arches under which to pass as you cross. I expect that the stones from others were quarried and so this is the last surviving example. If we check the sources we might find mentions of more....
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Spoonley Wood Roman Villa and Mosaic — Feb 14, 2022Roman remains may be found and excavated but sometimes nature reclaims them. These ruins were discovered in 1882 but nature returned and hid them safely away again. Such tweets should inspire archeological departments, and film and TV or BA Media Studies to document the process of re-excavating these ruins, with photogrammetry and other modern tech used....
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Scotland's Roman Wall - Tweet — Feb 13, 2022When I started writing about the Roman civilisation in the summer of 1996 content was still new on the web. Wikipedia didn’t exist and we still relied on books and encyclopedias. We still had to visit ruins and more. Today the web has matured to such an extent that you can find tweets about the Roman civilisation every day. This means that history is not updated when books or newspaper articles come out. It is updated on a weekly, or even hourly basis. The beauty of tweets, as opposed to blog posts or articles, is that you can share snippets of information, as you get them....
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Mosaic - A Boy playing with Snakes — Mar 24, 2022https://twitter.com/romebyzantium/status/1506763741198753804?s=20&t=-u9MfueRudZgxdxBwvrX2g...
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Funerary Relief - Colourised — Feb 17, 2022When we have seen hundreds of statues and other objects over the decades of our lives, it is easy to assume that statues and other objects are just statues, that they have no colour, but of course they did. What was just a relief becomes a 3d painting after colour is added. It brings sculptures and reliefs back to life....
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Cramond Tower in Scotland - Corner of a Roman Fort — Feb 13, 2022Cramond tower which sits on the corner of a Roman fort. Located in Cramond village, just outside Edinburgh, the tower reuses much of the stone from the fort #Roman #archaeology #scotland pic.twitter.com/1LunLTDZEn...
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Coastal Erosion and Archeology — Feb 20, 2022https://twitter.com/Artifacthub\_/status/1495172541152849923... -
Acropolis, seen from the Air — Mar 25, 2022https://twitter.com/tzoumio/status/1506901611368562688...
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A Lebanese Mosaic — Feb 14, 2022https://twitter.com/mikati\_rana/status/1490671950880022528...
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A Gladiator Mosaic at Santa Maria Nova — Feb 15, 2022I have walked more than once along the Via Appia but I don’t remember seeing this mosaic. It shows a gladiator with a trident. The name of a gladiator equipped in this manner is Retiarius. Next time you are on the Appian Way consider visiting this Roman Villa, along with the various catacombs....
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A 2000 Year old Greek Mosaic in Turkey — Feb 21, 2022I like archeological twitter because it shows us curiousities every day of the week, several times a day. I like the image of the mosaic below because you see that it was quite deep, and hidden. Imagine digging down and coming across such a sight and site....
