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We organize Roman Team buildings but also 8-day tours accompanied by an archaeologist to the most important sites in and outside Rome and Pompeii, Eno-gastronomical tours, Archaeological sailing trips and Geological tours all superbly planned and executed

09/05/2024

Santa Maria Maggiore Rome May 2024

07/01/2024

8 ways to divide Italy😱🤣

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07/01/2024

A slice of England's iconic A303 road shows how it changed over thousands of years.

07/01/2024

The Nabataeans were an ancient Semitic people, dating back to 586 BC, who inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Levant. The desert climate created agricultural difficulties for the Nabataeans

07/01/2024

In the 1920s, Leonard Woolley, a British archaeologist, led a series of excavations at Ur, a city that held great significance in the history of Mesopotamia. As Woolley and his team carefully unearthed the remnants of this ancient civilization, they made a remarkable discovery beneath the city streets – a network of remarkably well-preserved 4,000 year old drains.

These ancient drains were not just ordinary channels for wastewater; they represented an advanced system of urban infrastructure that demonstrated the Sumerians' impressive engineering and architectural capabilities. The careful construction and maintenance of these drains provided a glimpse into the high level of sophistication achieved by the ancient society of Ur.

By meticulously documenting and studying these drains, Woolley was able to offer valuable insights into the daily life and urban planning of the Sumerians. The presence of such an advanced drainage system indicated the Sumerians' understanding of sanitation and public health, as well as their mastery of water management techniques.

06/01/2024

🔸Salavator Mundi: Bernini's Final Work.

In 1679, at the grand old age of 80, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) completed his final sculpture, the bust of Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World).

Gian Lorenzo Bernini died on December 7th, 1680; he is buried in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome.

Bernini's bust of Salvator Mundi is on display in the church of San Sebastiano fuori le Mura, in Rome.

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16/11/2023

A Roman “hologram” effect ring found in the grave of 1st century AD noblewoman, Aebutia Quarta. The ring is thought to depict her son, Titus Carvilius Gemello, who passed away at age of 18. Found at the Grottaferrata necropolis close to Rome.

01/11/2023

6000 years old. This axe is made from Jadeite and has been brought from high in the north Italian Alps. The stone has been analysed by researchers from the international Project Jade and they have located the actual boulder from which it is made.

The axe was brought to Britain by people from one of the earliest farming communities around 4000 BC, which gives us a date of 6000 years old.

Jadeite is harder than steel, and it is thought it took over 1000 hours to make. I am led to believe that it was placed in a spring or in the River Avon perhaps as an offering to the gods.
This beautiful axe is in the Wiltshire Museum, Devizes.

Neolithic roads here - https://ruralhistoria.com/2023/06/19/neolithic-trackways/

27/10/2023

Acropolis of Athens. Then and now. 👀

07/10/2023

Remains of the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine in the Roman Forum in Rome. Built between 308-312 CE, the 35 metres high basilica was the largest building in the Forum (with an area of about 5,600 square meters), and the last Roman basilica built in the city

07/10/2023

Achaemenid gold applique of a winged bull, Iran, reign Artaxerxes III, ca. 404-359 BCE.

07/10/2023

Imagine being able to turn stone into wet silk.
"Undine Rising From the Waters" by American sculptor Chauncey Bradley Ives (1880) is a masterpiece of neo-classical illusionistic sculpture.
The artist took on one of the hardest tasks imaginable - carving from solid marble the rippling wet gown of the "Undine" as she rises up from the water.
According to medieval lore, undines were Mediterranean sea spirits who lived as soulless mortals. Baron Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué’s 19th century novel "Undine" popularized the story of a water spirit gaining human form by marrying a mortal knight.
When her husband is unfaithful, the laws of the water spirits force her to kill him. The sculpture depicts the moment when the mournful Undine, cloaked in a delicate veil, rises from the water to claim her husband’s life.

07/10/2023

Cameo of the Emperor Augustus. It used to be decorated with a golden laurel wreath.

07/10/2023

🔸A geometric amphora with a battle scene including a chariot. 8th century BCE.

📸 Archaeological Museum of Paros, Greece.

07/10/2023

When archaeologists came across a tin containing an unknown 2000-year-old ointment they were both pleased and bemused. It was not discovered in a home as one might think, but rather near an ancient Roman temple in London.

07/10/2023

🔸Minoan Vase (1450 BC), Carved from Rock Crystal, from Zakros in south-eastern Crete, Greece. Zakros (Kato Zakros) was 4h largest Minoan settlement after Knossos, Phaistos and Malia.

📸 Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete

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Walk the Appia with us, our new 8 day tour will go from Rome to Benevento exploring the best parts of the Appia with at the last day a visit to Pompeii. We have walked the Appia last year in our Roman gear and on Roman Galigae