Uncommon Odysseys

07/01/2024

The Ancient City Beneath the Acropolis Museum in Athens...Greece ...

The Acropolis Museum is a modern, state of the art facility, with its newest gallery space taking you down into the streets of Early Byzantine Athens, built over the remains of an ancient Athenian neighbourhood dating back to 4000 years BC. The remains of this neighbourhood, uncovered during the excavations to lay the foundation for the Acropolis Museum, show a place that was teeming with life for centuries. Archaeologists, as they peeled back the earth, exposed a honeycomb of walls, streets, alleys, houses, baths and workshops, some as far down as five meters or more below present ground level.

19/12/2023

22/10/2023

The ancient Greek Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, built between 444–440 BC, is one of the main monuments of the Golden Age of Athens. It rises above the sea at a height of almost 60 m.

02/10/2023

The Parthenon frieze, Acropolis, Greece, 5th c. BC

©Costas Lakafossis
Credit:

21/09/2023

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙰𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚃𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚝 𝙳𝚎𝚕𝚙𝚑𝚒𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙽𝚘𝚠, 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝟻𝚝𝚑 𝙲𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚢 𝙱𝙲 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢
(Quote from Naru Parmar)

17/09/2023

La sede degli Augustali, Herculaneum.
📷 .panza

05/09/2023

Il Teatro Antico di Herculaneum è ufficialmente riaperto! 💛 Ogni martedì, giovedì e sabato fino al 25 novembre, i nostri visitatori potranno trasformarsi in veri e propri esploratori con caschi, mantelline e torce alla scoperta di questo emozionante monumento!. Ecco tutte le informazioni per l'accesso ed i biglietti 👉 https://ercolano.beniculturali.it/oraricontatti/ Vi aspettiamo!
Foto Pier Paolo Metelli – artem

23/08/2023

Ephesus ancient city in Turkey.

04/08/2023

04/08/2023

Ancient Roman mosaic floor in Sardinia, Italy

04/08/2023

Pantheon of Rome, world's largest unreinforced concrete dome with 1900 years. Each 21 of April (date for the founding of Rome), the rays of the sun pass through the oculus illuminating the main gate.

31/07/2023

29/07/2023

The possible whereabouts of Rome's Teatro di Nerone was always a mystery - until its surprise discovery left a team of archaeologists "astonished".

28/07/2023

Rome's next luxury hotel has some very good bones: Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero's Theater, an imperial theater referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found, have been discovered under the garden of a future Four Seasons Hotel steps from the Vatican.

20/07/2023

Colosseum and the great nymphaeum of Claudium, 360 panorama.

Today it is a panoramic view of a street just next to the Colosseum. The back facade of the platform of the temple of Divine Claudius faced the street, and it was decorated with a huge nymphaeum, richly embellished with marbles and statues. Opposite to it you can see the Ludus Gallicus buildings. At one end of the street you see the Amphitheater, and at the other, the arches of Aqua Claudia branch, which crossed Caelian hill and reached the Palatine hill and its palaces.