For #ancientsitesunday this stunning aerial view of the Parco degli Acquedotti, south east of #Rome. The park is named for its seven aqueducts which supplied the city with water.
#AncientSiteSunday: the mortuary temple of #Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri. The temple is located on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, close to the Valley of the Kings. Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, she reigned from ca. 1473-1458 BC.
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A fantastic aerial photo of the #Giza plateau: the #pyramids are not nearly as remote as many people think. Nowadays they are flanked on three sides by the roads and neighborhoods of Giza, one of #Egypt's largest cities.
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Finally, the aqueduct of Segovia 🇪🇸 made it there even after a cancelled flight lead to a 400km diversion, a particularly special survivor from antiquity
8/ Not quite as far away with this one, & while a first time in Chester 🏴 might not seem quite as exciting as some of the others on this list, as well as the amphitheatre & walls, managed to at last complete my punch card of Norman Cathedrals in England 😊
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This was a major goal: see Mousa Broch 🏴
a living miracle that a ~2000 y/o tower in the British Isles is still standing basically intact
A long way to go but worth every second
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A first time in Istanbul & with all the episodes we're making on the Venetians, Byzantines & others, seemed mad that we hadn't seen #Constantinople or the Hagia Sophia yet
3/ getting out into the Cyclades & Santorini was itself a massive thrill, but seeing the bronze age settlement of Akrotiri & its frescoes was a major bucket list tick
For #AncientSiteSunday the #Hellenistic theatre at Pergamon, #Turkey, built in the 3rd century BC, alterations were made in the #Roman period. It's one of the steepest known ancient theatres. The capacity was about 10,000 spectators.
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3/3 Ostrogothic #Ravenna,
opposite the much more famous baptistery (see previous post) the Basilica Spirito Santo is another structure comissioned by Theoderic & despite the porch added in c16, surviving 1500 years pretty much as-originally designed
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more Ostrogothic #Ravenna with the Arian baptistry containing one of the cities most iconic mosaics
late c5 / early c6 comissioned by Theoderic
#AncientSiteSunday & a chance to show off more of the Ostrogothic Survivors from #Ravenna
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beginning with the 'Palace of Theoderic' [although the exact function of the building remains unclear]
#AncientSiteSunday with the Faversham Stone chapel, Kent
A Saxon core & later medieval layers with even a section of roman masonry from its original foundation as either a Romano British temple or Mausoleum
#AncientSiteSunday & was unreasonably excited to see this - the recreated neolithic sweet track from the Avalon Marshes
The original built in around 3800BC to cross the waterlogged landscape
#AncientSiteSunday with Glastonbury Tor
As we were driving around the area, you can appreciate how significant this hill would've been in ancient times - you can see it for miles around, it dominates the landscape more than you might expect