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Appian Way, Mike Yardley News and Travel, 2013

Leading from the Porta San Sebastiano, one of the 18 gates of the Aurelian Wall, is the famous Via Appia. Though built in the fourth-century BCE, the…

Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, Interior

Chris 73, Baths of Caracalla, Rome

A cargo worker at Ostia, 2017

The relief is currently a part of the collection of the Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian), inv. number 56425.

McKay Savage, El Djem Tunisia Amphitheatre, 23 December 2012

Built during the first part of the third century CE, this large amphitheater features subterranean structures and limestone seating.

Petar Milosevic, Detail of Mosaic of Justinian and Theodora, 27 April 2015

This image is a side by side detailed comparison of the mosaics of Justinianus I and Theodora from the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Itlay.

Living Late Antiquity team, The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 2009

A close-up of the tiling on the Dome of the Rock, Jeruaalem, from the Noble Sanctuary, the site of the Second Temple.

Jan Van Vilet, San Lazaro Aqueduct, 2016

A photograph of the San Lazaro Aqueduct with a playground nearby.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, aqueduct, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, mergovia, Monument, playground, roman empire, san lazaro, spain, Urbanism, water, Water management

A bath room at Bet Shean, ancient Scythopolis, 2009

The heating system underneath the bath floor; it was raised on brick tiles to permit warm air to circulate underneath it. The baths had an array of…

Ggia, Detail of the Column of Marcian, Wikimedia Commons, 2011

A close up view of the base of the Column of Marcian.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Column, Constantinople, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Istanbul, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Marcian, Medieval, Monument, Politics, roman empire, Rome, Society, Turkey, Urbanism