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Guy Le Strange, The Round City in the Time of Mansur, Oxford University Press, 1900

A depiction of Baghdad shortly after its foundation in the eighth century CE, when it was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. An interior cutaway of…

Tags: Abbasid, Baghdad, Iraq, Mansur, Palace, Walls

Gromelle Grand Angle, Orange Theatre, 26 November 2007

The Orange Theatre in southern France was built in the last part of the first century CE. The structure still maintains its original scaenae frons,…

Tags: City, Culture, Drama, Entertainment, France, Late Antiquity, Orange, Orange Theatre, Performance, Performance Space, Roman Culture, roman empire, Theater, Theatre, Urbanism

Google Earth, Carthage (Google Earth), 2017

Satellite imaging of the port at Carthage, one of the biggest hubs of commerce in Late Antiquity.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Carthage, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, Harbor, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Mediterranean, North Africa, Port, roman empire, Trade, Urbanism, water

Google Earth, Google Earth View of Tyre Hippodrome, Accessed 29 November 2017

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Athletics, Byzantium, Circus, Cities, City, Competition, Early Middle Ages, Entertainment, Fall of Rome, Google Earth, Greece, Hippodrome, Horse Racing, late antique, Late Antiquity, Lebanon, Medieval, Monuments, Race Track, Racing, Roman Culture, roman empire, Spectacle, Sports, Tyre, Urbanism

Google Earth, Google Earth View of the Baths of Diocletian, Rome, Google Earth, Accessed 28 November 2017

The Baths of Diocletian in Rome, today.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, baths, Byzantium, Cities, Diocletian, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Google Earth, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, roman empire, Rome, Thermae, Urbanism, water

Google Earth, Google Earth View of Imperial Baths, Trier, Google Earth, Accessed 17 November 2017

The current Google Earth view of the ruins of the Imperial Baths in Trier, Germany.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, baths, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Germany, Google Earth, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, roman empire, Thermae, Trier, Urbanism, water

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, An 18th or 19th century sketch of the Forum of Trajan., Wikimedia Commons, 18th-19th Century

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, roman empire, Society, Trajan, Urbanism

Ggia, The Column of Marcian, Wikimedia Commons, December 24th 2011

The Column of Marcian as it stands on a main thoroughfare in Istanbul today.

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

GentiBehramaj, Detail of the Byzantine Forum in Durres, Albania., Wikimedia Commons, August 25th 2015

Tags: Albania, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, Forums, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, roman empire, Urbanism