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Doug Boin, Apotropaic Amulet from Ostia, Second to Fourth Century, 2016

Dated somewhere between the second and fourth centuries, this apotropaic amulet from Ostia exemplifies the eclectic, pragmatic, and individual nature…

Tags: Amulet, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, Paganism, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism

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…

Carole Radatto, Artist's Interpretation of Circus of Camulodunum, Colchester UK, 21 February 2015

Tags: Artist, Athletics, Circus, City, Competition, England, Entertainment, Hippodrome, Late Antiquity, Model, Race Track, Racing, Roman Culture, roman empire, Spectacle, Sports, UK, Urbanism

Saffron Blaze, Aspendos Theatre, 8 December 2011

One of the best-preserved theatres of Late Antiquity, the theatre in Aspendos, Turkey was built in 155 CE. Consequentially, it is an excellent…

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

Aurelian Wall, Rome, 2016

The largely intact remains of Honorius' early fifth-century enlargement of the Aurelian Wall.

Aurelian Wall, Rome, 2016

The Aurelian Wall at the Museo delle Mura (museum of the walls) which is housed in the first and second floors of the Porta San Sebastiano at the…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aurelian Wall, Borders, Byzantium, Cities, Defense, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism, Walls, War

Miguel Hermoso, Base of the Column of Antoninus Pius in Rome, Wikimedia Commons, May 18th 2011

Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, Interior

Chris 73, Baths of Caracalla, Rome

Marco Prins, Caesarea Aqueduct, 2017

Front facing shot of the aqueduct in Caesarea, Israel.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, aqueduct, Byzantium, Caesarea, Caesarea Aqueduct, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Israel, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Mediterranean, Monument, Near East, Politics, roman empire, Urbanism, water, Water management