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Douglas Boin, The Late Roman Walls at Conímbriga, Portugal, 2019

Ancient Conímbriga, about 12 miles (approximately 20 kilometers outside Coimbra, Portugal) was a Roman town that flourished under the Flavians and…

Tags: Conímbriga, Homes, Portugal, Suebi, Visigoths, Walls

DuiMDog, Circus in Gerasa, Jordan, 13 October 2007

Tags: Athletics, Chariot, Circus, City, Competition, Culture, Entertainment, Hippodrome, Horse Racing, Jordan, Race Track, Racing, Roman Culture, roman empire, Spectacle, Sports, Urbanism

duimdog, Theatre in Sabratha Libya, 10 May 2009

Tags: City, Culture, Entertainment, late antique, Libya, North Africa, Performance, Performance Space, Roman City, roman empire, Sabratha, Theatre, Urban

Flapane, Amphitheatre at Pompeii, 12 April 2012

Although not late antique Pompeii's amphitheater, built around 70-65BCE, is the earliest surviving example of such a structure.

Tags: amphitheatre, Ancient, Arena, Athletics, City, Competition, Culture, Entertainment, Entertainment Space, Italy, Late Antiquity, Pompeii, Roman City, Roman Culture, roman empire, Spectacle, Spectator, Sports, Stadium, Urbanism

Franzfoto, Relief in Sabratha Theatre, November 2010

Tags: Architecture, Culture, Decoration, late antique, Performance Space, Relief, Sabratha, Stage, Stone, Theatre

GentiBehramaj, A 5th-7th Century Byzantine Forum in modern day Durres, Albania possibly attributed to the Emperor Anastasius., Wikimedia Commons, August 25th 2015

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

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

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

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

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