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Colosseum in Rome, 2014

Constructed by Emperor Vespasian on the previous site of the Emperor Nero's private lake, the Flavian Amphitheater, or Colosseum could seat 45-55,000…

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Colosseum Interior, 2014

Passageways and chambers existed below the Colosseum's arena floor. Here both gladiators and animals waited, ready to fight.

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Colosseum Interior 2, 2014

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Colosseum Restoration Inscription, 2016

Although built in 75 CE, Emperors and magistrates continued restoring the Colosseum throughout the Late Antique era. Inscriptions, such as this one,…

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Colosseum Restoration Inscription Detail, 2016

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Omar Sanadiki, Courtyard of the Great Mosque of Aleppo in 2016, during the Syrian Civil War, Reuters, 13 December 2016

Both the Great Mosque of Aleppo and the Great Mosque of Damascus were built in the same year: 715 CE. The structure in Damascus has been largely…

Tags: Aleppo, Islam, Mosque, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Umayyad

Cover of American Journal of Archaeology 105, no. 3

Glenn R. Storey, "Regionaries-Type Insulae 1: Architectural/Residential Units at Ostia" American Journal of Archaeology 105 no. 3 (July 2001):…

Cover of Expedition 53, no. 2

Pensabene, Patrizio and Enrico Gallocchio. "The Villa del Casale of Piazza Armerina." Expedition53, no. 2 (2011): 29-37.

Carole Raddato, Curved Stadium at Aphrodisias, 5 April 2015

In western Turkey, the stadium at Aphrodisias was built during the later first century CE. Its unique curved shape allowed the space to accommodate…

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Ana Munk, Dance of the Four Seasons Mosaic, Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, Caelian Hill, Rome, 2009

Created in the late 3rd century, after the consolidation of this domus but before the arrival of the pious senator Pammachius and his wife, this…