New post this week on Sirmium! The ancient city became a focal point of activity starting in the 3rd century CE as an imperial capital and birthplace of a number of emperors. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

This week, the fourth and final part on ancient Salona! Things wrap up with some sites outside of the archaeological park, including a necropolis, city gate, and early Christian basilica. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

New post this week! The third of four parts on ancient Salona, which includes the forum area with the city's theater as well as the amphitheater in the western extent of the city: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

New post this week, Part II on ancient Salona! This post gets into the late core of the site; originally extramural, it was enclosed in a new circuit of walls in the late 2nd century CE. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

A dog’s paw print on a Roman clay tile 🐾 🐕 😍 About 2,000 years-ago, a dog made its mark for ‘pawsterity’ when it wandered across the wet tile laid out to dry before firing. From Richborough Roman fort 📷 by me #TilesonTuesday #Archaeology

This stunning head is part of a life-sized, free-standing sculpture and exemplifies an idealized portrayal of a ruler. This head has been attributed to Pharaoh Amasis (570-526 BC), who ascended to the throne through a military revolt. His rule then brought a new era of peace to the country. 📷 me 🏺

The remains of the north gateway of Milecastle 37, just west of Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall

New post this week starting a new series on (Colonia Martia Julia Valeria) Salona! The colony was established by Caesar in 47 BCE, and would later be the birthplace of Diocletian: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

I just leave this for #PhallusThursday: A Roman oil lamp featuring an inscription and a phallus. The inscription reads "ne atigas non sum tua marci sum" (don't touch me! I'm not yours; I belong to Marcus'). From the Esquiline necropolis in Rome, 2nd century BC 📷 me (Musei Capitolini) 🏺

Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall

Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany. The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

New post, the fifth and final part on ancient Kos! This post focuses on the famed Asclepieion, located a few kilometers outside the ancient city and active through the Roman period. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

This bronze head of a goddess with her spooky, hypnotic inlaid silver eyes, will be roaming the shadows tonight on All Hallows Eve! Still looking for her body, 2,000 years later … 😱 🏺 1/ Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum 📸 me

Roman glass cups with colourful enamel decoration of animals from the Roman arena. AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished graves in Denmark. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Happy #Halloween This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper #RomanArchaeology

Some of the extensive remains of Roman Corbridge in Northumberland. A wonderful site with a great museum. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Corbridge #Northumberland

A terracotta bust of a girl wearing a crescent-shaped pendant, known as a lunula, which was typically worn by females. Lunula pendants were believed to possess apotropaic qualities, meaning they were intended to ward off evil. The moon was a symbol associated. ..🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

This remarkable bronze cobra with eyes inlaid with glass paste likely originated from a workshop in Alexandria. The cobra motif is prevalent in Egyptian iconography, symbolizing royal authority and safeguarding against the Pharaoh's enemies. The Greek author Plutarch indicates that...🧵1/2 📷me 🏺

#RomanSiteSaturday; A new post this week, part IV of the ongoing series on ancient Kos. The current installment finishes up the main town with the northern agora and harbor area. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺 #InternationalArchaeologyDay

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm). Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility. Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom. 📷Metropolitan Museum 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth. Carved in wood, painted. Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC. 📷 Royal Ontario Museum 🏺

New post this week, part three on ancient Kos! This week continues through the reconstructed Casa Romana before detailing the adjacent remnants of the southern area of the agora. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Cirencester was the Roman Corinium, second only to London in size with 10,000 inhabitants. Its amphitheatre was one of the largest in Britain. It was built in the early 2nd century and it could hold c. 8,000 spectators. It was fortified against Saxon invaders. #RomanSiteSaturday

A short section of the late 3rd century AD stone wall encircling the #Roman Town of CORINIVM DOBVNNORVM (Cirencester) with projecting polygonal tower Originally extending for 2 miles (3.2 km), enclosing an area of 240 acres (97 ha), this is the only bit exposed today 📷 Oct 2025 #RomanSiteSaturday

The Roman camp of Raedykes near Stonehaven is one of the best preserved in Scotland. It covers around 38 hectares and has an irregular outline. Probably built in the late 1st century, by the 1700s it was being associated with the elusive site of the battle of Mons Graupius. #RomanSiteSaturday

For #RomanSiteSaturday, here's the remains of the Basilica of the Five Martyrs in Salona, Croatia It was built in the 4th century AD above the graves of five priests killed in Diocletian's persecution of the Christians 📸 Mine #archaeology #ancientbluesky #romanempire #photooftheday🏺

#RomanSiteSaturday Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and #Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the #Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Salhiyé, in present-day #Syria. #Archaeology #History

#RomanSiteSaturday & Serdica: what is now Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬 contains a lot of Roman remains including this early c4 church, built in the ruins of what was formerly a baths See more of Sofia in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EptH...

#RomanSiteSaturday The Vicus Caprarius archaeological site, known as the “City of Water,” is an underground complex in #Rome located near the Trevi Fountain. An insula, a domus and medieval dwellings coexist in this space More here: romeandbeyond.altervista.org/vicus-caprar... #archaeology #history

The remains of the Roman amphitheater at Cirencester (Corinium). Built during the 2nd century AD, it is estimated that the amphitheater would have held around 8000 people. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Cirencester

New post this week, part two on ancient Kos! This week's post details the large Western Archaeological Zone with its mosaics and frescos as well as the city's 1st-2nd century CE odeon. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#MosaicMonday From last week's post on ancient Kos, a 2nd-3rd century CE mosaic depicting Asclepius arriving on Kos. He is greeted by a Koan as Hippocrates sits nearby. Archaeological Museum of Kos. More here: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Two adorable Egyptian figurines: a roaring hippo and a baby hippo, dating ca 1,800 BC. Hippos were associated with life and rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful #Celtic glass bracelets found in the surroundings of Bern, Switzerland. Dating around 200 BC. To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone. Bernisches Historisches Museum. 🏺 #archaeology

#RomanSiteSaturday The great baths of Mactaris, a old Phoenician town in Tunisia that eventually became a Roman colony These baths are some of the best preserved in all of North Africa. Walls rise to 15m and #mosaics still line the floors! 📸 Mine #archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺

It's #RomanSiteSaturday & we've had a pretty great summer of getting around Roman Britian, with that in mind - think it might be time for a bit of a thread-of-threads 🧵👇 🏺AncientBluesky

New post last week on the ancient city of Kos! The first in a five part series explores the history, museum, and sites in the northwest of the city. Bonus cat for #Caturday in picture 4. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

For #MosaicMonday the mosaic in the so-called winter triclinium of the #Roman villa at Antandros. A kantharos and birds are depicted in the centre of the mosaic. The villa dates back to the 4th c. AD. Antandros is located in the ancient Troas region,... 🧵 1/2 🏺 #archaeology

Attention #ClassicsBlueSky, #AncientBlueSky, or anyone who just loves myth and history: What kind of stickers or shirt designs would you want? I’m itching to make some fun designs but am having a bit of art block! Any suggestions would be considered and any help appreciated!

For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called....🧵1/2 📷 Rami Rizk 🏺 #archaeology

#OnThisDay - 23 August - in AD 93 Gnaeus Julius Agricola died in his fifty-fourth year: "though snatched away in the mid-career of his prime, he lived to a ripe old age measured by renown" (Tacitus, Agricola 44.3). #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIB 2.3.2434.1 [ILS 8704a]; Grosvenor Museum, Chester

New post this week, the second and final part on Colonia Caesar Augusta (modern Zaragoza). Included this week, parts of the form, baths, sewers, and the city fortification walls. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

For #ancientsitesunday this stunning aerial view of the Parco degli Acquedotti, south east of #Rome. The park is named for its seven aqueducts which supplied the city with water. Photo: Valentino Ligori #archaeology 🏺

#RomanSiteSaturday and #WorldHoneyBeeDay; the Xemxija apiary in northern Malta. Originally constructed in the Punic-Roman period, it may have first functioned as tombs before later being repurposed as an apiary. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

New post last week on Colonia Caesar Augusta, which became modern Zaragoza, Spain. The first of two parts starts off with the Museo de Zaragoza and the archaeological area of the ancient theater: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

For #ReliefWednesday this week, a small lead votive tablet depicting imagery associated with the Danubian Horseman. Displayed in the National Museum Požarevac (Serbia) and found at the nearby site of Viminacium. Dated to the 2nd-3rd century CE. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

For #MosaicMonday, a mosaic depicting the abduction of Europa by Zeus in the guise of a bull. In situ at the House of Mosaics in Sparta. Dated to the 3rd century CE. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

#AncientSiteSunday; the Minoan peak sanctuary site on Mount Juktas (Psili Korfi), just outside modern Archanes. It seems to have been constructed around 2100-2000 BCE and was likely associated with the palace at Knossos, 6.5 kilometers to the north. #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

For #AncientSiteSunday let's go to Leptis Magna on the coast of Libya. It's one of the best preserved #Roman cities. The city was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians. In Roman times it became one of the most important...🧵 1/2 🏺 #archaeology

#OnThisDay - 10 August - in AD 7 a public holiday was decreed to honour the establishment of altars to Mother Ceres and Augustan Ops. Dio (55.31.6) notes that there was unrest in Rome due to famine at this time. 🏺 Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1242). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...