The #ruins of an #ancient #roman house, with staircase and marble floor, as well as two collapsed statues, underneath Palazzo Valentini. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #ancientrome #romanhistory

The #ancient #roman temple of Castor and Pollux at Cori. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome

One of the #ancient sculptures from the attic storey of the forum of Nerva representing different provinces of the #roman empire. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome

Part of the paving and bronze letters of the #ancient meridian or horologium laid out by the #roman emperor Augustus and relaid by Domitian in the Campus Martius. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome

A series of #ancient #roman river barges from the mouth of the Tiber excavated near Fiumicino airport now in Museo delle Navi. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #ancientrome #romanhistory

The so-called ancient temple of Hercules at the #roman city of Cori in Lazio south of #rome. #archaeology #ancientrome #romanhistory #architecturalhistory #ancienthistory

A colourful #ancient #mosaic with parrots from a tomb at the #roman necropolis at Isola Sacra near Portus outside #rome. #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome

🏺 #MonsClaudianus: Where Rome's grandest monuments were born

Walk the same desert quarry roads that supplied stone for Hadrian's Villa and Diocletian's Palace. This remote outpost housed 1000+ workers quarrying rare Egyptian quartz.

See:
🔹 Unfinished temple ruins
🔹 Roman garrison fortress
🔹 Ancient waystations on the Nile road
🔹 Daily life recorded in pottery #ostraca

#RomanHistory #Archaeology #AncientEgypt #MaterialCulture #HistoricSites #ClassicalStudies #DesertArchaeology #AncientQuarries

Two #ancient #roman unfinished sarcophagi in the Baths of Diocletian #rome. #archaeology #ancientrome #romanhistory #ancienthistory

The recently restored #ancient #roman tomb on the via tiburtina. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome

Today marks the legendary founding of Rome April 21, 753 BCE when Romulus laid the first stones of the Eternal City. That makes today 2778 AUC (Ab urbe condita). From myth to empire, it all began with a plow. #FoundingOfRome #RomanHistory

The #ancient, late antique opus sectile #marble floor of the #roman senate house. #rome #archaelogy #ancienthistory #ancientrome #romanhistory

Part of the entablature of the #ancient #roman temple of Castor and Pollux, in the museum of the Forma Urbis. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome #architecturalhistory

Inside the #ancient arches of the podium of the #roman temple of Claudius. #rome #archaelogy #ancientrome #romanhistory #ancienthistory

An #ancient #roman Corinthian capital in the #roman forum, #rome. #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome

One of the large #ancient dining courts in the imperial palace the domus Augustana on the Palatine Hill, #rome. #archaeology #ancientrome #ancienthistory #romanhistory

An #ancient #roman column shaft of pink Egyptian granite and a mutilated capital, reused and embedded in a later wall next to a bar. #rome #ancientrome #romanhistory #ancienthistory #archaeology

The remains of an #ancient #roman nymphaeum decorated with coloured glass, shells and pebbles in the so-called House of Augustus on the Palatine Hill in #rome. #archaeology #ancienthistory #ancientrome #romanhistory

A partially preserved #ancient calendar painted onto the wall of a #roman residence underneath the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, showing the month of September with people picking produce from the trees. #rome #archaelogy #ancientrome #romanhistory #ancienthistory