Rome in the Footsteps of an XVIIIth Century Traveller
Quand on aime la vie, on aime le passé
Marguerite Yourcenar - Les Yeux Ouverts
People who love life, also must love history
Huge images of wild animals have been projected on to St. Peter's Basilica to highlight the importance of conservation on December 8, the first day of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy
December 26, 2015
- A Residential Complex, Neighbourhood outside Porta Marina and a Directory of the Monuments of Ostia
December 19, 2015 - Decumanus Maximus from Horrea di Ortensio to Semita dei Cippi
and Decumanus Maximus from the Forum to Porta Marina
December 12, 2015 - Decumanus Maximus from the Forum to Cardo degli Aurighi,
Insula X of Regio III and Area between Via della Foce and Cardo degli Aurighi
December 8, 2015
(left) Festa dell'Immacolata in the time of smartphones; (right) the Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See in high uniform is waiting to greet Pope Francis
December 5, 2015 - Area around Tempio di Ercole and Area between Cardo Maximus and Via della Foce
November 28, 2015 - Forum and Southern Section of Cardo Maximus and
- A New Hall of Fame Quiz
November 21, 2015 - Campo della Magna Mater and Along Semita dei Cippi
November 14, 2015 - Decumanus Maximus: from Terme dei Cisiarii to Terme di Nettuno and Area between the Theatre and the Forum
November 11, 2015 - A New Hall of Fame Quiz
November 7, 2015 - Gates and Streets and Area near the Theatre
October 31, 2015 - Introduction and Porta Romana
October 24, 2015
- Paestum: Other Monuments, Houses and The Museum
October 17, 2015 - Paestum: The Temples and The Walls
October 10, 2015
- San Severino and Tolentino
October 3, 2015 - Civitanova and Macerata
September 26, 2015 - Fermo
September 19, 2015 - Ripatransone and Treia
September 12, 2015 - Camerino and Matelica
September 5, 2015 - Introductory page and Urbisaglia
Musei Capitolini: Relief with a dedication to Aglibol and Malakbel who shake hands (found in Rome): "To the gods of the fatherland Aglibol and Malakbel.
Caios Aurelios Heliodoros Adranos, son of Antiochos, from Palmyra, dedicated this ex-voto and the richly decorated silver statue at his own expense, for the salvation of himself, his wife and his children, in the year 547 (of the Seleucid epoch i.e. 235 AD) in the month of Peritio (February)."
Question: is mankind moving forward or backward?
August 29, 2015
and other monuments
August 22, 2015
or Pergamon
August 20, 2015
Fragment of a Ist century AD fresco at Antiquarium Lucrezia Romana, the newest addition to the archaeological museums of Rome. Situated near Villa dei Sette Bassi it houses exhibits found in the area
August 15, 2015
The Archaeological Museums of Izmir and Canakkale
August 8, 2015
Ephesus
August 1, 2015
The Archaeological Museum and The Great Palace Mosaic Museum
July 25, 2015
Antalya
July 18, 2015 Side
July 11, 2015
Alanya
July 4, 2015
Roman Funerary Rites
June 27, 2015
Manisa
June 20, 2015
Isparta and Kutahya
June 13, 2015 Afyonkarahisar
May 30, 2015 Introduction and Sagalassos
May 23, 2015 The Harem and Hagia Irene and Little Hagia Sophia
May 16, 2015
Assos
May 9, 2015
Troy
May 2, 2015 Aspendos
April 25, 2015 Phaselis and Anemurium
April 18, 2015
Cervara and Rocca Canterano and Trevi and Filettino
March 28, 2015 Fiuggi (Anticoli di Campagna) and Piglio and Acuto
March 21, 2015
Palmanova and Modern Trieste
March 20, 2015
Roman Spring: (above) "A divine mind placed the City of Rome in a beautiful and temperate region" - inscription on an 1888 building near S. Maria Maggiore; (below) yellow daisies at Basilica Ulpia
March 14, 2015 Venetian/Papal Ravenna: Walls/Gates, Churches and Other Monuments
March 7, 2015 Chioggia
February 28, 2015 Venetian Cividale and Medieval and Venetian Pola
February 21, 2015 Medieval and Venetian Parenzo and Rovigno
February 18, 2015 (Ash Wednesday)
Pope Francis, Monsignor Guido Marini, Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations, and Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Prefect of the Papal Household, at the Ash Wednesday procession at S. Sabina. Compare these images with those of 2006 and 2014
February 14, 2015 Pomposa
February 7, 2015 Medieval Ravenna and Roman and Medieval Trieste
January 31, 2015 Byzantine Ravenna: Other Monuments and Roman and Medieval Cividale
January 24, 2015 Byzantine Ravenna: S. Apollinare in Classe and S. Vitale
January 17, 2015
at Valle della Caffarella
January 10, 2015 - Grado and Roman and Byzantine Parenzo
January 3, 2015 - Early Christian Aquileia and Medieval Aquileia
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