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Rapto de Proserpina

Bernini

Galería Borghese

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Ancient Babylon, capital of the kingdom of the same name, courtesy of ©️Cinaima Films.

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A marvel of Roman engineering: the Vespasian-Titus tunnel.

Here we have one of the most impressive examples of how well they built in Ancient Rome.

Located in the Turkish province of Hatay, at the foot of the Nur Mountains and a few km from ancient Antioch, it is named after the emperor Vespasian who began the works and was followed by his son and successor, Titus.

Vespasian (reigned 69-79), ordered its construction to channel and divert the waters that came down from the mountain and flooded the city of Seleucia Pieria, an important port located at the mouth of the Orontes River.

It was dug in rock, using chisel and hammer, by slave labor, prisoners and hundreds of legionaries. It is approximately 1,380 m long, and is the longest hand-dug tunnel in the world. The work was so extensive that it lasted until the reign of Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD)

And it is curious that it has survived to this day practically intact.

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Sunset

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A marvel of Roman engineering: the Vespasian-Titus tunnel.

Here we have one of the most impressive examples of how well they built in Ancient Rome.

Located in the Turkish province of Hatay, at the foot of the Nur Mountains and a few km from ancient Antioch, it is named after the emperor Vespasian who began the works and was followed by his son and successor, Titus.

Vespasian (reigned 69-79), ordered its construction to channel and divert the waters that came down from the mountain and flooded the city of Seleucia Pieria, an important port located at the mouth of the Orontes River.

It was dug in rock, using chisel and hammer, by slave labor, prisoners and hundreds of legionaries. It is approximately 1,380 m long, and is the longest hand-dug tunnel in the world. The work was so extensive that it lasted until the reign of Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD)

And it is curious that it has survived to this day practically intact.

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Snake road

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Praga

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Venecia

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Praga

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Stunning polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) over Iceland.

(📸©️theourspace)

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Stunning polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) over Iceland.

(📸©️theourspace)

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The House of the Golden Cupids. Pompeii

It is one of the most elegant residences of the imperial era, it is organized around the spectacular peristyle with a garden. It is a stately mansion that was built in the 1st century BC. uniting two small houses from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, and which owes its fame both to the frescoes and mosaics it contains and to the objects that were discovered in the place.

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Dante y Beatriz contemplando el cielo más alto.

Divina Comedia, canto 28, el Paraíso.

🎨Gustavo Dore

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Magic Rome

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Blinkerwall is the name archaeologists have given to a stone construction that stretched for almost a kilometre in the bay of the Gulf of Mecklenburg, in the south-east of the Baltic Sea and northern Germany.

The wall is believed to have been built by hunter-gatherers more than 10,000 years ago. It is thought to have been a kind of fence for hunting large animals and is made up of stones approximately 1 m high and less than 2 cm wide, placed side by side for almost 1 km. It is currently covered by the waters of the Baltic, at a depth of about 21 km, and is believed to have been submerged about 8,500 years ago. It was discovered in 2021 by a team of underwater archaeologists and is considered one of the oldest megastructures in Europe.

Graphic reconstruction of what the stone wall may have looked like.

(Michal Grabowski/Kiel University)

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Sagalaso, Turquía

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Back in the 13th century (the writings are estimated to date from 1234 to 1268) a 6/7 year old boy named Onfim, who lived in Veliky Novgorod, left his notes and school assignments scratched on birch bark. These have survived to this day and are written in the old Novgorod dialect. They consist of letters, syllables and drawings of battle scenes, knights, horses, arrows and himself with his teacher. These are clearly school assignments that Onfim was practising.