Archaeology Travel

Exploring the past around the World, on site and online ... sharing the best travel related archaeology news from all corners of the internet

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Art and sculptures from Hadrian’s Villa: Black-and-white mosaics with geometric and floral motifs Source: http://bit.ly/1EBeAoh This week’s masterpieces from Hadrian’s Villa are the black-and-white mosaics with geometric and floral motifs from the Hospitalia (guesthouse). (image)The Hospitalia, Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli© Carole Raddato The Hospitalia (guesthouse) was a two-storey building. It contained ten T-shaped bedrooms (cubiculae) on the first floor which were located on each side of a long and wide central hallway, at the southern end of which was a hall. Nothing survives of the second floor, which presumably mirrored the layout of the first. Each cubicula had three alcoves for three beds………. Read More

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De-turfing Hadrian’s Wall Source: http://bit.ly/1zsRHvh (image)I have argued the postholes found on the berm of Hadrian’s Wall are the remains of the a timber rampart, which together with theTurf Wall, formed the primary rampart and ditch phase of the frontier.[here] Recent work by Eric Graafstal also suggests the turf wall was the very first part of Hadrian’s Wall, and would date this phase to 119 AD, although the author believes that the Turf Wall was built in isolation against the tribes in SW Scotland [1].  Unfortunately, this leaves the Turf Wall dangling, awaiting the eventual arrival of the Stone Wall in centre of the country,………. Read More

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Stonehenge-icon of prehistoric Britain Source: http://bit.ly/1A0HwA9 Stonehenge seems to be a really popular topic at the moment, with the Operation Stonehenge tv documentary playing a large part in the resurgence in popularity. In today’s post I want to talk about the role of the landscape as a shaper of cultures and the changing narrative of the neolithic period. (image)Stonehenge, icon of prehistoric BritainThe wider landscape The significance of the landscape and environment in cultural identity has been a topic of interest for archaeologists in the last couple of decades, particularly for post-processual archaeologists (See: Bender 1993). The way………. Read More

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View of the Acropolis from my hotel's roof top terrace - the Herodion Hotel

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Train in front of the Acropolis by wesbran on Flickr.

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Wonderful image ... the old, ok very old, and the new!

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Photographs of the replica of the Ilissos statue in the Acropolis Museum in Athens, the original of which was secretly loaned to the Hermitage Museum in Russia by the British Museum. Read more here on the loan of the Ilissos statue.

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Amphitheatre - Leptis Magna

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Rome, Italy

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The Amphitheatre of Pompeii in the 1880’s

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See all the known ancient amphitheatres from above in this interactive Guide to the Amphitheatres of the Roman World

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This overgrown Roman amphitheater below the little hilltop town of Urbisaglia is actually the lesser known brother of the Colosseum in Rome, since its construction was funded by the same money. Now that I have been to both Uribisaglia and the Colosseum, I can definitely say that I much prefer Urbisaglia. It was a much more organic and pleasant experience.

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Ten Peculiar, Poignant & Popular Ossuaries Around Europe

Whether in chapels or caverns, collections of human bones in ossuaries, catacombs and charnel houses throughout Europe are macarbre yet popular attractions

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Stop saying the French discovered Angkor Source: http://bit.ly/1oQPUM3  I suppose I’m a bit of a curmudgeon and therefore get fairly easily annoyed. One of my biggest pet peeves is the old myth about how the French, specifically the explorer and researcher Henri Mouhot, “discovered Angkor” in 1860. This myth is based on an idea that the  Cambodians had no knowledge of their past, and therefore helped the French justify their colonial rule in “restoring a nation to its past grandeur” (Dagens 1995:47).  As Angkor has been in the news lately, due to the recent BBC documentary, this factual inaccuracy continues to be perpetuated……….. Read More

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House of the Skeleton. Herculaneum

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Nice set of photographs.

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Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki:

Glass birds from tombs of the Roman period.

This is one of the cards I got from the museum, unfortunatelly it was an old print so it doesn’t specify who the photographer is- more recent prints do mention the photographer. I have posted a photograph of them here too. They are definitely the most beautiful glass objects the museum has on display.

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A striking neoclassical tomb in the Graceland Cemetery of Chicago ... one of many from all periods of Europe's past. http://archaeology-travel.com/photo-album/chicago-graceland-cemetery/

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Arms and equipment from the Tomb of the Warrior, end of the 1st quarter of 5th cent. BCE.

Lanuvium, Italy