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The Afrin Stele

The Afrin stele contains a fragment of hieroglyphic Luwian text from about 900 BC. It was found at Afrin in northern Syria. Source.

The Arena of Nîmes

This amphitheatre in Nîmes, Provence, built around 70 AD, was converted into a bullring in 1863 and now serves as a concert venue, with a couple of bullfights per year to propitiate the ghosts. Source.

Sant'Adriano al Foro, 1909

The Church of Saint Adriano in the Forum (the building between the pillars) started life as the Curia Julia, the meeting-house of the Roman Senate. Source.

Egyptian Arkadia

Byzantine Egypt had a province named Arkadia. Source.

Medieval Ovid

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Great Hall, Domus Aurea

A reconstruction of the great hall in Nero's Domus Aurea, by French architect Georges Chedanne. Source.

The Silchester Eagle

The Silchester Eagle was discovered in 1866 at the site of the abandoned Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum in Hampshire. It inspired Rosemary Sutcliffe's 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth, though it probably wasn't part of a legionary standard. You can see it at Reading Museum. Source.

Pandora's Box by Steele Savage

Steele Savage did the illustrations for Edith Hamilton's Mythology. He produced many book covers for science fiction paperback publishers in 1970, the last year of his life.

Sous le F: Argenton-sur-Creuse

Argenton-sur-Creuse, under the F in France on the map, grew out of the Roman town Argentomagus, which was built on a Gaulish oppidum near an important crossroad and river crossing, and looked like this painting by Jean-Claude Golvin. Source.

The Glauberg Prince

Archaeologists examine the sandstone effigy of a Celtic warrior discovered during the examination of a mound in Glauberg, Hesse in 1996. Source.