its #AncientSiteSunday & finally got to visit Flag Fen this week!
Having heard so much about it, was a rush to see it for ourselves

#BronzeAge #Fens

Visited this weekend (though not quite in time to get inside) the circular templar church from c12 in London with its incredible romanesque portal

#AncientSiteSunday #Templar #London

It is stunning
RT @DrNWillburger: For #AncientSiteSunday the so-called temple of Bacchus at #Baalbek. The impressive building is one of the best preserved and largest #Roman temple ruins and part of a temple complex located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon, an UNESCO World Heritage site since 1984. https://t.co/dWKaqo8cAx

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Baroness_Nichol/status/1667889424087097344

#AncientSiteSunday: the Temple of Isis at the island of Delos, #Greece.
The cult of the #Egyptian goddess began to spread around the Mediterranean in the early Hellenistic period.

#Archaeology

#AncientSiteSunday with the Roman Basilica at Salamis, Cyprus - destroyed in c7, now overlooking an absolutely gorgeous (and virtually deserted) beach

See more of ancient Cyprus in the episode >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iFyJU0cQ2A

#RomanArchaeology

#AncientSiteSunday - the amazing reconstructed #Chalcolithic village of Lempa, Cyprus
based on the hut circles from 3800–2500 BC still visible on the site (pic 4)

See more of Cyprus in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep7r89VKH30

RT @DigitalMapsAW
The Minoan palace of Phaistos, Crete.

It was the second largest city of Minoan Crete after Knossos.

📷: Mark Cartwright; Antonis Vassilakis

#AncientSiteSunday

#AncientSiteSunday & feeling better than i have all year after a long-awaited revisit to @butserancientfarm

just the biggest shout out to everyone working there this half term 🙌 made all the difference

RT @DigitalMapsAW
Arkaim, Russia.

It was a Bronze Age fortified settlement of the Sintashta culture dating to the 17th-16th c. BC.

📷: HeritageDaily

#AncientSiteSunday

#AncientSiteSunday and the breathtaking 'Tombs of the Kings' in Paphos, Cyprus
The name is an anochronism as we have no evidence of actual monarchs being buried there, but still an amazing place
See it in our brand new episode on Cyprus >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep7r89VKH30

Cross slab at Church Island, Lough Currane, #Waterville, #Kerry An amazing place, definitely worth visiting, https://youtu.be/TVzoMLGpnuo #AncientSiteSunday

For #AncientSiteSunday a photo of the protection of the Sphinx at Giza against bombs during World War II. Sandbags were piled on a structure of stones and bricks, carefully placed around the statue's chin to protect the neck against breakage.

Photo: Bob Landry

#Egypt #archaeology

for #AncientSiteSunday it has to be the Rotunda in Thessaloniki as we have a new episode out!!
Still standing after 1700 years, and with gorgeous gold mosaic

Watch our journey around Thessaloniki & Macedonia here >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8FTBcQK7b0

#RomanArchaeology

New post from last week on the ancient city of Ambracia:

http://roamintheempire.com/index.php/2022/12/14/ambracia/

Though primarily a Greek city, there was a short period of Roman hegemony before it was largely depopulated to boost the newly founded Nicopolis in the late 1st century BCE, and it did play host to an interesting episode during the Roman siege of the city in 189 BCE.

#Archaeology #Greece #AncientSiteSunday

For #AncientSiteSunday a phantastic aerial view of the #amphitheatre in #Verona. Built around 30 AD, it held up to 30,000 spectators. It's one of the largest surviving #Roman amphitheatres and now used for opera performances.

Photo: https://www.agriturismosanmattia.it/de/agriturismo-arena-von-verona.php

#RomanArchaeology #archaeology

#AncientSiteSunday and continuing with the amazing sites around Dorchester, Maumbury rings: A #Neolithic Henge that was turned into a #Roman amphitheatre

#romanarchaeology

RT @DrNWillburger@twitter.com

#AncientSiteSunday: a fantastic photo of one of the colossal statues from the main entrance to the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, #Egypt, mostly covered by sand. It was taken by Maxime Du Camp in 1850. An assistant climbed to the top of the head of the colossus, probably...1/2

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrNWillburger/status/1599315705463132160

RT @carolemadge@twitter.com

#AncientSiteSunday - Qasr al-Abd, a Hellenistic building located in Jordan, not far from Amman. It was erected in the 2nd century BC by the Jewish Tobiad family as part of a much larger estate. The building had two floors and was adorned with carvings of various animals.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/carolemadge/status/1599398918390878208

RT @DrNWillburger@twitter.com

#AncientSiteSunday: a fantastic photo of one of the colossal statues from the main entrance to the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, #Egypt, mostly covered by sand. It was taken by Maxime Du Camp in 1850. An assistant climbed to the top of the head of the colossus, probably...1/2

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrNWillburger/status/1599315705463132160

RT @roamintheempire@twitter.com

#OnThisDay in 450 CE, Galla Placidia, daughter, wife, and mother of Roman emperors, died in Rome. Some mosaics from the lavishly decorated "mausoleum" in #Ravenna that bears her name, but in which she was not actually interred.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientSiteSunday

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/roamintheempire/status/1596886885804126208