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Interesting article on the Romans. I wonder if the use of salmon pink is due to the British framing of themselves as the just inheritors of the Roman Empire?

Itineraries rather than maps is an interesting way to frame the world.

#AncientRoman #mapstodon #cartography #geonews

Follow up to previous #WorldGiraffeDay post: was reminded of this other #AncientRoman #giraffe art in the Nile mosaic of Palestrina, c. 100 BCE. So that's two...any others prior to the Lod mosaic and the later Byzantine mosaics??
(image via https://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmbott/18450077859/)

More Than The #HagiaSophia: Visit The #AncientRoman #HagiaIrene #Church, Which Is Still Standing

https://flip.it/_Cvcok

#ArsTechnica: #AncientRoman #concrete could self-heal thanks to “hot mixing” with quicklime

Mysterious lime clasts, dismissed as defects, turn out to serve a useful purpose.

JENNIFER OUELLETTE

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/ancient-roman-concrete-could-self-heal-thanks-to-hot-mixing-with-quicklime/?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=392591ed02-briefing-dy-20230112&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-392591ed02-46122510

RT @GalerieGaule@twitter.com

Janus in #ancientroman religion is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two or three faces, since he looks to the future and to the past，sometimes the present.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GalerieGaule/status/1283421400590680064

Here is my second attempt at Cato's Globi (#ancientRoman fried #cheesecake). I increased the liquid content, and also made them bigger.

I think it's an improvement.

Here is my second attempt at Cato's Globi (#ancientRoman fried #cheesecake). I increased the liquid content, and also made them bigger.

I think it's an improvement.

#Io #Saturnalia!

These are globi from /De agri cultura/ by Cato the Elder. They are basically #AncientRoman fried #cheesecakes, glazed with honey and sprinkled with poppy seeds.

This is my first attempt at this recipe, and I think the dough came out a bit too crumbly.

Recipe will follow.

Io! Io, Saturnalia!

#Io #Saturnalia!

These are globi from /De agri cultura/ by Cato the Elder. They are basically #AncientRoman fried #cheesecake, glazed with honey and sprinkled with poppy seeds.

This is my first attempt at this recipe, and I think the dough came out a bit too crumbly. Moreover, Carthage must be destroyed.

Recipe will follow.

I was going to bake some #AncientRoman #desserts for #Saturnalia (Io! Io!), but I lost a dental filling last week, and I can't get it fixed until Dec 22.

So, here is a Dulcia Piperata that I made last year. It is a spice cake, made with honey and olive oil, and a lot of black pepper.

It made me think of a primitive gingerbread (but Rome didn't get ginger until the 1st century or so).

It was good, but not great, so I don't think I'll make it again.

#DessertOfAncientRome #Io! #Io!

I was going to bake some #AncientRoman #desserts for #Saturnalia (Io! Io!), but I lost a dental filling last week, and I can't get it fixed until Dec 22.

So, here is a Dulcia Piperata that I made last year. It is a spice cake, made with honey and olive oil, and a lot of black pepper.

It made me think of a primitive gingerbread (but Rome didn't get ginger until the 1st century or so).

It was good, but not great, so I don't think I'll make it again.

#DessertOfAncientRome #Io! #Io!

(Very ancient #Roman day today, but) as #gladiators fought each other to the final breath and animals suffered violent deaths on #Rome’s Colosseum floor, #AncientRoman spectators were likely #snacking.

A recent archeological exploration of the #Colosseum’s sewers and water systems uncovered remnants of meat, vegetables, olives, nuts, and (yes), #pizza.

https://hyperallergic.com/783830/ancient-romans-snacked-on-pizza-at-the-colosseum/

#JaneDraycott's book, ‘#Cleopatra's Daughter: #Egyptian Princess, #Roman Prisoner, #African Queen', is the first modern #biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, #femalerulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene. https://flip.it/7HtTAQ #worldhistory #ancientroman #ancienthistory

Ancient Roman Roads Still Have a Mysterious Effect, Even When They Vanish: if you live close to the #ancientroman road network established more than 2,000 years ago, you're more likely to be in a comparatively #wealthy area. The #trade, #profit, and #development these roads enabled still matter in modern times. https://flip.it/h.H52W