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I can only imagine even more throngs of tourists! (if I could, I'd be one of them)

Makes me wonder why mosaic walls aren't found during excavations. Or are there? Perhaps the workmen didn't have a reliable medium to adhere them vertically. Seems they should have tho with their knowledge of cement.

We did a Nile cruise, but not on a big ship. Most amazing was watching the sunset from the boat. One second the sun was above the horizon, the next it literally dropped out of sight. OT: Also a small group of us elected to take a bus trip across the desert to Abu Simbel, four hours each way. The stars in the night sky.....never saw stars like that before and will probably never again.

Never been in a hot air balloon, too many accident stories keep me away. However, I agree to the right person it would be a breath taking adventure. Perhaps better than being kidnapped by a camel driver and held for ransom as I was when I visited the pyramids. Well, sort of. The camel ride was part of the tour. The part where my camel driver led me away from the group and then demanded bakeesh or he wouldn't let me off wasn't. I paid the man. Back on the bus I may not have been the only one. The guide asked if anyone had paid their camel driver "extra" for any reason. I kept silent because I was embarrassed! No one else raised their hand either. 🤐

Enjoyed it. Now I need to find photos of ancient Roman "eye stamps". ETA: I found this: https://www.ypsyork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/News-34-Roman-eye-medicine-box.pdf

Thank you for the article with further info. Very interesting.

I have never read any of this information before. The sculptor's actual studio was found with portrait heads? How exciting. Thank you so much. ETA: I would love to visit The Egyptian Museum of Berlin. Have you been there?

I've watched numerous docs on her. One suggested that the bust was a fake, modern made, not ancient. I wonder where it was excavated from? I don't remember actually hearing if it was just found in the ground all by itself or in a tomb or ruins of a temple. Perhaps just discarded because of her being considered a heretic? Thanks for sharing the video.

Amazing.

This sounds interesting. Will revisit later.

Oh good. And I think I remember that Sam was "Northern Niel"?

I have been thinking of two posters, Nephele and Sam. I've forgotten Sam's forum name, but he was a guide at Hadrian's wall in England. Nephele would give us our Roman names. I suppose they went to Facebook? I don't do FB. Just curious as to how they are doing, esp. during this pandemic.

Yes, I like that one.

Ha, ok. Thanks.

Very nice photos.

That wasn't so bad, I was entertained. However, the ending confuses me. Why was Armenias(sp?) allowed to go free with a hand shake?? Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing. I always have a difficult time visualizing what ruins would have looked like before. The theater - I don't see it there. How did they decide it was "Nero's theater"?

The photos are really beautiful. It is a fine balance about preserving antiquity and improving access to the public So true.

So beautiful.

I can't imagine what that must have been like for the people. Am I reading correctly, that this was one reason it is referred to as the Dark Ages? because it WAS dark? I've never read about this before. Thanks for sharing.

This is what I was looking for. Dark brown, not grey eyes. Thank you.

Yes, I would like to ask the artist how he/she arrived at eye color. And I imagine there was much more makeup worn by women than shown in the colorization. Which makes me wonder, in ancient writings are details like this about people ever written about by their peers? Not that I have read as much as others here probably have. Seems to me I do remember reading that Julius Caesar had "light gray" eyes.

I should have remembered to move this post to "Imperium Romanorum". Sorry.

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Aquae Sulis would be a great experience. Thanks for sharing.