Tag: roman

• Teatro Marcello, Rome’s Other Colosseum

  

  NW

  30/04/2019

  Black and White Photography, Sites & Buildings

  architecture, Black and White Photography, Photography, roman, Rome

• Sleeping Hermaphroditus, Uffizi Gallery

  

  The Sleeping Hermaphrodite depicts the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. It is a Roman copy of a Hellenistic original dating to 2nd century BC.

  NW

  15/04/2017

  Museums & Galleries

  archaeology, Art, greek, Museum, Photography, roman, sculpture, uffizi gallery

• An Ancient Computer: The Antikythera Mechanism

  

  The highlight of a recent trip to Athens was a visit to the National Museum of Archaeology. The museum had a special gallery for the finds from the Antikythera shipwreck, a boat carrying luxury goods from around 75–50 BC which was wrecked in a storm. It was discovered in 1900 by sponge divers. The highlight…

  NW

  01/10/2013

  Archaeology, Museums & Galleries

  antikythera, egypt, greece, greek, Heritage, horology, Museum, national archaeological museum athens, roman

• The Shapwick Hoard: Britain’s Largest Hoard of Roman Silver Denarii

  

  Take a look at this rather attractive pile of coins; who doesn’t like a bit of treasure? It’s actually a photo of the Shapwick Hoard, a collection of 9,262 Roman silver denarii coins found at Shapwick on the Somerset Levels in 1998. Where was it found? The hoard was discovered by amateur metal detectorists in…

  NW

  18/06/2013

  Archaeology, Museums & Galleries

  archaeology, coin, hoard, museum of somerset, Photography, roman, somerset