It’s sunset, and an airplane flies high above the Temple of Hephaestus. A marvel of modern human ingenuity pays homage to the ancient god of metallurgy and craftsmanship. Athens, April 2024. Like and Follow for more of this content! #Athens #Greece #Hephaestus

🇬🇧: This fresco depicting the Trojans entering the wooden horse through their walls was found in Pompeii and probably dates from sometime in the first half of the first century BC. According to the descriptive plaque, this piece belongs to the National Archaeological Museum of

🇬🇧: The left coin is a bronze sestertius of Titus showing the Flavian Amphitheatre, better known today as the Colosseum. The right coin is also a bronze sestertius of Trajan showing the Circus Maximus. You can find Trajan’s Circus Maximus Sestertius for something in the range of

🇬🇧: Egyptologists currently credit Imhotep with designing and constructing the first Egyptian pyramid. Located in the Saqqara necropolis, the step pyramid of Djoser (first pharaoh of the Third Dynasty who ruled from around 2592 to 2566 BC) stands 205 ft tall and was the tallest

🇬🇧: Islam and Judaism forbid any physical representation of God. Christianity has struggled within itself with this idea even to this day. Iconoclasm, the war on icons, shook the religious foundations of the Byzantine Empire in the VIII and IX centuries. However, this theological

Tell Cato and Scipio that we brought more elephants this time. 🐘🐘🐘 📸 at the Pantheon :)

🇬🇧: The interior courtyard of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens is full of surprises. This mosaic representing the head of Medusa is one of them. She has wings on her forehead and snakes in her hair. Ivy leaves garnish the four corners of the entire mosaic. It dates

1/4 🇬🇧 Housed in the Capitoline Museums, this is one of the “heavyweights” of my archive of photos. Standing up to 39 feet tall, the bronze colossus of Constantine I the Great (or maybe his son, Constantius II) must have been an awe-inspiring vision. Probably made sometime

How a Pompeian saw death that fatal day of 79 AD.

Coincidence? I don't think so. 😆

🇬🇧: Eagle Warriors were elite soldiers of the Aztec empire. In the Nahuatl language, they were called cuauhtli (singular) or cuauhmeh (plural). Together with the Jaguar Warriors, these special members of the army were part of a sort of knight’s order feared on the battlefield.