Inspired by one of my favourite bars at #Pompeii, I made some #ediblearchaeology. Betting its owner would have been chuffed to know that 2000 years later his bar had been immortalised in a walnut cake! #CauponaOfSpatalus#Roman
Wow your friends and family this festive season with a taste of the past. Try this ancient #Roman recipe for #Passum — a delicious sweet #wine with a rich and velvety texture that goes down a treat! Why not give it a go? #SensoryTimeTravel#Christmas
https://t.co/PbQLrmTj60
Wow your friends and family this festive season with a taste of the past. Try this ancient #Roman recipe for #Passum — a delicious sweet #wine with a rich and velvety texture that goes down a treat! Why not give it a go? #SensoryTimeTravel#Christmas
https://t.co/PbQLrmTj60
Lovely little Romano-British brooch in the form of a hare.
The artisan who made this brooch some 1,900 years ago, gave the hare a cheerful little face! 😍
Copper alloy decorated with enamel. 📷 British Museum https://t.co/7TPXCfl2CP
#Archaeology
Fragments of wall plaster found during the fort headquarters building excavation under York Minster. The decoration came from a side room probably used by senior army officers #Archaeology#York
A #Roman glass jug, decorated with irregular glass blobs . This particular vessel was made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, & looks amazing for its age! #Archaeology#RomanArchaeology#AncientGlass
Spectacular black and white floor mosaic in the women’s changing room at the Central Baths, ancient Herculaneum. Triton with octopus, cuttlefish, cherub and dolphins. Early 1st century AD.
Modern changing rooms could do with a #Roman style upgrade!
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Un buveur au banquet sur une coupe à figures rouges provenant d’Athènes et retrouvée en Étrurie, vers 490-480 J.-C. Prêt du musée du Louvre pour l’exposition « Vins, huiles et parfums - voyage archéologique autour de la Méditerranée antique » au @cdf1530.
What better way to prepare for Xmas than seeing #TwelfthNight@TheRSC. Superb cast, marvellous music & beautiful staging. @MikeGradyHall is an outstanding fool. (That’s a good thing). This production is so deliciously funny your garters will be cross if you miss it!
A mosaic from the entrance to the Roman baths in Timgad, Algeria, inviting you to swap your sandals for a pair with wooden soles that protected feet against the heated floors ..and then 'Bene lava' – 'Wash well!'
c.2nd century AD, 📷by me at Timgad Museum.
Start #FrescoFriday right with a good feast and a relax. Hair nets and drinking horns optional!
This fresco is from Herculaneum and now held in MAN Napoli.
A wall painting fragment of theatre masks from the House of the Wrestlers at Ostia Antica, near Rome. Dating to the 1st century AD, the fragment is on display in the site museum. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday#Rome#Archaeology