Snippets from the Ancient World

  Aphrodisias was a “free city” (i.e. self-governing) on a tributary of the Meander River in south-western Turkey, the remains of which have...

  Roman Britain’s first urban settlement was Colchester, which is today an Essex market town with a population in excess of 100,000 people. ...

  This is a detail of one of the many floor mosaics to be seen at the fabulous early fourth-century AD Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza A...

  The Appian Way is one of the earliest ancient Roman roads, stretching for more than 700 km from Rome to Brindisi on the south-east coast o...

The city of Leicester was an important place in Roman Britain, and the countryside around it was settled by people who became Romanized an...

Have you ever wondered why people go to Church on Sundays, as opposed to any other day of the week, and why Sunday is a “da...

The ruins of Mshatta Palace lie some 30 kms south of Amman, the capital of Jordan. The palace was built during the rule of Caliph al-W...