History&Archaeology 🏛 lover of the arts 🗿photography, architecture and of coffee☕
•Cycladic/Minoan/Mycenaean, Classical Greece, Hellenistic period, Byzantium•
One of the biggest pre-roman mosaics ever found. Highly elaborate, meant to show the power of the Kingdom of Macedonia. The Palace of Aigai, it's considered the second most important structure of classical Greece after the Parthenon.
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#AncientGreece
#macedonia
New discovery: A statue of Hercules was unearthed at Philippi in Greece by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The statue is from the 2nd c. CE and it decorated a structure from the 8th-9th c CE (most likely a public fountain).
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Saint Catherine Greek Orthodox Monastery at Sinai/Egypt holds a staggering record.
Operating for almost 1,500 years uninterrupted since Emperor Justinian established it, with the oldest continuously operating library, contains some of the earliest Christian icons and texts.
Athens Unseen
A nearly 2,000-year-old Roman reservoir is located at the center of the city of Athens. Constructed by the Emperor Hadrian around 125 CE, it has been used for nearly 1000 years providing water to the residents.
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#RomanEmpire
#Athens
#Hadrian
Monastery of Simonos Petra (Simon's Rock). Staggering Byzantine engineering of the 13th century.
Monastic state of Athos/Greece
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#Byzantium
This amazing
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geared mechanical calendar, is the second oldest known of its kind after the
#AntikytheraMechanism
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The device could tell the time in 16 locations and would have been able to predict the positions of the Sun and Moon. 400-600 AD
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Extraordinary and beautiful. The amazing treasure of Tillya Tepe in Afghanistan from the 1st BC- 1st AD.
Greek, Persian, Indian, Chinese motifs/techniques and influences blending together with local ones, syncretisms and combinations of deities and mythologies...
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