Ostia Antica day trip
These recent posts are out of order, as it was two weeks ago (before Ravenna!) that Pete and I took a day trip to Ostia Antica, the second largest preserved ruins, after Pompei. This ancient Roman city of Ostia was founded in the 4th Century BC, and in antiquity situated at the mouth of the river Tiber, some 30 kilometres to the west of Rome, likely to guard against seaborne invasions. The shoreline moved seawards, due to silting, from the Middle Ages until the 19th century. Thus, today, Ostia is still lying next to the Tiber, but at a distance of some three kilometers from the beach. Ostia is Latin for "mouth", the mouth of the Tiber.
The pictures include a floor mosaic from the Baths of Neptune, an archway that allows you to see the multiple levels of the city, and some of your other basic, centuries old ruins images. It is an amazing place.
posted by Jacquelyn @ 8:44 AM
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I'm skeptical, I think it was put there as an alien runway for the saucers...
;-)
And once they saw how cool Earth is, they built a big white saucer shrine which people have now attributed to Theodoric...
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