Continued From Vindonissa Part II Out the southwest exit of the cemetery onto a small unnamed street that connects with Dorfstrasse to the south, and then just a minute or so west down Dorfstrasse (about 60 meters), is the culina centurionis, the officer’s kitchen. It’s a bit hidden if you aren’t looking in the right…
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Continued From Vindonissa Part I A few blocks to the southeast of the amphitheater, on the southeast corner of the intersection Oelackerstrasse and Bergstrasse (about 450 meters walking) is an innocuous looking low stone structure with a window. Looking through the window is a settling basin for the aqueduct that supplied water to Vindonissa, one…
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Most Recent Visit: July 2022 The Roman settlement of Lucus Augusti (also sometimes called Lucus Asturum) seems to have been founded sometime after the conclusion of the Cantabrian Wars in 19 BCE. One of the primary belligerents in the war were the Gallaeci, a broad tribal group that occupied the far northwestern corner of the…
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Continued From Spalatum – Part IV There are a few other archaeological points of interest in Split outside the walls of Diocletian’s Palace. There’s a large park area out in front of the Golden Gate crisscrossed by a few connecting roadways that eventually link up with Ulica Domovinskog Rata, one of the main arteries through…
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Continued From Salona, Dalmatia – Part II. Along the exterior (east side) of the wall from the Porta Caesarea for about 70 meters north are the remains of portions of some residential insulae dating to the 3rd century CE. The pavement of a cardo running relatively parallel to the walls can be seen and the…
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Continued From Salona, Dalmatia – Part I A stairway descends from the top of the fortifications down into the area of the Episcopal Center of Salona, just to the west of the excavated towers. A few meters on and to the west of the bottom is a structure designated as Oratorium A. This space originally…
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Continued From Kos Part I Just to the south of the stadium, on the south side of Panagi Tsaldari, is the Western Archaeological Zone (Δυτικός Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος) of Kos. There is an entrance to this area right at the corner where Panagi Tsaldari goes from a north-south street to an east-west street. The Western Archaeological…
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Continued From Colonia Ulpia Traiana Part I The archaeological park is more or less divided up into the insula that would have been present in antiquity using dirt visitor paths (the actual roads are either not excavated or are not present) to mark the paths of the dividing roads. The vast majority of the site…
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Most Recent Visit: July 2023 The Roman city of Brundisium (modern Brindisi), located on the Adriatic coast of Calabria (modern Apulia) seems to have begun life as a settlement of the Messapi; though legends have the city being founded by the mythic king Diomedes of Thrace. The Messapi are thought to have originated in the…
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Most Recent Visit: June 2021 The Greek settlement of Chalcis (also Chalkis or Χαλκίς in Greek) is located about midway up the western coast of the island of Euboea (modern Evia), at the narrowest point of the Euripus, the body of water that separates Euboea from mainland Greece. The name is alternatively attributed to either…
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