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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Most Recent Visit: June 2025 Prior to the arrival of the Romans, the area of Colonia Martia Iulia Valeria Salona was part of the territory of the Dalmatae, an Illyrian tribe whose territory and name would later become the basis for the Roman province and modern region of Dalmatia. The Dalmatae seem to have broken…
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Continued From Kos Part III Around 30 meters west of the tholos and eastern/western stoai, along Agiou Nikolaou is the intersection with Vasileos Pavlou A. On the northwest corner of that intersection is another excavated area, the so-called House of the Bronzes. The House of the Bronzes, however, is not a domestic structure at the…
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Continued From Colonia Caesar Augusta – Part I Just a block away, on the next street to the north of the theater, is the Museo de las Termas Públicas de Caesaraugusta. These are located at the Calle de San Juan y San Pedro 7. These share the same opening and admission scheme as all the…
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Most Recent Visit: July 2024 The site of Colonia Flavia Scupinorum, often shortened to Scupi, is located on the north bank of the Axios (the modern Vardar), a few kilometers outside the modern capital of North Macedonia; Skopje. The immediate area of the settlement has produced archaeological evidence suggesting the location had been inhabited since…
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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: June 2022 The area that the Romans would eventually settle as Colonia Ulpia Traiana, near the confluence of the Rhenus (modern Rhine) and Lupia (modern Lippe) rivers, was sparsely inhabited by local groups for at least the preceding two millennia. There does not seem to have been any large settlements identified in…
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Continued From Agrigentum, Sicilia Part IV At the very west end of the archaeological park, near the Temple of the Dioscouri, is the entrance to the Giardino della Kolymbethra, a valley located along the north side of the archaeological area. I didn’t visit this on the 2017 trip because I thought having a separate additional…
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Continued From Agrigentum, Sicilia Part II The first time I visited Agrigento in June 2017, I was just a few months on from officially starting this project. It was one of the first sites I visited after I had actually started working this. Though I had gone into summer 2016 travels with the idea, I…
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