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One ancient sewer from the Sumarian city Eshnunna in central Mesopotamia, consisted of brick sewers connected In 2020 there was evidence unearthed of more than 4000 year old sewers in ancient China in the Ancient The sewer was an important contribution to public health in ancient Rome and an impressive feat of ancient are still visible and even somewhat functional in Rome today: Outlet of the Cloaca Maxima, Life in Ancient Samuel Ball Platner (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby): A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient

Saxx of a Lascaux cave painting, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons My latest ancient coin has a beautiful The book covers many aspects of the relationship between cattle and the ancient Greeks: “The accumulation The book is rich with facts and stories about cattle in ancient Greece and also draws an arc from Greek I will make up for the lack of images in the book with my own ancient coins depicting cattle, starting This Neapolitan bull is meant to represent Achelöos, the water god of ancient Greece.

Ancient coin collectors must see perfection differently or they would not have much to collect at any Doug Smith , author of the educational site on ancient coins that I have linked to his name, in a post Elymais is diminutive of "Elam" as the kingdom included parts of the ancient province of Elam. This tetradrachm of Elymais is for me a perfect example of an ancient coin that is more beautiful because

tethrippon (a four horse chariot race) , Foals tethrippon (a four horse chariot race with foals) , 10 Blackwell companions to the ancient world, WILEY-BLACKWELL, Chichester. Chapter 3 Gallivan, Paul A. Penn Museum Excavations at Nemea (note: games were not held at Argos during Nero's time) KU Leuven, Ancient Olympics Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources, Stephen Miller, pp. 162-164 Smithsonian Magazine,

An arca ferrata with three money bags sitting on top, can be seen on this beautiful coin with excellent from Sessions 2–3 , Single Contributions, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2022 (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient

Figure 28 from Jeffery, 1990, Local Scripts of Archaic Greece The top row gives the standard classical Classical Numismatic Group, Triton IX, January 10, 2006 (with thanks to anothe NumisForums contributor Available at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pelopidas*.html Note: Ancient

Admittedly this note wanders from anything directly relevant to ancient coins and into a sidetrack with How were plated coins made in ancient times? While there are several candidates for silver plating in ancient Rome, there is uncertainty about the Giving in to tendency to make parallels between ancient Rome and the current environment, this graph Studies in ancient coinage in honor of Andrew Burnett. London: SPINK, pp. 181-205.

Palazzo Senatorio  (Senatorial Palace) with statues of Castor (left) and Pollux (right) at the top of architectural career, Vogt was an accomplished numismatist who assembled a distinguished collection of ancient

"Ancient democracies and federations of states" is a theme in ancient coins that attracts my interest Greece also showing Italy to the West and Türkiye to the East ( Google Maps ) Boeotia from a map of ancient Representative Government in the Ancient Polities . The Classical Journal , 14 (9), 533–549. A Companion to Ancient Greek Government , edited by Hans Beck, John Wiley & Sons, first published 2013

In the COVID-19 pandemic world, it is a bit too easy to imagine the plagues of ancient Rome. Plagues are often referenced in ancient literature and we can see calls to the gods for deliverance in ancient coins. Apollo - Fritz Graf (2009) Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Roman Plague , Kyle Harper, The Atlantic

This is a very rare Roman Provincial coin, with about 10 known, that refers to the administration of An Ancient Inscription Several epigraphic references to Kilikarchae are included in E.

The calendar of the Roman Republic fell short more than 10 days each year which meant that the seasons For not only in very ancient times was the relation of the lunar to the solar year in great confusion However, the calendar was running fast by 11 min and 14 seconds a year, which by AD 1582 had become 10 ending in 00 only if they are divisible by 400 (eliminating 3 leap years every 400 years) – he also took 10