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The Saqqara Necropolis near Cairo, containing the oldest of the pyramids, the Step Pyramid of Djoser (c.2700 BC) #ancientsitesunday #sundaystonework. It's very hot here!
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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For #AncientSiteSunday the #Hellenistic theatre at Pergamon, #Türkiye, built in the 3rd century BC, alterations were made in the #Roman period. It's one of the steepest known ancient theatres. The capacity was about 10,000 spectators.

📷 C. Bredfeldt

🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
A full shot of the ruins of an ancient theatre, located on a hillside. The theatre's steep tiered seating structure is clearly visible, constructed of light gray stone blocks, weathering evident in various tones. The hillside surrounding the theatre s covered with grass, creating a contrast between the man-made stone structures and the natural landscape. Sections of crumbling stone walls and foundations are scattered throughout the grassy slopes.
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Creevykeel Court Tomb, Sligo, last month.

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#AncientSiteSunday #Prehistoric #Archaeology #Sligo #EastCoastKin #Ireland
A curved line of standing stones that would have formed the walls of the large interior chamber of a neolithic court tomb. There is a gap in the wall and a stone lintel over it, forming an entrance to another chamber behind. There is grass in the foreground and a circular, low wall in front of the entrance that would have originally been another small chamber within the tomb. Trees in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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#AncientSiteSunday - Kibyra, an ancient city located on a mountainous site in southwestern Turkey. It was important in the ancient world due to its strategic location at the intersection of the cultural regions of Lycia, Caria, Pisidia & Phrygia, and at the crossroads of important commercial routes.
The stadium. Dated to the late 2nd to early 3rd century AD, the stadium was strategically located on the slopes of the main hill, integrated into the urban fabric of Kibyra. The colonnaded street of the Upper Agora with stoas and shops on both sides. The tholos-nymphaeum on the third terrace of the Upper Agora, unearthed during the 2016 excavations. The circular, temple-like fountain structure was dedicated to the nymphs and associated with the city’s water supply system. It was decorated with columns, embossed friezes, and sculptures. The Odeon was constructed in the 1st century AD and embellished in the 3rd century AD.
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
forestcollectiv.bsky.social
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Then it's only a short way to Silvanus

I thought I was going to dislike this, in pictures it had looked a bit tacky but in person, it's actually pretty great! The rusty iron surface a nod to both the Roman, and later industrial legacy of the area

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#RomanSiteSaturday
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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this is Rough Castle, feel like we're getting into #RomanFortThursday territory but this is a spectacular place, even more so in Autumn (click for full image)

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November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
forestcollectiv.bsky.social
#AncientSiteSunday with Old Oswestry and What.A.Day.For.It !! 😳😳
Can't believe it, Shropshire is looking magical this morning
November 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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#AncientSiteSunday Plan of the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, one of the ancient world’s largest temple complexes. Geoarchaeological survey suggests it developed from a small fluvial terrace to one of the defining institutions of Ancient Egypt.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Plan of a rectilinear temple complex, annotated with features such as temples and a sacred lake, as well as areas from which sediment cores were sampled in the study.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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The beautiful #Roman ruins of Ostia Antica, a port city located just a short distance from #Rome - such an amazing & well-preserved site! 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #AncientSiteSunday
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Perched on a hilltop overlooking the Pontine Marshes, ancient Norba boasts some of the best-preserved polygonal walls in Italy. The town plan is a rare early example of Roman orthogonal urbanism on difficult terrain, utilizing a system of terracing.
#archaeology #history
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October 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
forestcollectiv.bsky.social
#AncientSiteSunday & the rumps early this morning, not quite the sunrise promised earlier in the week, but still great to be back

We'll get to Cornwall soon but to catch up with our hillfort journey so far it's all here >>>
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October 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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For #stunday. Mexico's Teotihuacan. The Avenue of the Dead leads to the Pyramid of the Moon, which mimics the mountains behind (2015) #photography #Mexico #Teotihuacan #nativeamerica #ruins #AncientBlueSky #archaeology #travelphotography #AncientSiteSunday #SundayStonework
October 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Cloud Inversion at Bratton Camp
i'll never forget this one, this was an incredibly special evening

See more in the new episode, which also includes a bit of an explainer on Hillfort types & how they were constructed >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

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October 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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#AncientSiteSunday - Little Petra, located 6 km north of Petra, was a key stop on the Nabataean caravan route. The 350-metre canyon, mainly carved in the 1st century AD, features rock-cut cultic structures, including temples, cave dwellings and a biclinium decorated with Nabataean wall paintings.
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#AncientSiteSunday A glorious day in Tres Tabernae! Tres Tabernae (meaning "Three Taverns") was a significant ancient Roman settlement located on the Via Appia, approximately 50 kilometers (31 miles) southeast of Rome. A thread 🧵 #archaeology #history
September 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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#AncientSiteSunday with Ladle Hill, the great unfinished hillfort

See more of it & the Hillforts of Hampshire & Wiltshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I1...
September 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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#AncientSiteSunday
Baelo Claudia (Bailo, Baelokun), finales del siglo II a. C.
Tarifa, Cádiz 🇪🇦 España.
#Hispania #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky
Baelo Claudia (Bailo, Baelokun), finales del siglo II a. C. Tarifa, Cádiz 🇪🇦 España. 📷 Montaje: A. M.
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Roman advertisement for wine! 🍷

At the entrance to a bar in ancient Herculaneum, this fresco with four coloured jugs, and the text ‘Ad Cucumas’ / ‘To the vessels’, was preserved by volcanic ash from the eruption of Mt Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago!

📷 by me

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#Archaeology
My photo shows a painted advertisement depicting four different coloured wine jugs shown in profile (L to R: green, blue, red, grey) on a cream painted plaster background. The spout of the green and grey jugs point right. The blue and red point left. They are all the same shape; round body with a long neck with pouring spout and a long handle which attaches from the middle of the vessel and has a downward curve as it attaches to the top of the neck. Beneath each jug is red text showing a different price ranging from two to four and a half asses per sextarius (a unit equal to just over half a litre). Red painted text above the jugs reads: Ad cucumas/ To the vessels.
September 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
forestcollectiv.bsky.social
#AncientSiteSunday with Wolstonbury Hill in Sussex, a hillfort with a late Bronze age origin

see more of the Hillforts of the South Downs in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dsE...
September 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Devils Dyke, West Sussex is definitely doing its best, but its hard when you've got a car park *and a pub* right in the middle of a hillfort, not to mention the road in bisecting the enclosure

see more in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dsE...

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September 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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For #stunday. Sunset on the cliff-top ruins of the 5th-century BCE Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece. (2023)

#PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #ruins #AncientBlueSky #travelphotography #AncientSiteSunday #SundayStonework #archaeology #Greece #Athens
September 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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#AncientSiteSunday - Labraunda, the site of the Sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos, situated in the mountains that overlook the Milas plain. It was a major sanctuary in Caria, particularly during the 4th century BC, when King Mausolus, the satrap of Caria, made Labraunda his family’s sanctuary.
September 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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For #Stunday, the Greek temples at Paestum. #photography #photo #foto
#AncientSiteSunday #ancientbluesky #StoneworkSunday #architecture #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky
September 14, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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The vast Cissbury Ring, West Sussex

One for your sunday morning new episode exploring the Hillforts of Sussex & the South Downs >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dsE...

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September 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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The ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil was a palace and temple complex in the ancient Elamite city of Dur Untashi, Iran. Dating to c. 1250 BCE. Its ornate facade was once decorated with glazed blue and green terracotta and its interior with glass and ivory mosaics. #AncientSiteSunday #AncientBlueSky 🏺
The complex remained unfinished. (as evidenced by thousands of stacked bricks at the site), by about 640 BCE when Choghā Zanbīl was attacked, looted, and heavily damaged by the forces of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. Afterward, it fell into ruin. In 1979, Chogha Zanbil became the first Iranian site to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
December 8, 2024 at 10:02 AM