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One such building destroyed was the ‘Baths of Zeuxippus’: a public bath complex that also served as a kind of Byzantine museum: containing much Greek and Roman statuary.
First excavated in 1928, the results were published in Antiquity in 1930:
(£) doi.org/10.1017/S000... 2/2
First excavated in 1928, the results were published in Antiquity in 1930:
(£) doi.org/10.1017/S000... 2/2
January 13, 2026 at 1:15 PM
One such building destroyed was the ‘Baths of Zeuxippus’: a public bath complex that also served as a kind of Byzantine museum: containing much Greek and Roman statuary.
First excavated in 1928, the results were published in Antiquity in 1930:
(£) doi.org/10.1017/S000... 2/2
First excavated in 1928, the results were published in Antiquity in 1930:
(£) doi.org/10.1017/S000... 2/2
Why not explore another Roman villa in Antiquity?
The Villa of the Quintilii, near Rome, was a major imperial winery. Combining function with theatre, it turned winemaking into a spectacle for the elites, complete with fountains of grape must!
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
The Villa of the Quintilii, near Rome, was a major imperial winery. Combining function with theatre, it turned winemaking into a spectacle for the elites, complete with fountains of grape must!
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
The spectacle of production: a Roman imperial winery at the Villa of the Quintilii, Rome
The elites of many past cultures have sought to romanticise agricultural labour—often the source of their wealth and hence their status. A recently discovered winery at the Villa of the Quintilii on the Via Appia Antica, near Rome, provides only the second known example from the Graeco-Roman world of an opulent wine production complex built to facilitate vinicultural ‘spectacle’.
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January 13, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Why not explore another Roman villa in Antiquity?
The Villa of the Quintilii, near Rome, was a major imperial winery. Combining function with theatre, it turned winemaking into a spectacle for the elites, complete with fountains of grape must!
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
The Villa of the Quintilii, near Rome, was a major imperial winery. Combining function with theatre, it turned winemaking into a spectacle for the elites, complete with fountains of grape must!
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
A frightful error, please do forgive us
a man in a suit and tie is holding a red cup of coffee
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is holding a red cup of tea, sipping it and nodding
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January 13, 2026 at 8:12 AM
A frightful error, please do forgive us
Want to explore more of Central Asia's ancient wall systems? Check out new dating evidence from southern Uzbekistan's Darband Wall, shedding light on the region's diverse Seleucid, Greco-Bactrian and Kushan heritage.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Want to explore more of Central Asia's ancient wall systems? Check out new dating evidence from southern Uzbekistan's Darband Wall, shedding light on the region's diverse Seleucid, Greco-Bactrian and Kushan heritage.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Southeast Asia was well-connected long before this however, stretching back over 1000 years earlier. Shared coinage from Bangladesh to Vietnam indicates economic connections comparable to those of the Roman Empire as early as the 4th century AD 2/2
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January 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Southeast Asia was well-connected long before this however, stretching back over 1000 years earlier. Shared coinage from Bangladesh to Vietnam indicates economic connections comparable to those of the Roman Empire as early as the 4th century AD 2/2
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Read the new research in Antiquity 🆓 The late prehistoric administrative artefacts from Tapeh Tyalineh, Kermanshah, western Iran - Shokouh Khosravi
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January 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Read the new research in Antiquity 🆓 The late prehistoric administrative artefacts from Tapeh Tyalineh, Kermanshah, western Iran - Shokouh Khosravi
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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The site was likely involved in an extensive, organised network of commercial exchange and reflects cultural connections and inter-regional exchange with near and far regions of Western Asia in the early third millennium BC 7/8
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
The site was likely involved in an extensive, organised network of commercial exchange and reflects cultural connections and inter-regional exchange with near and far regions of Western Asia in the early third millennium BC 7/8
The seal impressions are diverse, sharing similarities with contemporary examples from western Iran, Mesopotamia and Arslantepe in Anatolia 6/8
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
The seal impressions are diverse, sharing similarities with contemporary examples from western Iran, Mesopotamia and Arslantepe in Anatolia 6/8
This is an unprecedented number of artefacts related to exchange, accounting, administration and storage, indicating the site was a major administrative centre despite its supposedly peripheral location 5/8
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
This is an unprecedented number of artefacts related to exchange, accounting, administration and storage, indicating the site was a major administrative centre despite its supposedly peripheral location 5/8
Now, formal excavation has uncovered 7048 seal impressions, more than 200 clay figurines, several clay tokens and two cylinder seals at Tapeh Tyalineh in western Iran, dating to approximately 5000 years ago 4/8
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Now, formal excavation has uncovered 7048 seal impressions, more than 200 clay figurines, several clay tokens and two cylinder seals at Tapeh Tyalineh in western Iran, dating to approximately 5000 years ago 4/8