Architectural sculpture in the “Temple of Bacchus”, Baalbek, Lebanon. Photo: TMK, October 2008. Architectural sculpture in the “Temple of Bacchus”, Baalbek, Lebanon. Photo: TMK, October 2008.
Category archives: Travel
Shopping in Damascus
The Archaeology of Shopping? Store front in Damascus. Photo: TMK, October 2008.
Doorway to the Past
Welcome to my humble abode. Medieval doorway in the late antique “Arch of Janus”, Rome. Photo: TMK, April 2009.
Fayum Travelogue
The North temple at Karanis in the Fayum. Photo: TMK, May 2008. A great series of posts on travelling in the Fayum over at Reflections in the Nile: Egyptian Bureaucracy Faiyum Here We Come Roman Faiyum Faiyum’s Playground Narmouthis and Tebtunis Hawara & Lahun The Road South
Aanjar
Some snapshots from the spectacular Umayyad site of Aanjar in Lebanon. This fortified city was built in the early 8th century AD on the same principles as a Roman city, i.e. using a square grid plan and with colonnaded streets. Its builders also made extensive use of spolia. Aanjar had several bathhouses, heated by hypocaust […]
Theodoret’s Digs
Here’s some photos from Theodoret’s hometown of Cyrrhus in northern Syria. Theodoret was famously outspoken on the ‘errors’ of pagan gods. In his Ellenikon Therapeutike Pathematon (“Remedy for Greek [i.e. pagan] Maladies”), he condemned representations of Venus as “more shameless than that of any prostitute standing in front of a brothel” (3.79) and caricatured Dionysos […]
Alexandria Sunset
Sunset in the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria. Photo: TMK, May 2008. Sunset in the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria. Photo: TMK, May 2008.
A Visit to “Le Jardin Romain”
65 metres worth of opus spicatum, Caumont-sur-Durance. Photo: TMK, August 2008. A relatively ‘new’ Roman site in Provence is “Le Jardin Romain” in Caumont-sur-Durance. The site opened in July 2006, and has branded itself as a sort of didactic playground (labyrinth included). The villa to which the garden originally belonged is still buried below modern […]
Mátala (Suite II)
Photo: TMK, April 2007. Photo: TMK, April 2007. Photo: TMK, April 2007. Photo: TMK, April 2007.
Mátala (Suite I)
Some images from an early morning visit to the beach at Mátala, Crete. Photo: TMK, April 2007. Photo: TMK, April 2007. Photo: TMK, April 2007.