https://kolektiva.social/@phistorians/112412701751269203 phistorians@kolektiva.social - #PhallusThursday

There’s nothing quite like a Roman chariot race, but wait, have they replaced the horses with phalluses? And are those phalluses propelled by chicken (cock?) legs? Goodness!

🏛 MAA, Cambridge

#AncientRome #History @antiquidons @AimeeMaroux

The Partial Historians (@phistorians@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 1 image #PhallusThursday There’s nothing quite like a Roman chariot race, but wait, have they replaced the horses with phalluses? And are those phalluses propelled by chicken (cock?) legs? Goodness! 🏛 MAA, Cambridge #AncientRome...

https://kolektiva.social/@phistorians/112163321456195786 phistorians@kolektiva.social - The Kritonios Crown  ~ C4th BCE.

This beautifully intricate crown embodies a variety of flora including oak, myrtle, ivy, and rose culminating in several figures including a winged goddess.

📍The tomb of Kritonios, Armento
🏛Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich

#AncientRome #AncientGreece #History

The Partial Historians (@phistorians@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 1 image The Kritonios Crown ~ C4th BCE. This beautifully intricate crown embodies a variety of flora including oak, myrtle, ivy, and rose culminating in several figures including a winged goddess. 📍The tomb of Kritonios,...

Ancient Roman cement/concrete is better in many ways than modern cement/concrete. So why don't we use it today? Like McArthur Park, we lost the recipe.

#AncientRome #AncientRoman #Rome #Roman #Concrete #Cement #buildingMaterials

https://unews.utah.edu/roman-concrete/

How seawater strengthens ancient Roman concrete | UNews

Around A.D. 79, Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote in his Naturalis Historia that concrete structures in harbors, exposed to the constant assault of the saltwater waves, become “a single stone mass, impregnable to the waves and every day...

Ancient shopping

by Scott Hilburn

#roman #romannumbers #shopping #ancientshopping #ancientrome #comics #fun #humor #hilburn #scotthilburn #universaluclick

I’m going to have to give this a whirl. It’s like the Roman gladiator equivalent of Rumford’s Soup, which I have experimented with, but looks like it could be tastier #foodhistory #history

https://twitter.com/TastingHistory1/status/1442867608554930189

#gladiator #ancientrome #rome #tastinghistory

Archaeologists find unique ceremonial #vehicle near #Pompeii | #Archaeology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/27/archaeologists-find-unique-ceremonial-vehicle-near-pompeii

#Science #History #AncientRome #RomanEmpire