Baths of Caracalla
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Rome Reports has a nice video of the restoration: … they don’t seem to mention the Mithraeum that was hyped a couple of months ago (Mithraeum Reopening to the Public)
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From the Art Newspaper: Few people have ever visited the long network of underground tunnels under the public baths of Caracalla, which date back to the third century AD and are considered by many archaeologists to be the grandest public baths in Rome. This underground network, which is due to be reopened in December, is…
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As always, not sure how long this one will stay up: Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome (IMDB) This documentary is not bad/pretty good and looks at the Circus Maximus, Trajan’s Forum and Market, Aqueducts, the Baths of Caracalla, Roman Roads, the Pantheon, and the Colosseum. When it is just talking about the buildings and their…
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These are only semi-related, so first, the Royal Ontario Museum has put up a nice little video about the Baths of Caracalla with commentary by socialite-Classical-archaeologist Trinity Jackman: … in which she mentions the prevalence of malaria at Rome. I wanted to know more of course, but discovered that Sallares’ book on the subject (Malaria…
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