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Funeral altar of Quarta, early 2nd century CE, Rome, Marble. White marble cippe. The crown of the altar has a crown and band decoration, on the sides, an urceus (libation jug) and a hook. Lettering: D (is) M (anibus). Quatae coniugi optimae...

Tomb Altar for Julia Saturnia and Gaius Sulpicius Clytus. 130 CE. marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made of 50 pictures with MetaShape from Agisoft. For more updates, please consider to follow me on Twitter...

Votive altar dedicated to the divinity of the Borders. Found in Vinxtbach (Germany) on the border between the Germania Inferior and Germania Superior provinces. Stone. Musée du Cinquantenaire (Brussels, Belgium). Translation: to the divinity...

A Roman votive altar dedicated to Hecule Saxanus. Norroy (France, department of Meurthe-et-Moselle). Musée du Cinquantenaire (Brussels, Belgium). Made with ReMake and ReCap pro from Autodesk. The inscription reads: To Hercules Saxanus...

Cinerary Altar for Cornelia Cleopatra, found by the Via Appia, Rome. 100-150 CE, marble, Nye Carlsberg Glyptoteket (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento beta (now Remake) from Autodesk.

Women in ancient Egypt had greater rights than in any other civilization of the time. They could own land, initiate divorce, own and operate their own business, become scribes, priests, seers, dentists, and doctors. Although men were dominant...

For well over 1,000 years, sacred stories and heroic epics have made up the mythology of Hinduism. Nothing in these complex yet colourful legends is fixed and firm. Pulsing with creation, destruction, love, and war, it shifts and changes...

The threshing floors of the Bible were outdoor stone floors, usually circular in fashion, used by farmers to process the grain of their crops. For the larger community, like watermills of the recent past, they could be gathering places bustling...

Bath, the famous spa town in Somerset England, has attracted people from near and far for centuries to its healing springs and baths. Today the city is known for its beautiful Georgian architecture and as the destination for the wealthy elite...

Dion is located at the foot of Mount Olympus in the north of Greece, in what would have been ancient Macedon. It takes its name from the most important Macedonian sanctuary dedicated to Zeus ("Dios” meaning "of Zeus”). Legend claims this...