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#MosaicMonday - Late Roman Mosaic of the Vine Harvest depicting the transportation of grapes with donkeys after harvesting wine grapes. It was discovered during illegal excavations in the Hassa district of the Hatay Province in Türkiye, an area with a long history of grape… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Turkey’s wine heritage dates back nearly 7,000 years. The red grape, Barburi, is unique to the city of Antakya / Hatay region (Türkiye). In 2009 Hatay-based Antioche Winery brought the grape back from the brink of extinction. 🇹🇷🍇🍷 #TurkishWine
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Turkey is among the largest producers of grapes in the world, though many are consumed as table grapes or raisins. Around 30 of Turkey’s 800 indigenous grape varieties are made into wine in commercial quantities. 🇹🇷🍇🍷 #TurkishWine
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Next month, I will be tasting some Turkish Aegean wines on the island of Bozcaada (the ancient Tenedos), which has a viticulture history that goes back almost 3,000 years.
🇹🇷🍇🍷 #TurkishWine
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Here's a selection of Turkish wines I have already tasted. Şerefe!
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More Turkish wines to taste. Three are from Vinolus, a producer near Kayseri in the Cappadocia region, making wines from organically grown grapes, including the Kalecik Karası grape variety. The fourth one is a Syriac Wine from the Deyrulzafaran Monastery in Mardin. #TurkishWine Image

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I saw the wonderful Apollo Kithara by Jeff Koons yesterday at the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt. The polychromed and animatronic sculpture is a version of the Apollo Kitharoidos from Cyrene in the British Museum. Music from @AncientLyre accompanies the presentation, layered with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apollo Kitharoidos (holding a lyre), a 2nd century AD Roman copy of a Hellenistic original of about 200-150 BC. From the Temple of Apollo at Cyrene (modern Libya).
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The "Apollo Kithara" by Jeff Koons is presented as part of the MACHINE ROOM OF THE GODS exhibition at Frankfurt's Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung.
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RIP Lucius Aelius Caesar, Hadrian's first intended successor, who died #OnThisDay in AD 138.
Lucius was adopted by Hadrian in AD 136 but never attained the throne as he died of tuberculosis a few months before Hadrian. Hadrian was then forced to choose a new heir, Antoninus Pius.
“He [Lucius Aelius Caesar] was a man of joyous life and well versed in letters, and he was endeared to Hadrian, as the malicious say, rather by his beauty than by his character.”
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“He was considerate of his family, well-dressed, elegant in appearance, a man of regal beauty, with a countenance that commanded respect, a speaker of unusual eloquence, deft at writing verse, and, moreover, not altogether a failure in public life.”
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Dec 29, 2022
🧵 With New Year approaching, I thought I'd share some of my favourite moments and photos from my 2022 archaeological travels, which have seen me travel to Egypt, Turkey, Hadrian's Wall and Algeria.
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Sailing on Lake Nasser in Egypt between Aswan and Abu Simbel and visiting the temples that used to lie on the banks of the Nile but were moved when the Aswan High Dam flooded the region in the 1960s.
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Visiting the relocated Wadi es-Sebua temple with its beautiful avenue of sphinxes. The temple was built during the reign of Ramesses II and was dedicated to the deified pharaoh, Amun-Ra, and Ra-Harakhty.
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Oct 29, 2022
Some photos of Timgad, the "Pompeii of Africa". It was founded by Trajan around AD 100. The full name of the city was Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi.

The Forum
The Theatre 🎭
The East Market
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Feb 14, 2022
Thread: Last week, I sailed on Lake Nasser between Aswan and Abu Simbel. I visited the temples that used to lie on the banks of the Nile but were moved when the Aswan High Dam flooded the region in the 1960s. Follow me on this timeless journey through the legends of Nubia. #Egypt ImageImageImageImage
Day 1 - New Kalabsha, a promontory located near Aswan which houses several temples, structures, and other remains that have been relocated here from the site of Old Kalabsha and other sites in Lower Nubia. #Egypt
🔸 Kalabsha Temple
🔸 Kiosk of Qertassi
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The Temple of Kalabsha was built as a tribute to Mandulis, a sun god of ancient Nubia, under the Ptolemies and then around 30 BC during the reign of Augustus. It is the largest free-standing temple of Egyptian Nubia. However, the temple was never finished. #Egypt ImageImageImageImage
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Celebrating #Halloween 🎃👻 with some ancient monsters. Let's start with the Gorgon, perhaps the best-known monster from Classical Mythology. The snake-haired Medusa was one of the three Gorgons. Anyone who looked at her face was turned to stone.
#ClassicalMonsters
The Minotaur was a bull-headed monster that devoured human flesh deep within the twisting maze of the Labyrinth. It was the offspring of the Cretan Queen Pasiphae and a snow-white bull. The monster was eventually slain by the Athenian hero Theseus.
#ClassicalMonsters #Halloween
The Ketos was a huge sea creature sent by Poseidon to ravage the land of Aethiopia after Queen Kassiopeia boasted that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids. Perseus slew Ketos to save Andromeda from being sacrificed to it.
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