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Jun 10 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
The Roman Aqueduct in Segovia, Spain.

Built to last almost 2,000 years ago.

Without the need for mortar! 🤯

📷 my own

#RomanSiteSaturday
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I took this photo from the other side. If you zoom in, you can see where the aqueduct turns a corner and changes from two arcades to one Image
It was constructed using large unmortared bricks of granite ashlar. Indent holes in the ashlar blocks show where ancient crane clamps lifted them into place. Grooves at the top of the blocks show where iron levers were used to manoeuvre them into position.

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May 11
🧵 The House of Menander was top of my #Pompeii bucket list on my recent trip. I’ve wanted to visit since researching and writing about domestic slave numbers in this elite Roman household whilst studying ‘Roman Slavery’ on my Masters degree course at @BirkbeckHCA

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The House of Menander is one of the grandest houses in Pompeii, complete with its own private bath complex. It is named after a fresco in a garden portico of the Athenian playwright Menander.

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The House of Menander is one of very few Roman houses to have rooms usually identified as slave quarters. There are four small rooms (originally with another four above) in a marginal area of the house. The rooms are off a narrow corridor on the right of my photo.

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Mar 14
World’s oldest known surviving peace treaty is the Treaty of Kadesh.

Agreed c. 3,300 years ago, between Ramesses II of Egypt and Hattusili III of the Hittite Empire. Original Hittite clay tablet version of the treaty at Istanbul Archaeology Museums. 📷 Monsieurdl

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The Egyptian version of the peace treaty was engraved in hieroglyphics on the walls of the Ramesseum and the Temple of Karnak at Thebes (modern Luxor). Seen here at Karnak 📷: Olaf Tausch

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The Treaty of Kadesh was written in cuneiform on silver tablets (now lost) from which this clay version was copied. Discovered in 1906 at the ancient Hittite capital, Hattusa, in present-day Turkey. Read more: joyofmuseums.com/museums/middle…
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