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Porta San Sebastiano front.jpg
Location: Rome
Date: 271-275 AD
Details: These fortifications replaced the fourth century BC "Servian Walls." Built by the emperor Aurelian in the late third century AD, the walls ran in a 12 mile circuit around the city and included regular…

Room of the Golden Vaults with holes.jpg
Location: Rome
Date: 64-68 AD
Details: The Domus Aurea was a large park-and-residence palace built by the emperor Nero on the Oppian Hill. The building was constructed largely in the area destroyed in the "Great Fire" (AD 64), and included groves,…

20190223_112541.jpg
Location: Rome
Date: Most of the present church was built in 1140-1143 by Pope Innocent II atop a fourth century basilica (which in turn went back to a third century house-church). The mosaics in the apse date from the 12th and 13th centuries.…

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Location: Rome
Date: c. 120-80 BC
Details: Roman temple dedicated to the god Portunus, associated with harbors, keys, and livestock. Originally located near the harbor of the Tiber river in ancient Rome.

Tomb of the Diver - The Diver.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Date: 480-470 BC Details: The so-called Tomb of the Diver was discovered about a mile (1.5 km) south of the ruins of Paestum. The tomb consisted of a chamber built from five stone slabs--one for…

Three Birds w Tree - Andriuolo Tomb 21, early 4th Century BC.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
Date: Early Fourth Century BC

Winged Demon Welcomes Deceased Woman to Afterlife, Funeral Procession - Andriuolo Tomb 47, 350 BC.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
Date: c. 350 BC
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Procession  - Andriuolo Tomb 61, 350 BC.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
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Mourning Women - Laghetto Tomb X, c. 350 BC.jpg
Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
Date: c. 350 BC
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