r/AncientCivilizations

: "Roman Aqueduct, Emerita Augusta (now Merida, Spain), 1st Century AD. 38 arched pillars standing 82 feet high along a course of some 2,700 feet still remain. It is an "opus mixtum" - granite ashlar blocks interspersed with red brick - in a double arcade arrangement, rather peculiar...[1920x1080] [OC]"

: "If you’re 25-40, from the UK, and love ancient History, these primary school History newspapers are buried in your childhood memory somewhere "

: "Boxing Children Fresco, Akrotiri, Thera (now Santorini), Greece, 1700 BC. Thera is regarded as part of the Minoan world, although its culture was somewhat different from that of Crete, and the political relationship between the two islands at the time is unclear...(more in comments) [1080x586] [OC]"

: "Terracotta tile with ascetics, figures on balconies, and ducks. Harwan, Kashmir, ca. 5th-6th c AD. Yale University Art Gallery collection [1817x3000]"

: "Ancient American Copper Mining Reconstructed Going Back Almost 10,000 years!"

: "The world’s oldest known Cake, Egypt. 2251 B.C."

: "Detail of the wall decoration pattern with relief ornament and painted rosettes recovered from building Xeste 3, settlement of Akrotiri, island of Thera (now Santorini), Mature Late Cycladic I period, 17th BC. Another example of the richness of the Theran domestic decoration [1920x1101] [OC]"

: "4000-year-old town discovered hidden in Arabian oasis"

: "A drachm from the last king of Macedon, Perseus (179-168 BC). This coin was minted by a military mint, using the Rhodian standard, to pay for Cretan mercenaries during the Third Macedonian War against the Roman Republic."