The Severans
The Louvre in Paris has a rich display of busts of Roman Emperors and their Imperial families. Here are four of Severus, his wife Julia Domna, and his sons Caracalla and Geta (taken in iPhone portrait mode).
Archive for month: August, 2019
Beneath Alexandria Lies a Roman Necropolis in Stone
The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa reveal a city in flux—a place where Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures didn’t just coexist, but collided, fused, and reformed into something wholly Alexandrian
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