Quiz - Printable Version +- RomanArmyTalk (https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat) +-- Forum: Recreational Arena (https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/forumdisplay.php?fid=6) +--- Forum: Off-Topic (https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/forumdisplay.php?fid=18) +--- Thread: Quiz (/showthread.php?tid=21140) |
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-05-2013 Quote:I had never seen these watercolours, but I am glad I have now -- they are wonderful.Yes, they are! Quiz - D B Campbell - 01-05-2013 Quote:Over to you, Duncan :-DI must insist on passing this one over to Jona -- I would never have thought of Hallstatt. Quiz - Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-05-2013 I thought I had seen these posted on RAT once before...but had no idea where they were from! Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-06-2013 Quote:I must insist on passing this one over to Jona -- I would never have thought of Hallstatt.That's very gentlemanlike, so I will reply with a VERY easy question. This is a place in Lebanon. Bronze Age walls to the left, remains of a Crusader tower near the harbor, in the background. Where can this be? And which famous ancient visitor had to wait on this very spot for a month? [attachment=6215]1_2013-01-05.jpg[/attachment] Quiz - Athena Areias - 01-07-2013 I'll guess Ancient Tyre with an impatient Alexander the Great on the shore. Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-07-2013 Quote:I'll guess Ancient Tyre with an impatient Alexander the Great on the shore.No, Tyre, today, looks like this. The new photo was taken about hundred kilometers to the north. Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-07-2013 Oh damn... not Tyre but... Antioch maybe? Sidon? Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-07-2013 Quote:Oh damn... not Tyre but... Antioch maybe?Somewhere in between. Sidon is 35 km north of Tyre; Antioch 350. Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-07-2013 Byblos? Maybe Arados? Quiz - D B Campbell - 01-07-2013 Quote:The new photo was taken about hundred kilometers to the north.... which would be round about Beirut (ancient Berytus)? I suppose Titus must have hung around here in November AD 70 before returning to Rome in triumph. But I have a nagging feeling that he is not the person you mean. :unsure: Quiz - Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-07-2013 Byblos is about 100 km north... Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-08-2013 Quote:Byblos is about 100 km north...Yup, it's Byblos. The famous visitor was Wen Amun, who wrote one of the most interesting texts from ancient Egypt. Over to you Byron. Quiz - Nathan Ross - 01-08-2013 Didn't Evan mention Byblos about three posts back? Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-08-2013 Quote:Didn't Evan mention Byblos about three posts back?Yes. Sorry Byron. (Possible explanation: I have a fever.) Over to you Evan! Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-09-2013 Wohoo Finally, now i have to come up with an obscure archaeological site! Give me a little bit... EDIT: This one isn't obscure, but the best i can do. Here's a hint: I like walls. [attachment=6227]wall.jpg[/attachment] |