Quiz

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Thanks for your patience and understanding gentlemen!

This body of water is not worth sailing to war on,
But in war it would be worth a thousand ships!
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[Flavivs Aetivs]

Uh... a well?

I suck at these things lol. I don't know anything about archaeological sites.

Is it in greece?

[PhilusEstilius]

Thinking about 1,000 ships could it be a well at Troy.

[Vindex]

I suck at these things lol. I don't know anything about archaeological sites.

But its a good way to learn, don't you think?

[Flavivs Aetivs]

True.

I'm thinking maybe the bay of lepanto? OR maybe actium.

[D B Campbell]

This body of water is not worth sailing to war on,
But in war it would be worth a thousand ships!

Looks like Greece, maybe the Peloponnese. Could it be a Mycenaean citadel? I'll go for Mycenae (although I don't remember seeing a well like that).

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Well, Brian was on the right track, but the wrong side.
Duncan, yes, you are Spot on!
This well/cistern, is actually right outside the entrance to the stairs to the underground cistern,
IIRC, these pics are a few years old. There is another entrance through the citidel walls from the small courtyeard this well and the underground cistern entance are in, I guess an escape/sally port.
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~Over to you.

[D B Campbell]

Duncan, yes, you are Spot on!

That really was a guess, Byron! I expected you to say that it was maybe Tiryns. (Hmm, there's an idea ... ;-) )

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Cool. I never would have guessed.

[D B Campbell]

Over to you.

This column didn't always sit on an elephant's back. Where is it and what building did it (probably) come from?
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[Tormenta]

It's looking familiar. Behind the Pantheon in Rome, if I remember correctly.
The obelisk probably from Egypt or transported by the Romans from there or from the Issis - Minerva temple that was somewhere near(guessing).

[D B Campbell]

It's looking familiar. Behind the Pantheon in Rome, if I remember correctly. The obelisk probably from Egypt or transported by the Romans from there or from the Issis - Minerva temple that was somewhere near(guessing).

Quite correct -- well done! It's an Egyptian obelisk supposedly marking the general area of Domitian's Temple of Isis, behind the Pantheon in Rome.

[Tormenta]

It shouldn't be difficult.
What and where? I already posted something similar earlier this year.

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[M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER]

Roman Wall in Emona/Ljubljana, Slovenia?

[jvrjenivs]

Roman Wall in Emona/Ljubljana, Slovenia?

That must be right, as I remember standing next to Miha when he was making that pic.