Quiz

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Wow seriously? No One's Replied?

[D B Campbell]

No One's Replied?

Probably no-one noticed you'd posted one, because you edited a previous post. Many of us only get alerted when a new post appears.

[Athena Areias]

Also, some of us have no clue! Could we get one, please?

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Oh Okay, I already hinted it was a wall. Another hint is that it's in the Balkans.

[Robert Vermaat]

Oh Okay, I already hinted it was a wall. Another hint is that it's in the Balkans.

A wall in the balkans, now all becomes much more clear to me.
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Any date to this structure? Are those round shapes re-used columns perhaps?

[Flavivs Aetivs]

It was rebuilt multiple times throughout it's history, but dates back to Ancient Greece.

[Jona Lendering]

I am tempted to say that it's the wall across the Corinthian isthmus. Does that count as Balkan?

[Flavivs Aetivs]

It is the Hexamilion wall. My next hint was "It was famous for never actually working."



Over to you Jona.

[Jona Lendering]

Over to you Jona.

OK, here is a Roman fort. What's the ancient name, what's the modern name?

[Medicus matt]

That's the Babylon fortress next to the Coptic museum in Cairo. No idea what the ancient name was though.

[Nathan Ross]

That's the Babylon fortress next to the Coptic museum in Cairo. No idea what the ancient name was though.

Babylon Fortress, maybe? ;-)

How much of that brickword is original? It looks remarkably like it's made of Lego...

[Flavivs Aetivs]

According to google search the original name might mean "Babylon in Egypt?"

Also probably a lot of it is original, the Theodosian walls still stand in many places because the layers of Clay Bricks absorbed shock from earthquakes, although I agree that in the photo it appears to be part-reconstruction.

[Jona Lendering]

That's the Babylon fortress next to the Coptic museum in Cairo.

Indeed; and it was called Babylon, as far as I know.

And indeed, it looks a bit too much repaired.

Over to you Matt.

[Medicus matt]

Not too difficult this one but I'm away from home and am limited to a fraction of my photolibrary.
A less than obvious view of one of my favourite Imperial buildings....


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[caiusbeerquitius]

Caracalla´s baths in Rome?