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Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-14-2013
Wow seriously? No One's Replied?
Quiz - D B Campbell - 01-14-2013
Quote: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.
Quiz - Athena Areias - 01-14-2013
Also, some of us have no clue! Could we get one, please?
Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-15-2013
Oh Okay, I already hinted it was a wall. Another hint is that it's in the Balkans.
Quiz - Robert Vermaat - 01-16-2013
Quote: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.
NOT
Any date to this structure? Are those round shapes re-used columns perhaps?
Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-16-2013
It was rebuilt multiple times throughout it's history, but dates back to Ancient Greece.
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-16-2013
I am tempted to say that it's the wall across the Corinthian isthmus. Does that count as Balkan?
Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-17-2013
It is the Hexamilion wall. My next hint was "It was famous for never actually working."
![[Image: hexamilion.jpg]](http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmharrin/ASCSA/trip-4/hexamilion.jpg)
Over to you Jona.
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-17-2013
Quote:Over to you Jona.
![[Image: 1.JPG]](http://www.livius.org/a/1/WEG/1.JPG)
OK, here is a Roman fort. What's the ancient name, what's the modern name?
Quiz - Medicus matt - 01-17-2013
That's the Babylon fortress next to the Coptic museum in Cairo. No idea what the ancient name was though.
Quiz - Nathan Ross - 01-17-2013
Quote: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...
Quiz - Flavivs Aetivs - 01-18-2013
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.
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 01-18-2013
Quote: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.
Quiz - Medicus matt - 01-21-2013
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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Quiz - caiusbeerquitius - 01-21-2013
Caracalla´s baths in Rome?