Reconstructed/revisualized street view of the south part of the city of Ammaia. Courtesy 7reasons
Reconstructed/revisualized street view of the south part of the city of Ammaia. Courtesy 7reasons
It looks like a Call Of Duty 2 map.
Until they can smell the pee and poo and fend
off the beggar-bums.. well, good job anyway.
Too cool for words!
This is really, really cool. The town is due east of Lisbon, not far from the Spanish border. It appears to have been a relatively small, provincial town. A backwater, really. So, it shows what an ordinary Roman town would have looked like.
Surprised no one has built a Williamsburg style; living; Roman town.
Same thing with in Egypt.
Very cool.
bfl
They have an ampitheater almost 3 stories tall, It’s just the biggest Roman town in all of Portugal, They’ve gone about as fer as they can go...They’ve gone about as fer as they can go.
The video can be seen at this link
Link here
Very interesting town.
When I lived in Rota, Spain, the Navy sponsored a trip to the ruins of Colonia, what had been a small Roman town along the Strait of Gibraltar. It was famous in the Republic and Empire for its fermented tuna fish sauce. The town had an active pottery sector which created the ceramic jars that held the sauce.
The main street of Colonia resembled the street depicted in Ammaia, but there were only the curbs of stone - no buildings - as the buildings had all collapsed due to earthquakes. The main street was stone paving, like is depicted in Ammaia, but the stones were not aligned but rippled. Colonia is a very active earthquake area.
Colonia ceased to exist as a town when the fish moved on. Tuna is fickle that way.
