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Sacra Via — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Jun 05, 2022 09:38 PM

The Sacra Via (Sacred Way) is one of Rome's oldest urban streets and its main sacred route, extending from the top of the Velia (summa Sacra Via) to the Forum Romanum.

Sanctuary of Poseidon at Tainaron — by Tom Elliott — last modified Jan 20, 2022 09:27 PM

A famous ancient sanctuary of Poseidon located at the southern end of the modern Mani peninsula of the Peloponnese. Literary and archaeological evidence indicate that the sanctuary featured a temple, a cave treated as a mouth of the underworld, and other structural and monumental components. It seems to have served as a sanctuary site for suppliants and a context for the formal manumission of enslaved persons.

Stanegate — by Scott Vanderbilt — last modified Nov 17, 2023 10:21 PM

An important Roman military road built in what is now northern England, linking Corbridge in the east and Carlisle in the west. A later western addition may have linked the fort at Kirkbride.

Tripolis — by J.P. Brown — last modified Dec 30, 2023 10:50 AM

The Phoenicians established a commercial outpost at Tripolis (Tripoli) in the ninth century BC. An independent city during the Hellenistic period, Tripolis came under Roman control in 64 BC.