Chilling at the airport and noticed there was a perfectly hexagonal pond nearby.. i was thinking maybe it was related to some kind of industrial thing, and i was right, but i didnt expect it to be 1900 years old
Chilling at the airport and noticed there was a perfectly hexagonal pond nearby.. i was thinking maybe it was related to some kind of industrial thing, and i was right, but i didnt expect it to be 1900 years old 21 comments
omg and there's a whole city where the outer habour was? https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=lago+traiano&ia=web&iaxm=maps @moira yeah i guess they dug up some roman ships while building the airport and there’s a little museum for them @hannah that's so weird i mean i guess the river carried down a lot of soil and it all filled in that way but that's a lot of _far_ and now there's a _city_ and it's only 1900 years. and yet: hexagonal lake? _that's_ fine somehow. @moira @hannah "Around 50% of the known ancient Mediterranean harbour-locations are not used anymore today (within a radius of 1500 m around the location of the ancient harbour). Around 15% of the ancient Mediterranean harbours are now silted-up, of which ca. 75% are not used anymore today. " 2000 years of silt can make a port disappear. https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/ancient-port-structures/silting-up/ @hannah Whenever I watch one of those antique guys shows imported from the US on TV and they are like "Oh, this is an original Jefferson Davis chair, almost 200 years old. A real antique with a lot of history." I am like "Seriously, mate? I can't even dig to plant a tree in the village's house without finding Hannibal's watch or some shit!" @holyramenempire @hannah they were trying to setup some cool Myst puzzles but didn't have enough time to finish it in their age @hannah there was a bbc documentary about that, with Dan Snow and Sarah Parcak (she of space-based archaeology fame). BBC's page here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pc063 but sadly the programme itself doesn't seem to be online anywhere. (and yikes, but searching youtube for roman empire content brings out all the White trash!) @hannah Trajan seems to have been a prolific builder. I live next to the (party restored) ruins of the Colonia Ulpia Traiana and it's quite impressive. |
@hannah that is very cool!