#HillfortsWednesday & this is a bit of a hard one but who can identify this enclosure from about a kilometre up ? 😁

caught this while coming in to land last week

#MedievalMonday & the Venetian Tower of Vasiliko, Euboea 🇬🇷
If you look closely in the distance you can see 2 more from the network of Venetian towers across the Island

See more in the Euboea episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1J...

#MosaicMonday & another pebble mosaic from Euboea 🇬🇷 - this time at the archaeological museum of Chalkida
from Eretria, c3-2 BC - a man fighting a centaur

See more of Chalkida & the island in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1J...

#MosaicMonday with a beautiful pebble mosaic from c4 BC Eretria on Euboea 🇬🇷
depicting the nereid on a seahorse bringing weapons to achilles

Euboea Is not a place a lot of people know or hear about, you can see more of it here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1J...

#SundayStonework & the collection of early medieval capitals at Karababa Castle above Chalkida are some of the few remains of the ancient city whose walls & ancient structures were bulldozed thoughout the 19th & 20th centuries

See more of Euboea 🇬🇷 in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1J...

#AncientSiteSunday with Eretria, (not to be confused with the African nation) this polis on Euboea 🇬🇷 rivalled nearby Chalkida in the Classical era & was sacked by the Persians in 490 BC

See more of Euboea: the island most people don't know is even there >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1J...

#CastleSaturday with Karababa Castle 🇬🇷
Overlooking the Euripus straight and the town of Chalkida, on the isle of Euboea - the Greek island that most people haven't realised is an island

You can see more of it here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1J...

#RomanSiteSaturday & one of the most gorgeously located ancient basilicas I can think of
in the south of Kos 🇬🇷 the Basilica(s) of Agios Stefanos, c5-6 opposite the island of Kastri

See more ancient sites from around Greece (a lot more) in the playlist >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

(Can't believe i typed # 'Sunday' ...got so excited about #RomanSiteSaturday i wished it would go all weekend 😆 )

#RomanSiteSunday & a game of spot-that-civitas
saw this as we were flying in the weekend before last

answers on a postcard! 😊

#RuinedPrioryFriday with the Abbotsbury Abbey ruins, the huge barn, pond and other fragments surviving or incorporated into modern buildings

see more from Dorset in our new episode on spring in the Purbecks >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r994...

Also in the Gymnasium archaeological area of Kos 🇬🇷 for #FrescoFriday
These surviving Fresco fragments, sad to say they would've survived a lot better if they weren't still outside 😕

Loads more to see in our Greek playlist, ancient sites from around the Aegean >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#RomanRoadsFriday with these wonderful surviving streets around the Gymnasium on Kos 🇬🇷

Loads more to see in our Greek playlist inc. a new episode on Athens & Aegina Island >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Yay, we're back - anyone else unable to get on 🦋 for most of this morning?

also... its #AdoorableThursday still - so here's this from Palaio Pyli, Kos 🇬🇷

#AncientTheatreThursday with the Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus, on the slopes of the Acropolis, Athens

see more of Athens in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTmX...

#AdoorableThursday with this from the old town of Rhodes 🇬🇷

See more of Greece including Athens & the islands in the playlist >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#HillfortsWednesday with Twyn y Gaer Hillfort just outisde Brecon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

If you didn't see this at the time - catch our conversation with @drtobydriver.bsky.social on all things Hillforts & Wales >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...

#EpigraphyTuesday with this inscription from the Roman Agora in Athens

See more of Athens in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTmX...

#TombTuesday & had to go about 90 minutes on foot out of my way to catch this one, but worth it: the Mycenaean cemetery of Pilona, one of the most significant extant Mycenaean sites on Rhodes 🇬🇷

See more from Greece in the playlist >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#MedievalMonday with the c10 church of the Apostles of Solakis in Athens, on the southern edge of what was the Athenian Agora

See more of Athens & a lot more from around Greece in the playlist >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#MosaicMonday & these surviving fragments from a synagogue on Aegina Island 🇬🇷

See more of the ancient places on Aegina in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H89...

#MosaicMonday with these beautiful patterns sitting in the botanical gardens in Athens, left from a roman villa from c5 AD

see more of Athens in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTmX...

While I don't necessarily feel like the person to say this, i want to massively congratulate #Hungary for the result this evening
The freedom from Orban & the far right richly deserved

Egészségére ! 🇭🇺

while i'm not sure, based on what i've seen elsewhere my guess would be that these were segmented
...but still undoubtedly very impressive uniformity such that the seams are impercetable

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This is the north east of the site & the 'priests houses'

#AncientSiteSunday

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This is a plan of the site

#AncientSiteSunday

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Other than much older cult activity on the site, we know this temple was built on the burnt remains of a previous archaic temple as chunks of this older structure were built into a pediment for the new temple

#AncientSiteSunday

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The current temple has been dated to between 510-470 BC, there's an absence of written records about it, but it shares stylisitc hallmarks with other similar sites such as the Athenian treasury at Delphi (pictured right)

#AncientSiteSunday

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While its needed some help & restoration over the years, it is striking for the condition in which much of it has survived
& it really is a stunning location, overlooking the Saronic Gulf with Salamis & Sounion visible to the North

#AncientSiteSunday

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While the island is not exactly huge - it has an incredible Doric temple in its North eastern corner, the temple of Aphaia

#AncientSiteSunday