#elusa

Je reviens à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 54110 photos (nouveau compte )

2014. Comme chaque année, je passe quelques jours chez Christine à Pau.

About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage.

Archaeologists recently investigated accumulated refuse in trash mounds at a Byzantine settlement called Elusa in Israel's Negev Desert. They found that the age of the trash introduced an intriguing new timeline for the Byzantine decline, scientists reported in a new study.

About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage.

Archaeologists recently investigated accumulated refuse in trash mounds at a Byzantine settlement called Elusa in Israel's Negev Desert. They found that the age of the trash introduced an intriguing new timeline for the Byzantine decline, scientists reported in a new study.

Je reviens à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 54110 photos (nouveau compte )

2014. Comme chaque année, je passe quelques jours chez Christine à Pau.

Around 2,400 years ago, the great city of Elusa arose in the heart of the Negev Desert, at the crossing point of two great trading routes: the Incense Road and the biblical Way of Shur. Elusa presumably began, as desert cities do, with a village built around an oasis. That particular area is rich in groundwater. At first a village of pagans worshipping Venus, Aphrodite (locally named al-Allat) and the like, the people there would convert to Christianity in the 4th century C.E.

We can be confident that this particular set of ruins in the heart of what is now an Israeli army firing zone is the actual Elusa (Haluza to Hebrews and al-Khalasa in Arabic) because archaeologists have now found an inscription in Greek naming the place, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday.

Much is unknown about the inscription other than its existence, but it seems to date to Emperor Diocletian’s reign, around 1,700 years ago, when the great 10th Roman Legion was being moved from inside Israel to Aqaba, which led to a lot of development in the region, the archaeologists explain.

Je reviens à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 54110 photos (nouveau compte )

2014. Comme chaque année, je passe quelques jours chez Christine à Pau.

Une virée dans le Gers, pour visiter la villa romaine de Séviac, non loin d’Eauze.

Villa de Seviac : le renouveau

Dans la famille des mosaïques gallo-romaines incontournables,  celles de la Villa de Séviac : une des plus vastes et luxueuses résidences du Sud-ouest de la Gaule dans le Gers. Ces exceptionnels tapis de mosaïques polychromes ornant sols et galeries à Montréal du Gers valent un beau détour.

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