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Under the ruins of the Baths of Trajan in Rome, a group of archaeologists found in 1998 a large fresco. Despite its deplorable state, a result of moisture and water leaks, the painting clearly showed the representation of a city. Years later the news reached the Spanish archaeologist Ángel Ventura, professor at the University of Cordoba, who took on the difficult challenge of determining which city of ancient Rome it could be. He checked a large amount of textual sources and compared the painting with images of the major Mediterranean port cities of that time. After an exhaustive work, he concluded that the 'cittá dipinta' was Gades, the Roman Cadiz (Andalusia, Spain). More information, in Spanish: http://terraeantiqvae.com/profiles/blogs/gades-la-ciudad-pintada Cheers, Hispalois Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:09:25 +0000 Subject: Terrae Antiqvae Revista de Arqueología e Historia From: terraeantiqvaeb...@yahoo.es To: hispal...@hotmail.com Terrae Antiqvae Terrae Antiqvae Revista de Arqueología e Historia Gades, la ciudad pintada Posted: 23 Dec 2011 02:16 AM PST Bajo los restos de las termas de Trajano, en Roma, un grupo de arqueólogos halló en 1998 un fresco de gran tamaño. A pesar de su deplorable estado, resultado de la humedad y las filtraciones de agua, la pintura mostraba claramente la representación de una ciudad con mar. Años después la noticia llegó a oídos… Seguir leyendo... Wikipedia: language definition: the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community. →
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