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In ancient Smyrna, this channel once kept a city alive. Today, it still carries water through the agora, and even the local cats know it. Roman engineering was not built for ruins. It was built to endure.

Not one giant shoe. A pattern At Magna Fort near Hadrian’s Wall, 8 of the first 32 Roman shoes unearthed are over 30 cm long, and the largest reaches 32.6 cm, the biggest yet in the Vindolanda Trust collection. At nearby Vindolanda, only 0.4% of measurable shoes are that large. So what was Magna housing: unusually tall soldiers, a specialized unit, or a frontier population unlike the rest of Roman Britain?

Ancient Persia should be far more central to how we tell the story of civilization. This is the Gate of All Nations at Persepolis, built under Xerxes I in the 5th century BCE, where empire, art, language, and power met in stone. Yet Persia is still too often reduced to a footnote in Greek history instead of recognized as one of the ancient world’s greatest cultural centers. Why do you think ancient Persia is still so overlooked?

Ancient Greece left behind many masterpieces. This may be its most fascinating failure. On Naxos, a colossal 10.7-meter marble figure was carved, shifted downhill, and then abandoned in its own quarry. Even now, scholars still debate who the god was and why the project died. What stopped them: flawed stone, impossible transport, or something else?

Konya still holds one of Anatolia’s strangest stone memories. At Fasıllar, a massive Hittite colossus from the 13th century BC lies on the hillside, while a Roman inscription nearby proves the same place still mattered long after the Hittite world faded. Was this landscape chosen for power, belief, or both?

At Aizanoi’s Temple of Zeus in Kütahya, Medusa was not carved as decoration alone. In Greco-Roman belief, her face was apotropaic: a warning to evil and a guardian of sacred space. Nearly 2,000 years later, she still watches from stone. Monster, protector, or both?

@Selennnnnnnnnns Yes modern day Izmir, Türkiye.

@HistContent Did you mean İzmir, Turkey?

In ancient Smyrna, this channel once kept a city alive. Today, it still carries water through the agora, and even the local cats know it. Roman engineering was not built for ruins. It was built to endure.

@WittySailor Yup :)

@HistContent Could we call it “now İzmir” as well? 😉

Rome’s Lost Sarcophagi Beneath the Sea A Roman shipment meant for the living became a monument for the sea. Off San Pietro in Bevagna, unfinished marble sarcophagi still rest where a cargo vessel went down in the 3rd century AD, likely before reaching Rome.

@4everwalkalone Same here :(

March 18 completely missing. Impression counts more pathetic than they've ever been. Went from 60-100k daily to ... not even 10? Not even 5?? Hearing the same from many others. I'm starting to think it's manipulated so that none but the biggest accounts can maintain their 5M/3mo. No matter what we do or say.

The Vinča culture left behind figurines that still do not look fully human. Created in the Neolithic Balkans around 5300 to 4500 BCE, many have pentagonal or triangular faces, accentuated eyes, and abstract bodies that make them feel uncannily ahead of their time. Their meaning remains uncertain, which is exactly why they still fascinate.

Built around 6,000 years ago in Antequera, Spain, the Dolmen of Menga still defies easy explanation. Why does this colossal tomb face a mountain, and why is there a deep well inside its chamber?

Rome still remembers Julius Caesar. Killed on the Ides of March in 44 BC, he is still honored with coins and flowers in the Roman Forum more than 2,000 years later. Did Brutus save Rome, or end the Republic?

@JSYKRobert @elon @X @premium same

As of yesterday around midday my analytics stopped working. It's not even showing today's date. I've uninstalled the app, reinstalled, cleared the cache, and even looked on Web version. Please help @elon, @x, @premium

.@premium .@Support .@elonmusk .@nikitabier Analytics 7D view is stuck - only shows data up to March 17. No metrics at all for March 18 or today (March 19), even though my account is fully active and posting. Alt account updates normally. Tried everything: logout/login, hard refresh, cache clear, incognito, different browsers, direct links. Screenshot attached. Please help escalate 🙏