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Ostia Antica (lit. ' Ancient Ostia ') is an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber. It is near modern Ostia, 25 km (16 mi) southwest of Rome. Due to silting and the invasion of sand, [clarification needed] the site now lies 3 km (2 mi) from the sea. [2] The name Ostia (the plural of ostium) derives from Latin ...
Ostia (/ ˈ ɒ s t i ə /, Italian:; officially Lido di Ostia) is a large neighbourhood in the Municipio X of the comune of Rome, Italy, near the ancient port of Rome, which is now a major archaeological site known as Ostia Antica. [2] Ostia is also the only municipio or district of Rome on the Tyrrhenian Sea, and many Romans spend the summer ...
Ostia Antica is the 35th zona of Rome, Italy, four kilometers away from the coast. It is identified by the initials Z. XXXV and it is distinct from Ostia . Ostia Antica belongs to Municipio X .
Portus was a large artificial harbour of Ancient Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber on the Tyrrhenian Sea.It was established by Claudius and enlarged by Trajan to supplement the nearby port of Ostia.
The Museo Archeologico Ostiense (or Archaeological Museum of Ostia) is an archaeological museum dedicated to the ancient Roman city of Ostia in Rome, Italy. The museum was built by Pope Pius IX, who in 1865 had to readapt a fifteenth-century building used as a store to create a city museum. Contained in the museum are numerous archaeological ...
The Via Ostiensis (Italian: via Ostiense) was an important road in ancient Rome.It runs west 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the city of Rome to its important sea port of Ostia Antica, from which it took its name.
Following President Donald Trump's return to office, immigration enforcement operations have started to sweep through major U.S. cities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it ...
Mosaic of Triton and a Nereid, Baths of Buticosus. This small bathhouse (I, XIV, 8) was constructed during the reign of Trajan circa 110 C.E. and remodeled in the middle of the second century C.E. [19] This bath is typical of many of the balnea in Ostia, where the rooms are built into the established city grid leading to a chaotic interior layout often without a palaestra.