Ruin Collection (page 66)

Walls of the Roman port of Richborough, 1st century
Walls of the Roman port of Richborough in Kent, 1st century

View of the Acropolis of Athens from the southwest, 5th century BC
View of the Acropolis of Athens from the southwest. Visible are the Propylaea and the temple of Athena Nike, 5th century BC

Shot of a Mithraic temple near Hadrians Wall
Carrawburgh Mithraic temple near Hadrians Wall. The concrete posts represent the original wooden roof supports

West corner of the Roman fortress at Caerleon, 2nd century
The west corner of the Roman fortress at Caerleon, showing barrack blocks, with latrine building in foreground, 2nd century

Foundation of a hypocaust, 3rd century
Foundation of a hypocaust - the underfloor heating system - at Fishbourne, 3rd century

Pevensey Castle, showing the Roman walls of the Saxon fort

Upper tiers of The Colosseum, Rome. A Flavian amphitheatre built between 70 and 82 AD during the reigns of the emperors Vespasian, Titus and Domitian, the Colosseum could seat some 50

Entrance of a tumulus at Mycenae, late Bronze Age, Greece, c1450-c1100 BC. Mycenae was a prehistoric Greek city discovered by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) in the 1870s

Jerome in the desert, late 15th century. Artist: Ercole de Roberti
Jerome in the desert, late 15th century. St Jerome (c340-420), a father of the Western Church and compiler of The Vulgate

South Sea Bubble, 1721. Artist: William Hogarth
South Sea Bubble, 1721. People queue to enter the Devils shop, while he cuts up Fortune. Clerics of various denominations gamble in the left foreground. People ride on a wooden hobby horse

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