Ostia Antica

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1. Story
2. Rome's river-mouth port and the physical junction between the sea network and the city. Its excavated warehouses, guild offices and the mosaic-floored Piazzale delle Corporazioni show shipping associations from across the Mediterranean operating in one square. Ostia silted and was superseded by Trajan's artificial hexagonal harbour at Portus, which is the practical answer to how a city of several hundred thousand ate.
3. Knowledge
4. Rome
5. Ostia Antica
6. Connections
7. Rome
8. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
9. The Roman Legion
10. Roman Law
11. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
12. Ostia Antica
13. Via Appia
14. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
15. Construction of the Via Appia begins
16. The Punic Wars
17. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
18. Assassination of Julius Caesar
19. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
20. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
21. Dedication of Constantinople
22. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
23. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
24. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
25. The Pantheon, Rome
26. The Pantheon dome spans about 43 m in unreinforced concrete
27. Evidence
28. The inscribed property covers the ancient civic and monumental core of Rome including the Fora, the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Mausoleum of Augustus, providing the geographic anchor for the city as an object.
29. Frontinus, as curator aquarum, describes the aqueducts serving Rome, their sources, lengths, administration, maintenance staff and the fraud he found in illegal tapping. It is the empire's clearest surviving evidence that infrastructure was run by an accountable civil office with records, not merely built.