Showing at the Eric Morecambe Centre…
Dr Sam Moorhead: Ostia – Rome’s Best Kept Secret?
West of Rome, at the Tiber’s mouth, the impressive ruins of Ostia, Rome’s principal port. Amazingly preserved streets, massive granaries and warehouses, tenement blocks (best in the Empire), grand town houses, bath-houses and taverns: a bustling city. Temples dedicated oriental gods, fine mosaics & wall paintings rival Pompeii & Herculaneum
Dr Sam Moorhead, eminent archaeologist of Roman and Early Medieval eras,was Finds Adviser for Iron Age and Roman coins in the BM Portable Antiquities and Treasure Section, and Institute of Archaeology Honorary Lecturer, Voted Archaeologist of the Year 2011, he won the 2019 Royal Numismatic Society Medal. A prolific author & excavator UK and abroad
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