#byzantine — Public Fediverse posts

On the road between Çavuşin and Zelve🇹🇷, we stop at Paşabağ, also called "Monks Valley". Here the landscape displays the amazing multi-headed mushroom rock formations, some 15-20m high into which monks carved cells in the #Byzantine period to live a solitary life.

#Travel #VirtualTravel #Cappadocia

The 3rd new #ancient #history magazine I'm introducing is "The Road to #Rome", about the #Roman, #Byzantine, and #Etruscan #cultures, launching with 110 stories like:

- Succession of the #RomanEmpire

- The #Gallic Wars

- 9 facts about #JuliusCaesar

- #Spartacus was a real #gladiator

- #Commodus, the Mad #Emperor

- 2k yr old #Roman road discovery in #Britain

- #Etruscans prayed at #sacred hot springs

- #Sex in ancient Rome

- Ovid & Catullus, #poetry & #scandal

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