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Founded by the Celts, Aquincum (today Budapest) became an important military and civic centre and the capital city of Pannonia Inferior. The city had 40,000-50,000 inhabitants, who built 2 amphitheaters, many baths and temples. It flourished in the 2nd and early 3rd centuries but later declined due to weakening imperial power and outside attacks. The city was largely destroyed by the late 4th century and in 409 AD, Germanic tribes and the Huns invaded the region.
I visited the Aquincum museum today and it was awesome as always.

I’m ugly, stupid and just hurt and drag down everybody.
I want to sh again and I can’t see any other way out than
What is even the point of living??

I mean, it wasn’t an amazing film, had its flaws, but it was a great film. The script wasn’t good, but Matt Damon does an amazing job imo, and the whole doom and gloom about Helen and Sinon (not even Achilles btw) was so exaggerated for the solid 3 minutes they’re in.

(3d reconstruction)
First mentioned in 802 AD, Kőszeg was an important centre of trade known for its wine production, leather- and metalworking and military importance.
Today, it’s a minor town of around 12,000 people, with an exceptionally well preserved medieval core.

Fantasy with dark age vibes, mysteries, a bit of spook and horror here and there.

Hi!

I like to revisit nearby ancient sites in Budapest every now and then and today I decided to walk up to the amphitheater of Canabae.
It‘s the bigger of the two Roman amphitheaters built in Aquincum, in an elliptical shape, measuring 132x108 meters (433x356ft). The city of Aquincum was home to about 50-60000 people in its height in the late 2nd century, the city was protected by 6000 legionaries.

The amphitheater was built during the reign and in honor of Emperor Antoninus Pius between 145 and 161 AD according to a relief found nearby. It could fit around 15000 spectators and it could be flooded to simulate naval battles using the underground water tunnel system.

After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, it was used as a fort by the Lombards and possibly by the Franks and the Magyars. However, by the later middle ages, the amphitheater was buried and the site was called Királydomb (“King hill”).

It was excavated in the 20th century and it‘s completely free to visit today (when I went there, I saw a bunch of guys playing football lol).

[you can see a drawing of its original appearance and the reconstruction of the city on the 9th and 10th slide]

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The graphics are from the Nuremberg Chronicle,
both cities were home to around 20,000 people at the time of the depictions.