Albumen print, pasted down to original card support, image size 415 x 315mm, card size 635 x 490mm, with the photographer's blindstamp lower margin recto, hand-annotated '8' in pencil.

We caught him trying to sneak out with the offerings to Jupiter. It’s all here in the temple records ... A painting of shops in a Roman street. With over one million people living there ...

Romans also had a set of public gods, such as Jupiter and Mars. State worship was much more formal: colleges of priests paid tribute to these gods on behalf of Rome itself. The objective of Roman ...

Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his ...