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Ostia

Roman · Italy

Field notes

civilizations: Roman
types: City
built: 700 BCE
occupied: 700 BCE — 800 CE
country: Italy

The site

Ostia was the Roman port city at the mouth of the Tiber, occupied over many centuries from around 700 BCE. As Rome's harbour town it grew into a busy commercial hub, and its remains preserve the ordinary fabric of Roman urban life: apartment dwellings, bathhouses, a theatre and the wharves of a working port. The city's ruins offer a rare, grounded picture of how Romans lived and traded.

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