About our flickr group

Posted in Pictures with tags , on April 3, 2008 by romanitasdotnet

Temple of Saturn, Rome 2005 © All rights reserved Draco sub Rosa

I’d like to take a moment to pay tribute to the 111 people who currently comprise our photo sharing group within the pages of flickr.

To date they have jointly contributed 3286 photos from all 4 corners of the world (the Roman world and our modern world when you include pictures taken at museums), comprising pictures of Ancient Roman sites, artifacts, and basically anything Ancient Roman related.

They truly are beautiful pictures, and are being used as the basis for the Platial map - which I’ll cover in a future post - in order to put in one place a directory of all of the Roman remains that still exist today.

To join our flickr group simply sign up to flickr (which is free to do) and then join our group. There is also a discussion forum facility on the group pages which you’re more than welcome to use.

Looking forward to seeing more of your fantastic pictures of the Ancient Roman empire. Again many thanks.

Picture featured here is Temple of Saturn, Rome 2005 contributed by Draco sub Rosa ( © All rights reserved 2008 Draco sub Rosa ).

Welcome to the new Romanitas.net site!

Posted in Site with tags , , on April 2, 2008 by romanitasdotnet

Forum Romanum

We’re very pleased to announce our new home using the WordPress blogging tool.

Some of the main reasons for using WordPress (apart from it being free of course) are the ease by which it allows us to add del.icio.us news links, how it allows us to automatically give you a real-time preview of the latest photo to be added to our Flickr group pool, and the brilliant Platial atlas tool.

All of these three features are up and running in the sidebar on the right, but these are just a few of the many developments we aim to bring to this site. We’ll add posts detailing how you can interact with these tools moving forward, but for the time being sit back, relax, and by all means enjoy this site and get in touch if like us you too are fanatical about all things Ancient Roman!

Why not subscribe to our RSS link? Click on the link to the bottom right of the sidebar to get started.

Image: Foro Romano © 2005 Romanitas.net