Mosaic floor

Excavation has gone on for years at this site and is continuing. Thousands upon thousands of items have been found. Roman bath visitors often threw valuable jewelry into the waters in the belief that they were appeasing the gods in some way. All around the bubbling waters buildings were erected then built over time and time again. This nearly perfectly intact floor was found beneath nearly 30 feet of construction rubble.

Day Thirteen (Sweating through Bath, Stonehenge and London)

July 25th 2006
Despite the lack of air conditioning I got a good night's sleep in my rather modern looking hotel room. Breakfast was unexceptional again. I guess the breakfasts I find unappetizing are the continental ones. This morning's was primarily cereal products and toast. Give me bacon, eggs and baked beans every time. The morning was already stinking hot as we tried to repack the every expanding pile ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more

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