A diptich made from two photos of signs at Histria. Here is what the English text says: 

”Histria — the oldest town on the territory of present-day Romania — was founded by Greek colonists from Miletus around the middle of the 7th century BC, and abandoned by its latest inhabitants in the second half of the 7th century AD. In the course of more than 1,300 years of uninterrupted living, five successive precinct walls defended the city, according to the great historical periods that were crossed (Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Early Roman and Late Roman periods). Inside the respective precincts, remarkable monuments were uncovered, beginning with Green temples and altars and continuing with Roman baths, civil basilicas, rich individual houses, Christian churches, as well as a bishopric cathedral. The richness and variety of discovered monuments and archaeological finds (exhibited in the local museum) make Histria a genuine Romanian Pompeii. The archaeological excavations — started by the great Romanian historian Vasile Parvan in 1914 do not cease to reveal new evidence of the brillian Greek-Roman civilization, the matrix of present-day European civilization.”


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