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This month's school field trip was to Ostia Antica, an ancient trade city located at the mouth of the Tiber. When I was growing up, the oldest thing in my life was a tree! Next | |
| Our guide was a teacher from the school, who explained, in Italian, that Ostia Antica started in the 4th Century B.C. This made my question about putting Madonnas in the niches particularly lame. 'Twas unlikely, she explained, that there would have been Madonnas in the centuries BEFORE Christ. | ||