Thysdrus is the latin name for El Djem, whose amphitheater was built in the 2nd century AD, 800 years later some guy called “J.Montl” among others while on a visit there decided to carve his name into the stone. In 1914, the same year the “Great War” broke out and 2 years before the Easter Rising. I thought that the Gladiator film was filmed here but apparently not.
J.Montl from somewhere on earth semi-immortalized in the stone of El Djem.
Best Roman ruins in Africa say the tourist blurb, and better preserved than the Coliseum, never been there so I couldn’t tell you.
The same year the Panama Canal was opened and the first ship to sail through was the SS Ancon seen below puffing out a load of black smoke.
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