Overview
Every visitor to an archaeological site knows the difficulty, often indeed the impossibility, of imagining what it was like before its buildings were destroyed. The ruins are dead things; they speak their own language, which is romantic enough, but does not evoke a picture of the monuments in their original life and splendour.
This is a guide that will help him to see not only what a monument is, but, at the same time, what it was.
This is a guide that will help him to see not only what a monument is, but, at the same time, what it was.