For Tracy's meme in Brisbane

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Are our streets really "paved with gold"?

Jerusalem's Old City by night is full of shadows.
Here the striations (grooves) in the 3rd century Roman pavement make nice shadows.
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In a previous post you can see more of these paving stones and read how they came to be incorporated in today's Via Dolorosa.
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For Tracy's meme, Shadow Shot Sunday.
Tracy lives in Brisbane. Please pay her a visit or contribute a shadow to brighten her day.
She suggests contributing to the Queensland flood relief appeal.
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God bless Australia in this difficult time!

Roman paving stones on the Via Dolorosa

This is how the narrow lanes of Jerusalem's Old City look today. Modern pavement. This big improvement was made in 1977.

Some tourists walk on this plaque in one street without noticing. But it gives great news!

During the Jerusalem Municipality's development work in 1977, they discovered Roman paving stones on a lower level. Stones from the 3rd or 4th century!

They were brought up and incorporated into the present street level in a few places. Brilliant! Now you really feel like you are walking on history!

This land was part of the Roman Empire from 63 BCE to 313 CE.

The Romans made grooves, striations, to prevent horses from slipping.

But the smooth stone of both the old and the new pavements is slippery, especially when wet.

Walking on Roman pavement is just a normal thing for the Old City residents, but I still get excited every time my feet touch them.

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