The Canopus, an area named after the Egyptian city where Antinous drowned, features a long, stately reflecting pool representing the Nile. Emperor Hadrian’s villa, Tivoli, Italy
The Canopus, an area named after the Egyptian city where Antinous drowned, features a long, stately reflecting pool representing the Nile. Emperor Hadrian’s villa, Tivoli, Italy
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What is absolutely tragic is the city founded by Hadrian on the Red Sea Antintopolis survived up until the 18th/19th century. Had it not be mined for lime and concrete it would possibly exceed Pompeii in terms of pure splendour. It was preserved by the desert sands and Hadrian endowed it handsomely with temples, gardens, and libraries.
Locals burned down the marble and stone to make cement.
Similarly to the Pantheon or the Lighthouse of Alexandria it’s splendour early survived into modern days but it was not to bed.
(Gunpowder destroyed the Pantheon and an earthquake destroyed the Lighthouse).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinoöpolis