This photo comes from the h2g2 Post's collection of submissions to Create's November project. We'll be posting a photo a day for the month of November.

Here's a piece of history, courtesy of Superfrenchie, who takes her camera to Normandy. It must have been a bustling place in the days of the Roman Empire. I read that the theatre could hold 3,000 people. Just the place for an intimate rock concert, don't you think?

People have been staring at Roman ruins for a long time: In the Exeter Book, a tenth-century collection of poems in Old English, there's one about a Roman ruin. Here's part of it in translation:

This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it

courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying.

Roofs are fallen, ruinous towers,

the frosty gate with frost on cement is ravaged,

chipped roofs are torn, fallen,

undermined by old age. The grasp of the earth possesses

the mighty builders, perished and fallen,

the hard grasp of earth, until a hundred generations

of people have departed.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

Superfrenchie