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Archaeologists Uncover Two Nearly Life-Size Statues Carved Into the Wall of a Tomb in Ancient PompeiiThe figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...
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A Gladiator’s Marble-Etched Epitaph Is Found in an Ancient Roman NecropolisThe graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.
Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a ...
Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...
The recycled buildings of Rome, long dismissed by architects, are getting a reappraisal as a model for how to reduce waste ...
Collapse of a portion of the ancient Telesia city wall in the territory of San Salvatore Telesino. Following the incident, ...
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Ancient Drawings Of Stick-Figure Gladiators Likely Made By Children Uncovered At The Ruins Of PompeiiWhile excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...
Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.
Recent excavations in Lefkada, Greece, revealed the first-ever ancient Greek theater discovered in the Ionian Islands.
Although architectural recycling was common practice throughout antiquity, many of the spolia churches date from centuries after the heyday of Ancient Rome, when the city’s population was ...
The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.
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