On this date: Two millennia later, the 3rd Punic War ends
In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...
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Archaeologists In Sicily Just Unearthed A Plaster Mold Used To Make Medusa Masks 2,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily were recently exploring the remains of the ancient Greek colony Finziade when they came ...
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Archaeologists Uncover Roman Mask Mold Depicting Medusa, Say It Was Used as a Protective Charm
Archaeologists Uncover Roman Mask Mold Depicting Medusa, Say It Was Used as a Protective Charm The archaeological site of ...
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On this date: Two millennia later, the 3rd Punic War ends
and Warmongers in the Roman Senate finally prodded Rome into the Third Punic War. Unlike the previous two wars, which involved much maneuvering and pitched battles (the Second Punic War saw the ...
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Ancient Roman helmet turns up in unusual location: 'Exceptionally rare'
Archaeologists recently found an ancient Roman helmet in an unusual location ... "The manner in which the war equipment was buried suggests it was an offering to higher powers," the release ...
‘Disgust’ among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll
Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...
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Rome's Ancient Catacombs
A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...
Pope lists tragedies of children in war and trafficking at a rights summit
Pope Francis has convened a high-level summit to demand that children be protected from war, forced labor, trafficking and ...
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How one language family took over the world: ancient DNA traces its spread
For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...
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Did the Trojan War Really Happen?
Did the Trojan War really happen? Scholars continue to debate this, but establishing the true chronology of the legend might be the solution.
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Pompeii's dark omen: Ancient footprints show people had to escape an eruption of Mount Vesuvius 1,800 years BEFORE the one that buried the famous Roman city
Some of the balconies even had amphorae - the conical-shaped terra cotta vases that were used to hold wine and oil in ancient Roman times. The discovery has been hailed as a 'complete novelty ...