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Archaeologists In Italy Just Unearthed A Large Roman Swimming Pool Beneath A School
Excavations of the ground floor of a school in Vibo Valentia, Italy recently revealed an opulent room containing columns and ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
But, in reality, ancient Greeks and Romans embraced bold colors, which archaeologists call “polychromy.” Brightly hued paints ...
Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe
The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs.
Study suggests ancient hominins used unmodified volcanic rock spheres as tools
A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...
Greek Reporter1d
The Etruscan-Roman Wars and the Crucial Role of Ancient Greeks
The Etruscans and Romans were fierce rivals and clashed in pivotal wars. What were the major battles that defined this ...
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed
Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...
Divers Found a 3,000-Year-Old Statue at the Bottom of a Lake—With Fresh Human Fingerprints
At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to ...
Iron shackles found in Egypt reveal forced labor in ancient gold mines
In 2023, a team of archaeologists from the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, led by historian Bérangère Redon, found iron shackles during excavations in Ghozza, a mining settlement in Egypt's ...