Re-evaluation of 2nd century Colchester vase fleshes out Roman-era gladiator fights in Britain
An inscription on the vase names gladiators Memnon and Valentinus, suggesting it commemorates a real combat event in ...
Archaeologists Unearthed Five Lost Statues From Remains of the Roman Empire’s Sculpture ...
Excavations across the ancient city of Perga revealed five new statue finds from as far back as the second century A.D. The ...
This is what a surgical clinic looked like in ancient Rome
Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...
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Roman-Egyptian Individuals Had Their Color Portraits Done Before Being Mummified; They Were ...
Roman-Egyptian Individuals Had Their Color Portraits Done Before Being Mummified; They Were Advanced in Time General Pitt ...
London’s Roman ruins are increasingly accessible – here’s where to see them
The best stretches are just north of the Tower of London (by Tower Hill tube station) and in Noble Street and Wallside where the Roman army had its fortress. The surviving segments are impressive, a ...
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Maes Titianus, the Merchant Who Organized the First Roman Expedition to China
Trade has been, since time immemorial, one of the main driving forces behind contact between civilizations. In this context, ...
From ancient emperors to modern presidents, leaders have used libraries to cement their ...
Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including the Forum of Peace in Rome, dedicated by Emperor Vespasian; the Library of ...
Spectacular statues reveal art tradition of ancient Rome’s lost sculpture capital
City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern Mediterranean coast was renowned in ancient world for production of marble statues ...
The maverick historian revolutionising our view of sex and Christianity
Diarmaid MacCulloch on faith, rethinking homosexuality in Christianity – and what ‘being battered by the Church’ has taught ...
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America’s real sister act
When we narrate the history of the church from the perspective of Black nuns,” says historian Shannen Dee Williams, “myths about the Catholic past fall quickly and they ...
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The Apocrypha?
Before the 2nd century, most Palestian Jews preferred a ... 129:8] References [A&W] John Ankerberg & John Weldon, The Facts on Roman Catholicism (Eugene, OR; Harvest House Publishers, 1993).
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Cleveland Museum of Art will return looted Greco-Roman bronze to Turkey
(The sculpture was previously believed to depict the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, and date from the final decades of the 2nd century.) In 2023, the Antiquities Tracking Unit of the Manhattan ...