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One of the Most Iconic Stories of British Heroic Resistance Against the Romans Debunked: It Never Happened
A new archaeological investigation casts doubt on one of the most emblematic accounts of the Roman conquest of Britain, ...
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Interpretatio Graeca, the way the Greeks identified the gods of other religions with their own
It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn’t exactly like that; it was an assimilation that had begun in Etruscan ...
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Roman Roads Continued to Be Used in Medieval England for Over a Thousand Years After the Fall of the Empire
The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...
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The Tomb of Amphipolis built by Alexander the Great for Hephaestion was found to be aligned with the winter solstice
View of the Amphipolis tomb with the recovered elements spread out on the southwest side, ready to be placed. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Greece From the time of its discovery, there had been ...
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Peoples of Northeastern Iberian Peninsula Refused to Adopt Greek Techniques for Producing Bronze 4,000 Years Ago
A study led by Julia Montes-Landa and an international team of archaeologists, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, analyzed bronze production techniques, an alloy of copper (Cu) and ...
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A Vast Merovingian Cemetery Used for Over Seven Centuries Found at the Site Where Chilperic I Was Assassinated
In Noisy-le-Grand, about 15 kilometers east of Paris, lies one of the most extensive and best-preserved Merovingian-era medieval cemeteries in Île-de-France, the necropolis of Les Mastraits. Its first ...
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Executive Order 6102: How Roosevelt Forced Citizens to Hand Over Their Gold to the State
U.S. gold coins known as double eagle. Their minting was completed in 1933. Credit: Portable Antiquities Scheme / Wikimedia Commons In 1933, a document circulated throughout the United States in the ...
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The longest prehistoric journey undertaken by humans lasted thousands of years and spanned several generations
The greatest journey in human history was not made in a row, or perhaps it was. Credit: Google Gemini / labrujulaverde.com An international team of scientists has managed to reconstruct the longest ...
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Ancient Marble Sculpture Workshop from the Hellenistic Period Discovered on the Island of Paros, with Numerous Unfinished Statues
Remains of the sculpture workshop found in Paros. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, ...
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30 Vessels from the Urnfield Culture Discovered Beneath a Road in Germany
One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH) Archaeological excavations carried out during the construction of a drainage channel on the K17 road connecting the towns of ...
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Small objects from 3300 years ago had only been found in the wreck of the Uluburun, now also in a tomb in Cyprus
Chamber Tombs VV, XX, YY, ZZ, and AB East and West during excavation, the artifacts are in the circle. Credit: Peter M. Fischer and Rainer Feldbacher / Lucia Avial Chicharro Archaeologists found five ...
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Fragments of a large relief showing King Ashurbanipal with Assyrian gods, found in ancient Nineveh
The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris River within the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in northern ...