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In a significant archaeological find, a collection of sixteen ancient artifacts dating back to the Iron Age and Roman periods has been officially declared treasure by H.M. Senior Coroner for North-West Wales, Ms. Kate Robertson. The announcement was made on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, casting a spotlight on a historic find that promises to rewrite the narrative of early British history.
ancient-origins - 01/03/2024 - 13:54
Hannibal Barca was a Carthaginian general who lived between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. He is perhaps best remembered for his military campaign against the Romans in the Second Punic War. Thanks to Hannibal’s capable leadership, the Carthaginians won several significant victories against the Romans, and succeeded in seizing parts of southern Italy.
dhwty - 12/06/2021 - 22:55
Lars Porsena was an Etruscan ruler mentioned in the earliest accounts of Roman history. His story is associated with Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and last semi-legendary king of Rome. Lars Porsena is also connected to the ancient city of Clusium, located in Tuscany, Italy. In the ancient sources, this Etruscan ruler is said to have been buried in this city. An elaborate description of Lars Porsena’s tomb is provided, though its exact location, assuming the tomb exists, has yet to be identified.
dhwty - 11/02/2021 - 13:51
Archaeologists in Italy were “impressed” with their discovery of a hydraulic system beneath a luxury Roman villa that was covered in the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius. However, they were “shocked” when they realized that it hadn’t moved in almost 2,000 years.
ashley cowie - 09/11/2022 - 02:00
Archaeologists in England have announced the remains of an ancient Roman villa and bath house buried beneath what will become a new supermarket.
ashley cowie - 18/03/2023 - 13:55
The Romans, along with their successors the Byzantines, occupied the Levant for almost 800 years and left many preserved remains.
Ed Whelan - 08/09/2019 - 01:40
Dark Age Britain has been remembered as a time of great chaos and constant war. After the Romans withdrew from Britain in 410 AD, taking the stability of their imperial structures and large armies with them, the patchwork of remaining British kingdoms descended into a fight for supremacy and the Roman defenses no longer held at bay the raiders from the north.
Meagan Dickerson - 17/07/2021 - 14:58
An extraordinary discovery in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, has stunned archaeologists and scientists worldwide: a 1,700-year-old egg, is the only intact specimen from Roman Britain, and now considered the only one of its type globally, as its contents are still preserved. This remarkable find was made during an archaeological dig between 2007 and 2016, ahead of a housing development project.
Ed Whelan - 13/02/2024 - 21:42
Courtship rituals have existed as long as the concept of romantic love. Such rituals exist to allow couples to get to know each other, and to allow an intimate relationship to develop. In modern, Western-influenced societies, a ‘date’ may be regarded as a form of informal courtship ritual. Nevertheless, many courtship rituals around the world are more formal in nature. Some of these courtship traditions have survived till this day while others have died out.
dhwty - 20/11/2018 - 18:50
Ancient regulars of the world’s oldest profession may have grown bored with the “usual” items on the coitus menu. That may be why ancient Rome enjoyed a thriving sexual ecosystem with robust variety and a market for all kinds of Roman prostitutes. Yet the dynamic sexual menu, made infamous from excavations at Pompeii, is given little to no mention in history, particularly when it comes to the Bustuaries or graveyard prostitutes.
B. B. Wagner - 29/10/2020 - 23:49
Almost everyone at the Istanbul Topkapi Palace was a slave, but this is not the only curious attribute the palace had when ruled by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Everyone was forced to learn and use only sign language. Why could this be? This article examines how sign language was first introduced at the Topkapi Palace under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and why sign language was exclusively spoken at the palace.
Patricia Raswant - 20/03/2021 - 17:58
Oman is the oldest independent nation in the Arab world and ... that date from the pre-gunpowder era in the Middle East. Oman is the oldest independent nation in the Arab world and ... Ages. It is the only UNESCO World Heritage-listed fort in Oman, a testament to its unique character. Bahla Fort’s ...
Ed Whelan - 26/01/2020 - 01:59
Ancient Roman houses—at least those of the wealthy—were built not just for comfort but also to impress. Many design elements and “tricks” were employed to enhance or hide specific parts of the house from the gaze of visitors. This aspect of Roman architectural design, though known to scholars from historical records, is a challenge to study from existing ruins.
Sahir - 24/03/2022 - 00:00
The Maison Carrée (which means ‘Square House’ in French) is an ancient monument located in Nîmes, a city in the Occitanie region of southern France. This building was built during the 1st century BC, when France, then part of Gaul, was ruled by the Romans. The Maison Carrée originally served as a temple, though its function changed several times over millennia. It is due to its almost constant use throughout the ages that the survival of this ancient building has been ensured.
dhwty - 23/03/2017 - 18:04
While performing excavations near the city of Biharia, Romania, archaeologists working for the Tarii Crisurilor Museum in Oradea unearthed a prehistoric grave that dates far back into antiquity, museum officials announced. The burial was of a woman from the ancient Copper Age Tiszapolgár culture, which occupied the lands of Romania and southeastern Europe between 4,500 and 4,000 BC.
Nathan Falde - 16/08/2022 - 15:00
Recently, two amazing discoveries were made in the commune of Epagny Metz-Tessy, in the Haute-Savoie department in southeastern France, near Annecy. After an SNC group carried out routine inspections and excavations prior to giving the all-clear on new housing construction on the site, they stumbled upon two Roman funeral pyres from the 1st century AD. The burial artifacts included a stunning Roman military ruler’s curule chair and furniture associated with the upper classes.
Sahir - 06/04/2021 - 18:49
Over the last few decades, archaeologists from Bulgaria and Poland have been performing excavations at the site where the Roman legionary fortress of Novae once stood. The ruins of the fortress can be found in northern Bulgaria along the Danube River, where Roman occupiers established and defended a territorial border 2,000 years ago.
Nathan Falde - 30/09/2022 - 22:53
Although the ancient Romans were the first people to have had a fire brigade, they did not have a police force (apart from a night-watch). Thus, victims of minor crimes such as petty theft had to fend for themselves and seek retribution by their own means. The most common way of doing so was by calling on the gods to punish the thief with a curse tablet.
dhwty - 14/04/2015 - 15:00
In the year 193 AD an auction took place that sent shockwaves throughout the ancient world, as buyers competed for the greatest prize of a generation, the Roman Empire. Following the murder of emperor Pertinax by his own sworn protectors, the Praetorian Guard, the illustrious Roman Empire, like a piece of prime real estate, was put up for sale, to be given to the highest bidder. In the end, Didius Julianus, a wealthy and influential senator, would emerge as the winner.
Jake Leigh-Howarth - 28/06/2022 - 22:44
Living in the Mediterranean, daily life in ancient Rome revolved around the climate. Unlike the more northern Europeans of the past and today, the ancient Romans started their days early in the morning and finished work by the early afternoon, as it would have been much too hot to continue their work later into the day.
John S. Richardson - 14/02/2021 - 12:38