Digitizing the layers of Rome

When Junior Professor Catherine Teitz leaves the front door, she steps right into her research field. "I live in Mainz's ...
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Fly Over History: The Colosseum Like You’ve Never Seen It...

Have you ever seen a two-thousand-year-old sports arena from the sky? Welcome to Rome, where ancient history sits right in ...

Making sense of the pyramids’ enduring mysteries

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...
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Archaeologists Excavating a Roman Fort in Britain Discovered a Rare Red Gemstone Engraved With a Surprising Design

The intaglio was likely set in a signet ring and used to stamp correspondence at Bremenium, a military outpost located ...
Ancient Origins

4,000-Year-Old Pottery Reveals Early Advanced Society in Europe

The research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona analyzed pottery from key El Argar administrative centers including Tira del Lienzo and Ifre in Murcia province. According to the study ...
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2,000-year-old Roman tombstone found in New Orleans backyard

Sextus Congenius Verus, of the Bessi – a Thracian tribe known to Roman writers – served 22 years aboard the trireme Asclepius ...