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Elephant in the synagogue: Iconography in thriving post-Temple community raises questions
How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was ...
Ancient rocks tie Roman Empire’s collapse to a mini ice age
Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...
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Bronze naval ram from Roman battle recreated using ancient techniques
Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...
Greek Reporter1d
Ancient Greek Hats: Headwear and Fashion in Antiquity
The ancient Greeks wore a variety of hats to protect them from the elements and to act as aesthetic embellishments ...
A Construction Crew Was Renovating a Soccer Field—and Found the Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Mass Grave From Roman-Era Battle Discovered Beneath a Soccer Field in Vienna
Archaeologists think that as many as 150 individuals may have been hastily buried at the site, likely after a "catastrophic" ...
Archaeologists uncover hundreds of bodies under soccer field in eerie find: 'Truly a battlefield'
Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...
Roman gladiator's lost tomb is FOUND in Italy after 2,000 years
Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...
Greek Reporter6d
The Five Ages of Ancient Greece: From Bronze to Hellenistic
Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...
A mass grave for fighters in a Roman Empire-era battle is revealed in Vienna
The bodies of 129 people have been confirmed at the site where construction crews had been churning up dirt to renovate a ...
Interesting Engineering6d
2,000-year-old Roman mass grave found beneath soccer field astonishes archaeologists
Archaeologists in Vienna discover a mass grave of Roman soldiers dating back 2,000 years, victims of a brutal defeat against ...
Mass grave of the Roman empire is found under a Vienna soccer field
Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago ...