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See hundreds of ancient stolen treasures seized from traffickers, now on display in Naples
Once looted from tombs, hidden in homes, and trafficked across borders, the precious artefacts that were stolen from Italy’s ...
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Melted, minted, miscounted: How one piece of gold can span millennia
Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...
A Man Spent 6 Years Searching the Same Farm—and Finally Discovered a 1,900-Year-Old Roman Treasure
A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...
Ancient Rome Used High Tariffs to Raise Money Too – and Created Other Economic Problems Along the Way
As the Roman Empire expanded and became richer, its wealthy citizens demanded increasing amounts of luxury items, especially ...
Ancient settlement reveals remains of 1,800-year-old dog, baffling experts: ‘Preserved quite well’
Archaeologists also found a number of other artifacts at the site – including the bones of a different dog, the remains of a ...
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Rome’s Inequality Was Bad. But China’s Han Dynasty Was Even Worse
Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...
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Why is the pope called Pontifex Maximus – a several thousand-year-old pagan Roman title?
The Roman emperors were central figures in the ancient Roman religion. The emperor also served as high priest, since he was ...
‘Rare’ lost tomb of Roman gladiator found 2,000 years later in ‘extraordinary’ discovery: scientists
Researchers made the “extraordinary” find while excavating a 1,600-square-foot necropolis — an ancient cemetery with ornate tomb monuments — located near the location of the ancient settlement of ...
Mystery ruins turn out to be ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ ancient find in North Macedonia
Archaeologists debated the age and purpose of the ruins for years — but not anymore. Take a look at their recent finds.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Roman Epic
Hurston wasn’t drowning in the pelagic waters of tragedy; instead, she was refining the stories that ethnic groups had ...
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A Man Spent 6 Years Searching the Same Farm—and Finally Discovered a 1,900-Year-Old Roman Treasure
In metal detecting circles, a Roman coin is probably among the best things you can find—that or ancient English gold.” This Is the Largest Gold Nugget in English History Vitellius’ short ...
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The Moment Ancient Greek Masterpiece Was Unearthed at Delphi
The statue of Antinous was discovered by a team of French archaeologists who in 1891 excavated the ancient site of Delphi.