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Marinus of Tyre, the First Geographer to Include China in Roman Maps and Invent the Term “Antarctic”
At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...
Greek Reporter2d
What Was Ancient Egypt Like Under Roman Rule?
What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?
Archaeologists Discovered the Pieces of a Fifth-Century Board Game. They Tell a Big Story.
The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with bone pieces by Roman soldiers in the fifth century. Celikbas said both are ...
New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome
New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome - Visitors can walk over the map in the museum in ...
Pompeii's dark omen: Ancient footprints show people had to escape an eruption of Mount Vesuvius 1,800 years BEFORE the one that buried the famous Roman city
Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even ...
How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...
Ancient papyrus is deciphered after 1,900 YEARS: Mysterious scroll is the 'best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus'
The scroll, found in the Judean desert, has been painstakingly translated from Nabataean, an ancient Arabic language.
Roman Scroll Discovery Reveals Brazen 1,890-Year-Old Crime
"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.
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Hundreds of gold and silver coins buried 2,000 years ago unearthed by metal detectorists in the Netherlands
Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this week. The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands ...
The ancient discovery that put a Silk Road city back on the map
After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...
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Description of Alexandria’s Lighthouse Found in Ancient Chinese Writings
Contact between the Mediterranean and China was practically non-existent in the ancient and medieval ... maritime trade in Quanzhou, Fujian Province. As a trade supervisor, he spoke frequently with ...