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Sometime between the 4th and 14th centuries, a Roman palace housed dozens of popes for hundreds of years. It existed long before the Vatican. Recently, its centuries-old walls were uncovered during ...
The size of the ingot found in Nero’s palace is very unusual. Archaeologists typically discover Egyptian blue in the form of powder or tiny fragments, whereas this specimen is a whopping 2.4 ...
And it was grand. The Domus Tiberiana was Rome’s first imperial palace, built by the emperor Tiberius who combined and incorporated the pre-existing noble mansions built on the hill.
However, when research picked back up, it turned out that the structure dated to the second century, long after the emperor’s death in 14 C.E. Cross section of the soil layer inside the kiln.
After 50 years of neglect, Rome’s “lost” imperial palace Domus Tiberiana has reopened as an open-air museum. Until recently a crumbling and off-limits ruin near the famous Colosseum, the ...
Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster ...
Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions ...
And it was grand. The Domus Tiberiana was Rome’s first imperial palace, built by the emperor Tiberius who combined and incorporated the pre-existing noble mansions built on the hill. Occupying ...
By Silvia Marchetti, CNN Rome (CNN) — After 50 years of neglect, Rome’s “lost” imperial palace Domus Tiberiana has reopened as an open-air museum. Until recently a crumbling and off-limits ...