Roman Archeology News

The Malta Independent Daily Website
An Italian navy minesweeper is helping Maltese archaeologists to carry out preliminary studies to identify and protect archaeological and historical sites at sea. The visit of the minesweeper, Sapri, is being made in close collaboration with the Museums Department.
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Blather Misc. Articles: Hibernia Romana: What did the Romans ever do for us?: Exploring Ireland's forbidden archaeology
On a pleasant Sunday morning early in 1996, I was traveling to work, when my jaw hit the rather grubby floor of the bus on which I was sitting. The reason for my cartoon like gob-flapping was the banner headline from The Sunday Times.
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Yahoo! News - Germans arrested for shipwreck theft
Four Germans have been arrested for stealing ancient amphorae from a third century BC shipwreck off the coast of the southern Italian island of Sicily, according to Italian police.
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Archaeology Magazine
Carvings on an ancient ossuary in the Cincinnati Art Museum depict a pyramid-topped tomb in Jerusalem according to University of Cincinnati professor Steven Fine, who was the first to recognize the significance of the engravings. The discovery adds to the small number images that show what Jerusalem looked like in the first century.
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BBC NEWS | England | Moor dig finds Roman iron factory
A huge Roman iron factory has been unearthed at a remote spot on the southern edge of Exmoor.
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US Weather in Latin....
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Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Latin Gains Popularity After Slide
The Roman poet Ovid may have put it best when he said ``Rident stolidi verba Latina'' - Fools laugh at the Latin language.
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HoustonChronicle.com - Review: IBP stages a bleak 'Phaedra'
However brutal the action or tragic the outcome, the ancient myths of Greece and Rome emanate grandeur, heroism and nobility. As deconstructed and demythologized by Sarah Kane in Phaedra's Love, the tale of Phaedra and her hopeless love for her stepson Hippolytus oozes squalor, viciousness and despair.
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Casket resurrects new vision of ancient Jerusalem
Despite massive excavations in recent years, few images exist to tell us what Jerusalem looked like in the first century – a period important to Christians as their founding as well as to Jews because of the flourishing and ultimate destruction of the Temple. That's why University of Cincinnati professor Steven Fine was thrilled – and surprised – to find an overlooked view of this revered city and era in an ancient artifact displayed at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
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EL MOSTRADOR.CL : tecnologia
La tumba de un caballero del siglo IV a.C., que contiene unos frescos decorativos en perfecto estado de conservación, fue descubierta en el Valle del Sarno (sur de Italia) y será trasladará íntegramente al museo del mismo nombre para su conservación y exhibición al público.
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KPnews.com -- News about Ukraine
Propping herself up on a bent elbow, and with a wide‑brim hat protecting her face against the sun, Valentyna Krapivina begins sorting through age‑old bits of pottery.
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Yahoo! News - Spoken Latin gaining popularity after centuries of decline
The Roman poet Ovid may have put it best when he said "Rident stolidi verba Latina" — Fools laugh at the Latin language.
Indeed, after centuries of decline and declarations of being dead, Latin as a living, spoken language is making a comeback of sorts.
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Was Hannibal Black?
Black schoolchildren have long admired Hannibal as a racial role model. The African general, who marched on Italy in 218 B.C., hailed from Carthage, in what is now Tunisia. But was Hannibal actually black?
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Israel News : Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
A Roman-era limestone container found near the Galilee city of Zippori, provides the first evidence that a significant Second Temple ritual lasted well beyond the holy site's destruction.
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British Archaeology magazine, August 2002
A large 4th century Roman mosaic has been found only about 8 inches (10 cm) below the surface of a potato field at Dinnington, near Ilminster in Somerset. The mosaic has been deeply scarred by a modern plough.
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DEPECHE AFP
L'un des plus importants chantiers de fouilles antiques actuellement menés en France, à La Pacaudière (Loire), organise en fin de semaine des journées portes ouvertes dans la cadre des Journées du patrimoine.
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DEPECHE AFP
L'archéologie préventive, cette nouvelle donnée des grands aménagements, a son plus grand chantier sur un futur site industriel à Saint-Laurent Blangy, près d'Arras avec des témoignages allant de la guerre des Gaules à la bataille d'Arras, présentés lundi à la presse.
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ekathimerini.com | Archaeologists gather to discuss emperor’s triumphant monument
The first international symposium at the ancient Roman city of Nicopolis, which took place 18 years ago, was significant for its time, but was confined to bibliographical data. Since then, something has happened to jolt the chronic indifference of the Culture Ministry.
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Al-Ahram Weekly | Heritage | Guardians of the southern gate
Elephantine Island lies opposite the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan and offers a backdrop for all those photographs of white-sailed fellucas under an ultramarine sky.
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Yahoo! News - Syrian Desert Ruins Are Window on Ancient World
Turn off a dusty street in the center of Damascus, walk past students and old men idling in the gardens of the national museum, and you reach a 2,000-year-old snapshot of life at the edges of the world's ancient empires.
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Description of Selected News
Archeologists in southwest Germany have uncovered a 1,800-year-old temple built to the Persian god Mithras while they were working on a Roman dig, authorities in the town of Gueglingen said Friday.
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No 27 August 2002 - 28th August
Students and staff from the University of Exeter’s Archaeology Department, with the help of local volunteers, have been excavating a massive Roman iron production site near Brayford on the southern edge of Exmoor.
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Yahoo! News - Skilled Roman workers lived well
Roman emperors knew how to treat their skilled workers, paying them high wages and providing them with a diet that would not go amiss in a modern top class restaurant.
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Yahoo! News - Egyptian quarry workers dined luxuriously in Roman Empire, researcher says
Egyptian quarry workers in the Roman Empire dined luxuriously rather than surviving on the meager diet they were thought to endure, a researcher said Monday.
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Archaeology Magazine
Water was just as essential to the ancient Pompeians as it is to us. They used it differently of course, but they still needed it. Its supply became increasingly critical as the city's population increased and became ever more densely packed within the walls.
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Archaeology Magazine
Pompeii had a full range of commerce and industry. Sizeable ovens and two-meter-high stone mills leave tangible reminders of once thriving bakeries. Large tanks indicate large-scale fulling, dying, and laundering. Fullers, dyers, bakers, metalworkers, tanners, and jewelers.
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Archaeology Magazine
The bustling streets of Pompeii today, teeming with tour groups, are not unlike the streets of the ancient city. Deep cuts in Via Consolare's paving stones mark where the metal-rimmed wooden wheels of carts and carriages once transported people and their wares. Overflow from public and private fountains may have flooded the road.
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Archaeology Magazine
The House of the Surgeon has been traditionally recognized as the oldest house in Pompeii, a distinction which relies upon the large stone masonry of the house. In general, Pompeii's buildings are made with rubble walls, a technique today called opus incertum. The House of the Surgeon's massive blocks, which withstood the A.D. 79 eruption and several earthquakes (modern as well as ancient), contrast sharply with the rest of the buildings throughout the city, giving the house unparalleled presence and beauty.
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WorldNews: Researchers Find Church in Jordan
Parts of a church dating to the Byzantine era have been uncovered in southern Jordan, an archaeologist supervising the excavations said Thursday. ``A big mosaic floor, an altar and pillars ... built between 400 and 600 A.D. have recently been unearthed,'' archaeologist Hamad Qatameen told The Associated Press.
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Yahoo! News - Rome to issue licenses to Colosseum's gladiators
The small legion of breastplate-wearing, helmet-sporting, sword-swishing actors who pose as gladiators at Rome's Colosseum for tourists will now have to be licensed, city officials said Monday.
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ekathimerini.com | The art of Byzantine ceramics
Archaeology has shown that common, everyday artifacts can offer valuable and often unique clues to past civilizations. If carefully examined in comparative research, a vessel’s shape and decorative pattern can be combined with study of technique and material to lead to information as diverse and intricate as a culture’s customs, eating habits, aesthetic taste, trade and economy.
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BBC - Devon - News - archaeologists have uncovered a huge Roman iron works near Brayford in north Devon
An archaeological dig could reveal how the Romans used north Devon iron to maintain their world-wide empire 2,000 years ago.
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Independent Independent
In AD79, little Herculaneum was a pretty coastal resort, overlooking the Gulf of Naples. Unlike the nearby commercial centre of Pompeii – an urban spread covering an area some three times larger – it was a friendly, laid-back kind of place.
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