Roman Archeology News

Bulgarian Archeologists a Step Away from Grand Discovery
Bulgarian archeologists are on their way to discover the ancient Dionysus temple in the Rhodopi Mountain famous for its splendor in antique times and in modernity for the many failed attempts to determine its exact location.
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Japan team finds 2 chained human remains in Pompei ruins
A team of Japanese archaeologists on Tuesday found the remains of two chained human bodies, apparently slaves, at the Pompei ruins in southern Italy.
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Bones discovery lifts lid on Roman secrets
Today it is a busy road - but 1,700 years ago it was a place where grieving Romans buried their loved ones.
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loyd Webber to sell Aeneid manuscript
The composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is selling one of the greatest treasures of Victorian England: the illuminated manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid that drove its designer, William Morris, to distraction.
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Early organs were not instruments proclaiming God's glory
Where would churches be without their organ music? From even the humblest little congregation to the greatest cathedral, one can almost always find a church organ and someone to play the charming thing.
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It isn't Latin that is a dead language, it's English
Last night I dreamt of the third person singular pluperfect subjunctive. How beautiful that symbol of order and precision appeared, crafted in white chalk.
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Bar Kochba-era artifacts discovered in cave near Dead Sea
Israeli archeologists this week announced their discovery of rare artifacts from the Bar Kochba period in a remote desert cave near the Dead Sea.
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Second-century artifacts found [November 19, 2002]
A cave survey in Israel's Judean Desert has found papyrus scrolls, coins and arrow heads from the time of the Jewish rebellion against the Romans in the second century, archaeologists said.
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Archeologists find artifacts from Bar Kochba revolt
A cave survey in Israel's Judean Desert has uncovered papyrus scrolls, coins and arrow heads from the period of the Jewish rebellion against the Romans in the second century, archeologists said Tuesday.
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Peak's Roman past revealed
A new study has shown the extent of Roman occupation in part of Derbyshire.
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Coins found at Ein Gedi cave refer to Simon Bar-Kochba
Rare archaeological discoveries were unearthed in Ein Gedi nature reserve last week, in a small cave capable of holding eight men at most.
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A Third of Italy's World Heritage at Risk
A third of Italy's most valued cultural sites -- including Venice and Pompeii -- are in a state of emergency, an environmental group said Wednesday.
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Temple dedicated to Hadrian's male lover is unearthed
A lost temple which the Roman emperor Hadrian had built in front of his villa in memory of his drowned male lover Antinous has unexpectedly come to light near Rome.
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Shippensburg, Perry County, Pennsylvania, PA
They say that Latin is a dead language...
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Ballard Charts Course In Search Of Ancient Shipwrecks
Undersea explorer Robert Ballard's next adventure will take him to the coast of Egypt in search of 2,000-year-old shipwrecks.
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Quake-proof cement mixed '1 300 years ago'
The Sixth Century builders of Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine cathedral still standing in Istanbul, discovered cement with earthquake-resistant properties 1 300 years before anyone else, a research team revealed on Wednesday.
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Roman Villa planned for £12m tourist project
A £12 million pound attraction set to be built in Mid Wales will include the first complete building of a Roman villa in Britain, it was claimed today.
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Times Online
A spectacular find of early Roman imperial sculpture in western Greece has cast new light on how the Emperor Augustus commemorated his victory over Antony and Cleopatra at Actium in 31 BC.
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Scholars ponder mysteries of site of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Since the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the caves of Qumran, archaeologists from around the world have unearthed clues about the people who lived in the ancient settlement.
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Deux parchemins du IIème siècle découverts près de la mer Morte
Des archéologues israéliens ont annoncé mardi la découverte de deux parchemins datant de l'an 135 après J.C. dans une grotte du désert de Judée, près de la mer Morte.
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Activision Value's ``The Gladiators of Rome'' for the PC Enters the Arena
The spectacle and valor of the Roman arenas will be recreated on the PC with the release of "The Gladiators of Rome" from Activision Value, a division of Activision Publishing, Inc.
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Tara Motilor - fara cianuri Petition
A petition to protect the site of Rosia, mentionned last week.
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Amphitheatre excavation plans go before city leaders
CHESTER'S £7m court building, little more than a year old, has been earmarked for demolition as part of a plan to transform the city's Roman amphitheatre into a world-beating tourist attraction.
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Scientists Find Earliest Roman London Plaque
Archaeologists excavating an ancient site in London said on Friday they had unearthed the oldest known plaque inscribed with the city's Roman name.
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Position paper on displacement of cultural relics
In order to be able to begin with large-scale open pit mining and the establishment of the ore dressing plant, the waste-tip, the tailings ponds etc., a considerable part of the town of Rosia Montana has to be resettled.
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Israel Masada Now U.N. Heritage Site
Hundreds of Israelis climbed this ancient hilltop fortress Thursday, where Jewish rebels chose suicide over capture by Roman troops, to celebrate its addition to a U.N. list of cultural treasures.
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Cypriot Land Mines
We couldn't get to the fifth-century B.C. tomb at Pyla, said to be one of the finest of the period, because minefields were being cleared that day and the road was closed.
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Stoned in the Eastern Desert
All you need is a case of water and a four-wheel drive and you can go anywhere. You can also get lost -- but until you run out of water and petrol you don't need to panic.
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Hadrian's temple to favourite male lover
Archeologists excavating Hadrian’s villa near Rome have uncovered a hitherto-unknown Egyptian temple built by the Emperor to commemorate the untimely death of his youthful male lover, Antinous.
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Roads from Rome
Many people are pleased and proud to know that they live near a Roman road. There is considerable enjoyment to be had from walking along preserved lengths of such roads, while names such as Watling Street and Fosse Way have become integral parts of our heritage.
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Detector man finds buried treasure
London's Inside Out team meets an amateur archaeologist who may have hit the jackpot by using his metal detector in a field just outside London.
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Case for Oldest Purpose-Built Christian Church Bolstered
Over the last eight years, Dr. S. Thomas Parker, professor of history at North Carolina State University, and teams of graduate and undergraduate students and Jordanians have worked to uncover the secrets behind a mud-brick building discovered beneath the swirling sands of Aqaba, Jordan.
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Archaelogists unearth historic floor
A CHALK floor which once supported a Roman farm house has been unearthed by archaeologists who say the discovery makes an important historic site even more valuable.
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Israel Masada Now U.N. Heritage Site
Hundreds of Israelis climbed this ancient hilltop fortress Thursday, where Jewish rebels chose suicide over capture by Roman troops, to celebrate its addition to a U.N. list of cultural treasures.
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New version of old Pompeian wine in production in Italy
Preparations are underway in Pompeii to produce a wine using the same techniques and grapes that were in use more than 2,000 years ago, Italian media reported.
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Experts lose marbles in Acropolis Museum row
Crews working on Athens' new Acropolis Museum beneath the Parthenon have hit on a dilemma that archaeologists have feared for decades and opponents hope will doom the entire project.
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How we really loved the Romans
The enduring myth that the Romans left the 'barbarians' of Scotland untouched during their conquest of the rest of the British Isles has been shattered by a new archaeological find. Not only did they settle in Scotland for around 15 years in the first century AD ...
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