Roman Archeology News

Ancient Rome comes to virtual life on 22-foot screen at UCLA
Computer-savvy scholars at the University of California, Los Angeles have created a virtual reality version of the Roman Forum that allows viewers to wander the ancient complex.
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Valentines from Ancient Rome: Sex, Death and Lust
As Valentine's Day approaches and card stores fill with sentimental valentines, Hamilton College Classics Professor Barbara Gold can't help but notice the difference between modern and ancient expressions of love.
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Street in Germany leads to road in Rome
A well-preserved segment of a Roman road has been unearthed just one metre below a city street in Cologne, archeologists announced on Tuesday.
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DNA and the fall of Rome
Michael McCormick is trying to figure out how to spend $1.5 million.
The money comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has chosen McCormick to receive one of its Distinguished Achievement Awards.
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Roman palace redraws London map
A "significant" Roman settlement has been uncovered outside the ancient walls of London which archaeologists say could change the story of the city.
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Pompeii frescoes rise from motorway
A SERIES of Pompeii frescoes that came to light during the building of a motorway have gone on display in Rome after two years of restoration.
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Roman fort reconstructed
In the year 15 B.C., the Romans – in their relentless bid to expand the borders of their empire - discovered an elevated area of land to the east of what is now the Dutch town of Nijmegen.
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Roman site points to a Greater Londinium
The map of Roman London will have to be redrawn after the discovery of a settlement including a palace or military headquarters about a mile outside the city walls.
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Cent millions d'euros pour restaurer le patrimoine antique de PACA
L'Etat et la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ont lancé, à l'été 1999, un "ambitieux plan de conservation et de mise en valeur des monuments antiques" estimé à plus de 100 millions d'euros.
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Pottery at pub left by Romans
Ancient fragments of pottery have been uncovered in an East Barnet pub, revealing the area's previously unknown Roman heritage.
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Archaeologists unearth Roman ruins in Jordan
Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered a large Roman amphitheatre which they say is one of their most important finds for years.
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Ruins of ancient Roman tower found
Archaeology is often a thankless task in the Netherlands, where the rain and a scarcity of stone for building mean most traces of ancient life have washed away.
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Ancient Roman city discovered in Beit Ras
The Department of Antiquities (DoA) on Sunday reported the discovery of an entire ancient Roman city in Beit Ras in the northern Irbid Governorate.
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Jordan archaeologists unearth Roman ruins
Archaelogists in Jordan have discovered a large Roman amphitheatre which they say is one of their most important finds for years.
jan03w3

Awards Allow Researcher to Read Between the Ancient Lines
As you read this, the spaces between the words and punctuation guide you in the process. Chances are you're reading it silently, too. That's not the way the ancient Greeks and Romans usually read.
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Real life Roman odours cause sickness in museum
A museum is toning down its realistic smells of Roman life after youngsters on school trips were sick when they smelt an imperial soldier's flatulence.
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Lunch for the lions
A few miles out of Seville are the ruins of Italica. Publius Cornelius Scipio, the greatest Roman general before Julius Caesar, built it as a rest camp for his troops. It grew into a town of 200,000 people and had its own 30,000-seat coliseum so the centurions could go there on Sundays and see some of the population eaten by lions.
jan03w3

Italian Archaeological Treasures for Sale
An entire archaeological city may go up for sale in Italy, according to confidential government documents made public by a leading environmental group.
jan03w2

In this vino, veritas back to Roman era
Back to Start of Article Ugernum, Trans-Alpine Gaul The business of the Roman Empire continues to ferment here under new management.
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Dutch archeologists excited over discovery of ruined Roman watchtowers along the old Rhine
Archaeology is often a thankless task in the Netherlands, where the rain and a scarcity of stone for building mean most traces of ancient life have washed away.
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Atticus and Rome’s priorities
Herodes’s biggest project also proved to be his most controversial: a thorough restoration, expansion, and adornment of Lycourgos’s fourth-century-BC stadium in Athens.
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Roman Britons after 410
The 'story' of Roman Britain, as told to generations of schoolchildren, is a very simple one - AD 43, the Roman legions march in; AD 410, they march out again. Barbarity beforehand, barbarity afterwards, civilisation in between.
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The Treasures of Zeugma Part II
Gaziantep Museum is a small, humble building on a tree-lined street. Around its perimeter, a hundred or more columns like those I saw at Zeugma sit like old men having say, reminiscing about the past.
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Ancient Roman tower found
Dutch archaeologists have discovered the foundations of a wooden watchtower, built by Roman soldiers on the banks of the Rhine almost 2000 years ago.
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