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This paper presents an overview on the sustainability of ancient water supply systems in Jerusalem from the Chalcolithic period (4500–3200 B.C.) until the present time. More.

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Some Roman settlers and important Britons built villas - Mediterranean-style country houses. Two villas have been excavated by archaeologists in Staffordshire - Hales and Engleton. Through excavation we know what these houses looked like and how people lived. More.

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Prof. Ben Witherington recently visited a number of archaeological sites in Turkey.  He offers several posts complete with magnificent photos and commentary on the agora at Izmir (Biblical Smyrna), the archaeological museum at Izmir, the funerary monuments and statues in Hierapolis,  and the Papias Stele.   More.

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During the excavations of the Roman period rural settlements and cemetery in Tiel-Passewaaij (The Netherlands), a large pair of pincers was found. Following an article from 1973, the object was published as an emasculator at first. More.

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Brisbane may be 2000 years and half-a-world away from Pompeii, but it hasn't stopped a UQ archaeologist from digging up some hidden treasures. More.

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The most recent, comprehensive and widely distributed Lower Rhine coin group is that of bronze ‘AVAVCIA’ coins, the obverse of which shows a swastika and the reverse a horse (Fig. 11). Because the coins occur on such a vast scale in the earliest Roman camps and civil centres. More.

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In the small town of Casola di Napoli, about three miles south of the archaeological site of Pompeii, sheer chance has brought to light an archaeological discovery – as well as some unanswered questions. More.

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We jumped at the chance to go below the well manicured grounds of Rome's Villa Torlonia to discover Rome's Jewish catacombs when Lisa of Secret Garden Tours proposed it. More.

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Dans le cadre du projet de réaménagement de l'esplanade de la cathédrale de la Major, une fouille archéologique est réalisée par l'Inrap. Plus.

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The Byrsa quarter of Carthage, recently discovered by French archaeologists, dates from the time of Hannibal and gives an idea of urban life in the early second century BC. When the Romans returned to rebuild Carthage they covered over the ruins of the 146 BC construction on Byrsa Hill with thick layers of rubble and earth thus preserving the whole site. More.

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Pictures of artefacts found in various digs around the UK. More.

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The plan is to wrap up a draft of the Thisvi paper by the end of today, and it looks vaguely possible.  This weekend, I ran a bunch of queries on the finds data to attempt to determine the relationship between the ancient and post-ancient material on the site. More.

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A collection of locations significant in the history of ancient Rome. More.

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n A.D. 395, Roman Emperor Theodosius I split his realm between his two sons, giving the Western empire—with Rome at its heart—to Honorius, and the eastern half—Byzantium—to his brother, Arkadios. More.

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Venus was one of most popular Roman goddesses and the myths about her are similar to those of the ancient Greek goddess, Aphrodite. More.

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An ancient Roman ruin has been discovered by builders working on the GBP 25.6 million redevelopment of the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, UK. More.

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Every builder in the land has tales of the plans that have had to be changed to meet the stipulations of council officials. But surely no one has done more to meet those demands than developer and interior designer Jon Edgson. More.

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Jean Michel Roddaz, professeur à l'université de Bordeaux et spécialiste des sociétés de l'empire romain occidental, et Jocelyne Nelis-Clément, chercheur CNRS, dont on a déjà pu apprécier les travaux sur le cirque, nous proposent ici l'édition des actes d'un colloque international tenu à Bordeaux du 19 au 21 octobre 2006. Plus.

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Also known as Jove and Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter was the primary god of the Romans. One of the most ancient Italic gods, he governed portents and the sky. More.

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The cornucopia, literally 'horn of plenty,' adorns the Thanksgiving table thanks to Greek mythology. The horn may originally have belonged to a goat, but Zeus used to drink from it as a baby. More.

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Domitian had spent his life in the background, but in 81 AD he found himself Emperor and soon demonstrated that he had very strong ideas about how to wield power. More.

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Suite à mes deux précédents articles dans lesquels je conteste vos affirmations, conforté que je suis par une majorité d’opinions favorables de commentateurs sur le site d’Agoravox, je vous demande de bien vouloir revoir vos articles sur Bibracte et Gergovie. More.

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taggering in the planning; masterful in its execution; awe-inspiring in its scale. There can only be one historic monument in Britain that truly lives up to all this (dare we say) hype. And that’s Hadrian's Wall, our Roman Frontier. More.

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In 1947, young Bedouin shepherds, searching for a stray goat in the Judean Desert, entered a long-untouched cave and found jars filled with ancient scrolls. More.

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Had Georges Eugène Haussmann not undertaken to tear up chunks of old Paris, much of the city's very early history would have remained hermetically sealed beneath its medieval layer, forever lost. More.

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