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Jewelry in a Roman treasure hoard found in Thetford Forest, East Anglia, indicates that Thetford was Pagan until the fifth ...
A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...
Ms. Cargill-Martin is a writer and classical scholar. The ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome. Its adherents love its glories. They love its ideals of hard, unbending masculinity. And they ...
But as the empire began its long decline—Rome would fall in the fifth century ... as it existed during the Roman Empire. The map's origins were obscure: a 13th-century monk from Colmar had ...
A ccording to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 ...
“Ravenna attracted the best artists and architects from around the empire,” noted Claudia Frassineti ... many of its majestic Roman-era structures have simply vanished and been replaced ...
a climatic episode that occurred in the 6th century and may have played a key role in the collapse of the Roman Empire. The international team of geoscientists focused their work on a unique finding: ...
The coins were excavated near the foot of a burgus, or late Roman fortified tower, used for military observation. These watchtowers were commonly built along the edge of the Roman Empire in the ...
The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.
Trier, known as Germany’s Roman capital, rose to prominence as a major metropolis in the Roman Empire north of the Alps between the 1st and 5th centuries ... the early 20th century, but they ...
A symbol of the fight for public access to the hills, the country’s first long-distance footpath paved the way for many more ...