TAG: ancient Rome
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Digs & Discoveries March/April 2021
More Vesuvius Victims
Courtesy Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei -
Digs & Discoveries November/December 2015
How Much Water Reached Rome?
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Digs & Discoveries May/June 2012
The Persistence of Brucellosis
The skeletal remains of two adolescent males found at Butrint, a Roman colony in Albania, indicate that both suffered from fatal cases of brucellosis. The chronic respiratory disease, which is typically contracted from contaminated meat or dairy products, today affects roughly 500,000 people per year worldwide.
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Digs & Discoveries March/April 2012
Roman Bath Tiles
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Features January/February 2012
Gladiator Gym Goes Virtual - Carnuntum, Austria
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology has allowed an international team of researchers from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI-ArchPro) to both identify a ludus (gladiator school) at the Roman city of Carnuntum in Austria and bring it before the public in an unprecedented way.
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Features July 1, 2011
Assisi's Roman Villa
A surprise discovery under a medieval Italian town square.
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Digs & Discoveries January 1, 2011
Heads Won, Tales Lost
Last May, a 24-year-old man in northern England with a handheld metal detector found the remains of a stunning bronze-and-tin Roman helmet dating to the first or second century A.D. Within days, he had brought 40-some pieces of the artifact—called the "Crosby Garrett helmet" after the village near where it was found—to Christie's auction house in London.
