A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of ...

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The findings, which were published December 9 in the journal Nature Communications, are the clearest evidence of mixing ...

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The ruins of Augusta Raurica near Basel, Switzerland are home to the best-preserved Roman theater north of the Alps.

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We’re as much the products of the books we read as we are of the times we live in. The 20 books in the list below certainly ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, biblical scholars interested in parallels between ancient religious belief systems argued ...