Roman
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Interesting press release from Southampton which has been making the rounds of the news outlets in various forms … here’s the first three-quarters or so: Archaeologists and engineers from the University of Southampton are collaborating with the British Museum to examine buried Roman coins using the latest X-ray imaging technology. Originally designed for the analysis…
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From the Sofia News Agency: A truck carrying concrete for a construction site near Bulgaria’s Debelt has caused the precious discovery of two tombs dating from Roman times. The news was announced Saturday by the Director of the National History Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BAS, Lyudmil Vagalinski. The truck was on a…
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Hopefully we’ll get some more details on this (I’ll look for some when I get a chance) … from the Australian branch of MSN: Glass jewellery believed to have been made by Roman craftsmen has been found in an ancient tomb in Japan, researchers said Friday, in a sign the empire’s influence may have reached…
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A lengthy article in Smithsonian Magazine about the rise of the chicken to its current place of culinary dominance has scattered Classical allusions (most of which are familiar) of interest: The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the…
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A tantalizing incipit from a piece in the Times of India: A team of archeologists have excavated Roman silver coins at Anuvanahalli in Tarikere taluk in Chikmagalur. It is now believed that the Romans might have tried to trade in medicinal plants which were found abundantly in the region given that the site looks like…
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