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Ongoing digs at a Roman villa in the town of Villajoyosa in Spain, have revealed more than 4,000 fragments of wall paintings.
In one of Europe’s oldest cities, a marvel of modern engineering now rumbles beneath ancient streets.
A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...
The spot sits along the old Roman road leading out of York and got its ... they were much more familiar with death than most modern North Americans, but that doesn’t mean that they tried to ...
Modern forensic techniques ... they were instead laid to rest at the edges of roads leading out of urban areas, which is evident in Driffield Terrace. Roman burials in the area date back to ...
As of now, the base of the modern road rests directly on the Roman structure. Experts also highlight the vibrant history of Old Kent Road. Pilgrims of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales walked ...
Modern firepower meets ancient tactics in this epic thought experiment: could a single Marine platoon overcome the might of a Roman legion ... down speeding with wavy road lines All but one ...
Adrian IV was the first, and so far, only English Pope.
PALMYRA, Syria — This ancient city, once one of the most important stops on the Silk Road, bears the scars of ... of years before it became a thriving Roman city on the crossroads between ...
This was no backwater — Alabum guarded the crucial Roman roads that connected Carmarthen ... However, Llandovery’s most striking monument is a modern one: a dramatic steel statue of Llywelyn ...
Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman ... a road from the mountains above the Mediterranean near modern ...