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Edward N. Hines, the cyclist who invented paved roads with painted lines

There is a very interesting fact about roads that will surprise more than one person. Road networks have existed since ...
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The Council of the Sixteen Women of Elis, organizers of the Heraean Games and political mediators and peacemakers

Pausanias traveled through Greece around the year 173 CE and left a unique testimony: every four years, sixteen women from ...
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Lusitania Was Not Conquered, It Was Negotiated: A Study Reveals the Complex Interaction Between Romans and Indigenous Peoples in the Tagus Valley

A recent academic study, published in the journal Hispania Antigua by researcher Eduardo Sánchez Moreno of the Autonomous ...
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Researchers decipher texts on Roman wooden tablets from Tongeren, Belgium, which were thrown into a well so that their information would become illegible forever

Methodical patience and a trained eye for the imperceptible constitute the epigrapher’s primary tools. One year after his ...
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Archaeologists Confirm Remains Found in Fano Belong to Vitruvius’ Legendary Basilica, Built in 19 BC

The official announcement, made this morning at the Mediateca Montanari, leaves no room for doubt: the architectural remains ...
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Nearly eighty ancient inscriptions with declarations of love, insults, and slogans left by the public in the corridors of the theaters discovered in Pompeii

On a bare wall, seemingly exhausted, excavated two hundred thirty years ago in the heart of the theater district—where ...
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Neolithic structure discovered in Tuscany documenting the use of thermal waters in prehistory

Beneath the damp soil and the weight of centuries, in the area of the Terme di Sorano, in the Tuscan Maremma, time has preserved a secret of unsuspected antiquity. Archaeologists working on an ...