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One Of The Last Roman Amphitheaters Ever Built Was Just Uncovered In Switzerland
Archaeologists in Switzerland just unearthed a Roman amphitheater dating to the fourth century A.D. — making it the youngest ...
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Archaeologists Discover 141 Ancient Gold Coins Depicting Nine Roman Emperors in Luxembourg
Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...
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Battle of Raphia: How Did It Reshape Ancient Syria?
BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of ...
Archaeologists Are Stumped After Finding a Peculiar Liquid Burial in an Ancient Roman Cemetery
Just why the Romans did this, though, remains a mystery. The experts that made the discovery found that the natural ...
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Ammianus Marcellinus: The Military Historian
Ammianus Marcellinus was a Roman soldier and historian of Greek origin. He is best known for his work Res Gestae, which chronicles the history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Nerva (96 AD) to ...
Archaeologists Uncovered An Ancient ‘Boundary Stone.’ Its Inscription Could Alter Roman History.
Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...