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Tag: Roman Civilization

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How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.

April 14, 2025April 14, 2025Franz LidzComments Off on How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, fiscal fraud and the false sale of slaves.

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Roman Empire Skeletons Found Under Vienna Soccer Field

April 4, 2025April 5, 2025Eve SampsonComments Off on Roman Empire Skeletons Found Under Vienna Soccer Field

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago.

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Archaeologists Unearth Oldest Jewish Ritual Bath Found in Europe

March 11, 2025March 12, 2025ELISABETTA POVOLEDOComments Off on Archaeologists Unearth Oldest Jewish Ritual Bath Found in Europe

Discovered outside Rome, the bath, which is thought to be a mikvah, could be more than 1,600 years old.

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At Trevi Fountain in Rome, Tourists’ Coins Go to Good Cause

January 1, 2025ELISABETTA POVOLEDOComments Off on At Trevi Fountain in Rome, Tourists’ Coins Go to Good Cause

Who gets to spend the millions of euros in change tossed into the Roman landmark?

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Athens Revives Hadrian’s Aqueduct to Help With Water Crunch

December 7, 2024December 7, 2024NIKI KITSANTONISComments Off on Athens Revives Hadrian’s Aqueduct to Help With Water Crunch

Hadrian’s Aqueduct supplied water to Greece’s capital for centuries but was then largely abandoned. It’s being revived to ease water scarcity amid global warming.

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A Tiny Gladiator Tells of the Reach of Roman Empire Celebrity

November 15, 2024November 15, 2024MEGAN SPECIAComments Off on A Tiny Gladiator Tells of the Reach of Roman Empire Celebrity

A 2,000-year-old copper knife handle depicting a gladiator will go on display at Hadrian’s Wall, in the north of England, next year.

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Reinventing Concrete, the Ancient Roman Way

October 19, 2024October 21, 2024Amos ZeebergComments Off on Reinventing Concrete, the Ancient Roman Way

By learning the secrets of 2,000-year-old cement, researchers are trying to devise greener, more durable modern options.

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Archaeologists Find Marble Statue in Ancient Sewer in Bulgaria

July 9, 2024July 9, 2024Amelia NierenbergComments Off on Archaeologists Find Marble Statue in Ancient Sewer in Bulgaria

Researchers in Bulgaria think the artifact could offer a window into ancient tensions around the rise of Christianity.

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Long Before Amsterdam’s Coffee Shops, There Were Hallucinogenic Seeds

March 21, 2024RACHEL NUWERComments Off on Long Before Amsterdam’s Coffee Shops, There Were Hallucinogenic Seeds

A nearly 2,000-year-old stash pouch provides the first evidence of the intentional use of a powerful psychedelic plant in Western Europe during the Roman Era.

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Rome’s Ancient Grandeur Towers Anew With a Copy of a Colossus

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024ELISABETTA POVOLEDOComments Off on Rome’s Ancient Grandeur Towers Anew With a Copy of a Colossus

A 1:1 facsimile of the statue of Constantine shows how modern technology can help recreate the past, and offers new ideas for scholarship.

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