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The Numbers Behind Ancient Rome: Stats that Define *the* Supercity of the Ancient World
According to Roman mythology, the city of Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BCE, by Romulus, a half-god who vanquished his twin brother Remus to become the city’s first king. What began as a small ...
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Archaeologists in Rome have just discovered an exceptional (and priceless) treasure in an ancient palace
An Egyptian blue pigment has just been unearthed beneath the Domus Aurea. A priceless discovery that tells us more about the arts in ancient Rome.
Archaeology breakthrough as 'Egyptian blue' ingot found in historic site
Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was a Roman emperor, ...
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Rome's Ancient Catacombs
"The Jewish community in Rome built them as cemeteries ... As for now, we have only found inscriptions and human remains." ...
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Bright blue chunk found in Rome turns out to be rare 2,000-year-old material. See it
Two tanks found at the ancient pigment workshop ... linked it to the construction of the Domus Aurea, a palace built in Rome about 2,000 years ago under the rule of Emperor Nero.
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Hoard of over 1,000 coins from Ancient Rome found with metal detector
According to a release from Museums Worcestershire, a trove of 1,368 silver and gold coins from the Iron Age and Ancient Rome were found by an anonymous metal detectorist searching an unnamed area ...