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How the first pandemic in history shook the Roman Empire
2+ hour, 56+ min ago (287+ words) In his book 'Pox Romana,' Colin Elliott delves into the devastating effects of the Antonine Plague, a pandemic that might have hastened the decline of one of history's greatest empires....
This 2,500-Year-Old Etruscan Well Was Opened with Bronze Statues and Closed with Two Human Bodies
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (118+ words) This may be a ritual tied to the creation of a new city....
A Medieval Skeleton Was Shattered in 167 Places. He May Be The First Documented Trebuchet Victim
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (923+ words) The victim's injuries resemble those from a high-speed car crash, only this was the Middle Ages. Something hit the young man from behind with such extraordinary force that his skull broke in 61 places. His ribs cracked in jagged zigzags. His…...
Turkey’s Megalithic Site Göbeklitepe Is Often Called The World's First Temple. Is This Actually True?
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (21+ words) Credit: Tas Tepeler. While shooting a documentary at Göbeklitepe, I encountered strikingly different historical interpretations of the site. An...
A Fisherman Thought He Found a Rock Off Sicily. It Turned Out to be a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck
1+ week, 3+ day ago (184+ words) Hundreds of ancient jars reveal a Mediterranean trade route frozen in time....
A Mysterious Room in a Roman Villa May Be Iberia’s Oldest Known Library
1+ week, 6+ day ago (434+ words) Archaeologists reidentify a room once thought to be a shrine as a rare Roman library....
Archaeologists find surprisingly well-preserved 8,600-year-old bread in Turkey
2+ week, 3+ day ago (391+ words) An unfinished Neolithic loaf may be the oldest fermented bread ever identified....
Tiny Roman Bullets Carry the Name of the General Who Defeated Catalonia’s Mountain Rebels
2+ week, 5+ day ago (604+ words) Inscribed sling bullets may pinpoint Rome’s final fight against the Ceretani. The message was small enough to fit on a lump of lead: CN D. But the message was meant to be seen, and it was clear as day: this…...
This 6,000-year-old Megalith in Spain Predates Stonehenge by Over a Thousand Years and It's Still Standing —Here’s How It Was Made
2+ week, 6+ day ago (771+ words) This ancient structure remarkable lasted through the millennia. “Megaliths represent the earliest form of monumental stone architecture,” write the authors of a 2024 study, and the Menga Dolmen is a fantastic example. This prehistoric megalithic structure near Antequera in southern Spain…...
Archaeologists Found a Roman Nail Cleaner Shaped Like a Penis Beside an English Motorway
2+ week, 6+ day ago (599+ words) A rare grooming object reveals luck, hygiene and daily life in Roman Britain. Archaeologists working near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England, have uncovered a late Roman grooming tool. The tool itself is pretty unremarkable: a nail cleaner. But the shape is…...