Ancient Rome Archive
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the past, many unusual professions were well-paid, but some of these jobs were not respectable. In ancient Rome, some people worked as delatores.
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When analyzing 2,500-year-old medical texts, scientists were surprised to discover dementia was hardly mentioned at all. Everything indicates memory loss was more or
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working within the Colosseum Archaeological Park’s research project, have unearthed some rooms of a luxurious domus dated to the late Republican age. Image
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the Late Viking Age, a grave was built that looks very similar to one of the most spectacular graves of the Roman
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Recently, archaeologists in Pompeii discovered yet another 2,000-year-old well-preserved frescoed fast food counter used by the Romans. In our earlier article on AncientPages we described
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The head of a statue dated to the 3rd century AD and believed to depict Roman Emperor Aurelian (250 – 275 AD) have been discovered at the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - According to historians, political debates in ancient Rome were conducted with great harshness and personal attacks, which were comparable to examples of hate speech on the internet.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists are investigating how and why so many people in ancient Rome died of lead poisoning. Some have suggested lead poisoning led to the fall of the
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