Roman empire Archive
DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ruled by many Emperors, the mighty and vast Roman Empire covered territories that included Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Established in 27
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare roofed theater, markets, warehouses, a river port and other startling discoveries made by a Cambridge-led team of archaeologists challenge major assumptions
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Despite the Roman Empire’s extensive military and cultural influence on the nearby Balkan peninsula, a DNA analysis of individuals who lived in the region
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News
AncientPages.com - How often do you think about the Roman empire? This question, posed to men by their partners on social media app TikTok, has led to a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Large jars (in Greek, called 'pithoi') were vast storage containers, widely used among the civilizations that inhabited the regions of the Mediterranean Sea in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Edinburgh have discovered more than 100 Iron Age settlements in south-west Scotland that date from the time of Roman occupation. The
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Civilizations
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Avars' place in history has been marked and yet, it has long remained so enigmatic. These fierce nomadic warriors appeared riding from
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists led by the UAB complete the first topography of the interior of the only existing Roman emerald mines, located in Egypt. Their work
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We waste a lot more valuable marble than builders who worked with marble statues, columns, or slabs under Roman Empire! Ancient Roman imperial
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When Cato was a child, one could see he would be different one day. He was extremely stubborn and could not tolerate obvious
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The year was 395, and Alaric had just become the King of the Visigoths. A few days later, he had a strange dream
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Climate change is a natural process and it affects all living beings, but how much must temperatures change for a powerful ancient civilization
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many have claimed the Justinianic Plague (c. 541-750 CE) killed half of the population of the Roman Empire. Now, historical research and mathematical
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Following the assassination of Domitian of the Flavian Dynasty (81–96) on September 18, 96, a new Emperor appeared on the same day. Domitian
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - Many brilliant leaders serve their countries well but live their lives and careers in obscurity. Thus, they achieve little. They may be in
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Civilizations
David Tee - AncientPages.com - The area deemed today as Iran has had a long history. The Medes first ruled the nation in the 9th century BC. However, the
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - Pompey was born in 106 BC, but his mother is not named in historical records. His father, Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, is well known
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among all the achievements of ancient engineering, Roman aqueducts belong to the most exceptional ones. Engineers in the ancient Roman Empire knew that
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Theologians, historians, scientists and ordinary people have always speculated about who the Anti-Christ is or will be. Now, an ancient history professor claims
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Traditionally counted, there were seven kings of Rome. However, it is difficult to attribute their deeds to a respective ruler, because ancient records were
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - History is not often kind. While some historical figures, like the Tudors, the Yorks, and Lancasters, have extensive information about them that survives
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - The demise of the Roman Empire left a power vacuum, not just in Italy but also in the Frankish territory in what is
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Hypatia was a great ancient scholar who was more interested in science than religion. Her quest for scientific knowledge was admirable but clouded
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Civilizations
David Tee - AncientPages.com - The name may bring fear to many, as this ancient society is forever linked with those who cause destruction to property - vandals, and
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The library of Celsus is one of the best known and the most beautiful classic monuments in Turkey. It was built in 117 AD
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Catherine of Alexandria belongs to the most famous saints. There were so many legends about her that some hagiographers (writers of biographies of saints)
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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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David Tee - AncientPages.com - Constantine was born in 280 BC to not so humble origins as his father, Constantine Chlorus, who ruled as a sub emperor with 2
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Ancient Symbols
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Early Christians used many secret symbols and one of them was known as the Ichthys. Named for the Koine Greek term for fish, this
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Vercingetorix was an Arverni nobleman, a prince of Gaul and the most famous of all the Gaul. He was a mighty, brave warrior and
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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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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An ancient Masada stronghold is located on an isolated rock plateau at the western end of the Judean Desert, near the Dead Sea's western shore.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Battle of Alesia took place in September 52 BC. It was the culmination of Caesar's successful campaigns to bring Gaul (modern France) into
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Pax Romana (‘Roman Peace’) was a period of relative peace and stability across the Roman Empire which lasted for over 200 years, beginning
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