Crusader Feces, Bat Feces, Latin swear words, and building a village - medieval news roundup
Here are some news stories from the medievalverse, and a few from beyond it... Crusader Feces An article in the International Journal of Pal...
Colosseum Cleaning Yields Ancient Art Discoveries Including Old Frescos, Graffiti
A long-delayed restoration of the Colosseum's only intact internal passageway has yielded ancient traces of red, black, green and blue f...
Hadrian's hall: archaeologists finish excavation of Roman arts centre
Archaeogists who have completed the excavation of a 900-seat arts centre under one of Rome's busiest roundabouts are calling it the most...
Rome's Lost Empire, BBC One, review
Iain Hollingshead reviews Rome's Lost Empire, BBC One's one-off documentary in which Dan Snow uses satellite technology to identify ...
'First tartan' discovered on statue of Roman emperor
The earliest depiction of Scottish tartan has been discovered – on a fragment of a Roman statue. The bronze statue once stood on top of a g...
Ancient Roman Giant Found—Oldest Complete Skeleton With Gigantism
It's no tall tale—the first complete ancient skeleton of a person with gigantism has been discovered near Rome, a new study says. At 6 f...
Turkey: Ancient mosaics found in Anatolian city
An archaeological city dating back 1,700 years has been unearthed during excavations in İzmir’s Kemalpaşa neighborhood, raising officials’ h...
Environmental choices the Romans made
The Roman Empire was the world's first superpower and controlled millions of square miles at its height — everything between modern-day ...
Julius Caesar was stabbed right here, researchers claim
On March 15, 44 BC, a group of Roman senators set upon Julius Caesar in the Curia of Pompey. As they stabbed him with daggers, their murder ...
British Museum to host major exhibition on Ancient Rome in 2013
The British Museum will be featuring the ancient Roman world in an exhibition during the spring and summer of 2013. Life and death in Pompei...
Ancient Poem Praises Murderous Roman Emperor Nero
A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of the infamous Roman emperor Nero, showing her a...
Real to reel: Course explores ancient Greece and Rome in the movies
Was “Spartacus” an anti-fascist polemic? Does “Agora” demonstrate the horrors of anti-science religious zealotry? Did the Trojans really dre...
Rome's Colosseum leaning precariously
The ancient Colosseum of Rome, where gladiators fought for their lives, is slanting about 40 centimetres lower on the south side than on the...
'Capitoline Wolf' could be 1,700 years younger
A study has shown that the “Capitoline Wolf,” a bronze statue representing Ancient Rome's most famous symbol, was probably sculpted duri...
Researchers solve the mystery of Palmyra
In ancient Roman times A.D., Palmyra was the most important point along the trade route linking the east and west, reaching a population of ...
2,000 year-old gold and silver hoard uncovered in Israel
The Israel Antiquities Authority reports they have uncovered a spectacular 2,000 year-old gold and silver hoard during an archaeological exc...
Fourth-century Hebrew inscription discovered in Portugal
Archaeologists of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena found one of the oldest archaeological evidence so far of Jewish Culture on the Ibe...
Outrage over plan to dump rubbish at Hadrian's villa
Emperor Hadrian, the famously cultured Hellophile, is probably spinning in his tomb by the banks of the Tiber. If the current state of his ...
Interactive map of the Roman Empire now online
Imagine you’re in Rome, it’s 205 CE, and you’ve got to figure out the quickest way to transport wheat to Virunum, in what’s now Austria. You...
Smuggled cargo found on Roman shipwreck
Evidence of ancient smuggling activity has emerged from a Roman shipwreck, according to Italian archaeologists who have investigated the ves...
