Roman empire Archive
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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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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among all the achievements of ancient engineering, Roman aqueducts belong to the most exceptional ones. The multiple arches of the Pont du Gard
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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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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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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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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Vercingetorix was an Arverni nobleman and a prominent figure in Gaul, recognized as the most renowned leader among the Gauls. He was known
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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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News
AncientPages.com - The Battle of Rain (also called the Battle of the River Lech or Battle of Lech) was fought on April 15, 1632, during the Thirty Years’ War. The forces involved in this
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