New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome
New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome - Visitors can walk over the map in the museum in ...
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A War Diary Soars Over Rome
All around are ruins—empty pedestals ... bearded Dacian warriors, a proud marble army in the very heart of Rome. The message seems intended for Romans, not the surviving Dacians, most of ...
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A huge marble head of a monumental statue from the Ptolemaic period, found in a medieval house at Taposiris Magna
Intriguingly, the artifact was found amid the ruins of a 7th-century A.D. house, raising questions about its journey across centuries to this unusual location. The huge marble head ... center during ...
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Piecing Together a Plan of Ancient Rome
The Marble Plan was originally on display ... because it is our only source for the urban fabric of Rome,” she says. “Standing ruins of major monuments and keyhole excavations throughout ...
Ruins of ancient Roman home — with jars for collecting taxes — found in Libya. See it
The ruins of Ptolemais are in the modern-day city of Tolmeita, Libya. The country sits along the Mediterranean Sea in North Africa and borders Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia. Google ...
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Rome: Back to Marble, Almost
This week TENNIS.com will be featuring one of our blog regulars, Asad Raza, who is in Rome for the men's Italian ... The trouble is that the marble has been covered with cushions, and the famous ...
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A Roman Statue of Athena Is Unveiled at Wrightwood 659 Ahead of ‘Myth and Marble’ at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Halsted Athena, Roman, first half of the 1st century CE; marble, height 74.5 in. Courtesy the Halsted A&A Foundation Acquiring original Roman classical marbles is no simple feat. Between ...