When the Vatican appointed the sculptor and architect Michelangelo to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica, he based it on the Greek ...
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Hangry Jesus? Rumbling stomach may have spurred iconic ‘cleansing of the Temple’
A new peer-reviewed article offers an alternative reading of the famous Gospel story that saw Jesus flipping the tables of ...
The same travertine quarries near Rome that built St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum are still being dug out today, providing the distinctive pock-marked rock to build a new generation of churches ...
Researchers found a tiny bottle from ancient Rome that contained fecal residue and traces of aromatics, offering evidence that poop was used medicinally more than two thousand years ago.
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Police investigate how Rome’s beloved Bernini elephant sculpture lost the tip of its tusk — again
Police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk.
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The Princess of Bagicz: Dendrochronology settles debate over age of rare Roman-era wooden coffin
Dr. Marta Chmiel-Chrzanowska and her colleagues conducted a multidisciplinary analysis of the only known preserved wooden coffin from the Roman Iron Age, the Princess of Bagicz. The study, published ...
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396 AD – The invasion that forced Rome to seal Greece
In the wake of Alaric’s devastating invasion of Greece in 396 AD, the Eastern Roman Empire made a fateful decision: seal off the Peloponnese behind a massive stone barrier. The Hexamilion Wall ...
In modern-day Jordan, a 1500-year old mass grave sheds light on the lives of people affected by the Plague of Justinian.
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