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A Five-Pound Hunk of the World's Oldest Known Synthesized Pigment Was Found in Nero's Palace
In the ruins of Rome’s opulent Domus Aurea palace, archaeologists have uncovered an array of ancient pigments used by ...
Archaeology breakthrough as 'Egyptian blue' ingot found in historic site
Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was a Roman emperor, ...
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Sculpture showing typical Roman houses
Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman ... lived in a domus. This was a house built around an ...
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A Rare Boundary Stone from the Tetrarchy Period of the Roman Empire Contains Two Unknown Place Names
This remarkable find sheds light on the administrative practices of the Roman Empire during the reign of Emperor Diocletian, revealing details about the organization of territorial boundaries, land ...
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Bright blue chunk found in Rome turns out to be rare 2,000-year-old material. See it
Archaeologists sifted through the ruins of the Domus Aurea, also known as the ... 5,000 years to ancient Egypt and was popular in the Roman Empire. The block of blue pigment measured about 6 ...
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Mosaic of Roman farmer with cattle and plow
Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...