An ancient Roman villa in northern France also had a burial from relatively recent history. D. Delaporte French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research Decades after an ancient site ...

The numeral IX is written as X (10) - I (1), which equals 9. While Roman numerals (unsurprisingly) date back to ancient Rome, they are used in many facets of society beyond the Super Bowl, including ...

In the best restaurants along the Bosphorus strait Roman Abramovich’s high dining is setting tongues wagging as much as it once did in London. “I love Abramovich so much,” enthuses Omer Ataysin, an ...

The ancient Roman city in southern Italy was destroyed by a catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

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Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman villa in the ancient city of Ptolemais, located in present-day Libya. Among the findings, the team discovered an enigmatic stone face that does not appear to ...

Amateur archaeologists discovered a gold coin in a field, leading to a full-fledged search that revealed 141 Roman-era gold coins ... to study in its entirety an ancient monetary deposit in ...

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Shortly after Musk made the gesture, the term "Roman salute" started trending online. While it appears similar to the Nazi salute associated with Adolf Hitler, the gesture has ancient roots.