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Massive Piece of World’s Oldest Synthetic Pigment Discovered in Palace of Infamous Roman Emperor
Deep beneath the heart of Rome, underneath Nero’s lavish Domus Aurea, archaeologists have uncovered a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic pigment. Hidden for nearly 2,000 years, ...
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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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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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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 ...