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Did Herodes Atticus Murder His Wife Appia Annia Regilla? A Strange Case in Which No One Was Convicted Thanks to the Protection of Marcus Aurelius
It was the year 160 AD when Appius Annius Atilius Bradua filed a complaint before the Roman Senate regarding the murder of his sister. The direct perpetrator of the crime was a freedman named ...
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Jacques Coeur, the Legendary Merchant of Fortune Who Laid the Foundations of France’s Wealth
To relieve my poverty, / my heart sometimes tells me: / “Man, do not worry so much / and do not endure such pain; / if you do not have as much as Jacques Coeur, / it is better to live under a great ...
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Roman Sanctuary with Inscriptions Discovered in a Deep Chamber of the Prehistoric Cova de les Dones in Spain
Researcher Xabier Garín Artázcoz points out the exact location of the cavity where the Roman coin from the time of Emperor Claudius was found. Credit: A. Ruiz-Redondo, V. Barciela & X. Martorell This ...
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The Remains of a Copper Age Warrior Found in Germany Still Wear a Wrist Guard for the Bowstring
Detail of a burial of the Bell Beaker Culture. A wrist guard of red stone lies at the forearm of the individual. Credit: Sarah Krohn / State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology ...
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The Mystery of the Women Buried Simultaneously with More Than 270,000 Beads Made from Seashells, Stone, and Bone 4,900 Years Ago
Detail of the threaded beads on attire UE 344 next to the bones of Individual 343 Credit: David W. Wheatley In the southwest of Spain, at the Montelirio tholos burial site (built between 2900 and 2800 ...
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The Eruption of Mount Tambora That Caused the Year Without a Summer in 1816 Is the Largest Documented to Date
The huge caldera—6 kilometers in diameter and 1,100 meters deep—formed when Tambora’s estimated 4,000-meter-high peak was removed, and the magma chamber below emptied during the 1815 eruption. Today ...
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The Sasanian Royal Garden of Qaṣr-e Šīrīn: A Lost Paradise That Inspired Garden Design from Persia to Al-Andalus
For centuries, the monumental complex of Qaṣr-e Šīrīn, located in the province of Kermanshah, Iran, has been the subject of study by historians and archaeologists. However, one of its most fascinating ...
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The Pre-Hispanic Casarabe Civilization Developed an Engineering System to Cultivate Maize Year-Round in the Amazon Between 500 and 1400 AD
A recent archaeological discovery has revealed that an ancient pre-Columbian society in the Amazon region successfully developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to ...
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How a Dispute Over a Board Game Led to the Rebellion of the Seven States, Which Paved the Way for Chinese Unification
Like almost every country, especially those spanning vast territories, China went through a unification process that culminated during the reign of the Qin dynasty, in the era known as the Warring ...
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Chrocus, the Alemannic Chieftain Who Destroyed All the Temples of Gaul in the 3rd Century
We have previously discussed the Crisis of the 3rd Century, that period of antiquity also known as the Anarchy of the 3rd Century because, for fifty years—from the assassination of Alexander Severus ...
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Iron Age beads found in Syria were created from Baltic amber from over 3000 kilometers away
Iron Age amber beads from the Baltic Sea found in Syria. Credit: M. N. Mortensen et al. / National Museum of Denmark A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has ...
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The Fascinating History of a Decorated Mesolithic Antler Fragment: It Was an Axe, Then a Harpoon, and Finally an Offering Deposited in a River
Mesolithic decorated antler fragment found in Sweden. Credit: Peter Zetterlund / National Historical Museums A recent archaeological study in Sweden has revealed a fascinating discovery that ...