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The ancient Greeks wore a variety of hats to protect them from the elements and to act as aesthetic embellishments ...
Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...
The museum is also hosting Easter activities for families to delve into ancient Rome. The "GLADI-EGG-TOR" trail challenges families to find hidden Roman and gladiator-themed eggs around the museum.
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Gladiators returns to BBC One on Saturday evening (5th April) with the second round of semi-finals kicking off. The popular show, hosted by Bradley Walsh and his son Barney, will introduce ...
The exhibition opens with something discovered during the extensive industrialisation of the river — the head of the Roman Emperor Hadrian ... and despite what Hollywood would tell you, Viking helmets ...
Items like these also helped identify the soldiers as Roman. The dagger had a Roman design, as did a helmet found during the excavation ... discover the incredible stories of some of Rome’s most ...
Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator ... an ancient Roman helmet turned up ...
The deceased were interred there in several ways, including funerary urns set within about 20 plastered niches cut into the walls ...
Carbon-14 analysis helped date the bones to between 80 and 130 A.D. That was cross-checked against known history of relics found in the grave – armor, helmet cheek protectors, the nails used in ...
Roman gladiator events so often show up in movies, legends, and the like that it’s sometimes hard to remember that these bloody spectacles actually once happened in real life. And Turkish ...