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What REALLY Happened to the Spear of Destiny After WWII
US deports French scientist after officials ‘find texts critical of Trump’ The Dream Team With a ‘Miracle’ Coach: Can Anyone Stop This Hockey Powerhouse? NASA reveals a sunset on the moon ...
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New Discovery in Egypt Unveils Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman Graves and Artifacts
Archaeologists uncover an ancient burial site with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman graves at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ...
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Nagpur Violence Highlights: RSS says Mughal emperor Aurangzeb is 'irrelevant'; 54 detained by police
The immediate cause of Nagpur riot was unfounded rumours that the Quran had been burned during a protest by a right-wing group demanding the removal of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's tomb in Sambhaji ...
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Vatican displays ‘The Spear of Destiny’ during Lent at St. Peter's Basilica
The Vatican unveiled the revered relic known as the Spear of Longinus, also referred to as the Spear of Destiny ... Tradition recounts that Longinus, a Roman centurion, pierced the side of ...
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A Stunning Collection of Rarely Seen Ancient Roman Sculptures Is Coming to North America for the First Time
It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and marble busts of Roman emperors. After being locked away for much of the 20th century, the collection toured Europe in a ...
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Ancient Roman Gossip Book Makes The Bestseller List 2,000 Years After Its Original Publication
The Lives of the Caesars, a gossip-filled account of the lives of Roman emperors, has officially become a bestseller 2,000 years after it was originally written thanks to a new translation by Tom ...
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Ancient Book Becomes a Bestseller 2,000 Years After Its First Publication
Julius Caesar, whose biography, along with 11 Roman emperors, is documented in ‘The Lives of the Caesars’. Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art / CC0 1.0 An ancient book about the lives of Roman ...
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The Story of Greece and Rome
The Roman emperor Nero, meanwhile, is a forerunner of the 19th-century ... he is able to hypothesise that the trauma was caused by a spike-tipped bronze butt of a Macedonian spear because he has seen ...
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When Did Rome Fall? Inside The Murky History Of The Roman Empire’s Collapse
The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in history. Starting in 27 B.C.E. after the fall of the Roman Republic, the impact of the Roman Empire — and its expansion across Europe and beyond — ...
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A Roman Renaissance: Six Senses Rome redefines urban luxury
When Spear’s last interviewed Six Senses CEO Neil Jacobs ... described the construction process as ‘authentically Roman’. ‘We do not rebuild, we have a reverence for our history,’ she said. ‘In Rome, ...
The New York Times28d
Echoing a Roman Emperor, Croatia Tries to Cap Soaring Prices
Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...