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Vikings made beads from Roman mosaics
(ORDO NEWS) — Researchers from Aarhus University and the City Museum of Ribe, Denmark have reconstructed the entire bead-making process…
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Bioarchaeologists have figured out the diet of people from the burial in the restroom of the Roman thermae
(ORDO NEWS) — Bioarchaeologists examined the remains of nine adults from Scotland, who were buried in the lavatory at the…
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Iron Age settlement and Roman villa with baths and wine cellar found in France
(ORDO NEWS) — Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Iron Age settlement in the southern French city of Thuir,…
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Rare Roman Wooden Figurine Unearthed At Railway Dig In Buckinghamshire
(ORDO NEWS) — An early Roman rare wooden carved figure has been discovered during work on the HS2 project. In…
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Stained-glass Roman bowl discovered in oldest city in the Netherlands
(ORDO NEWS) — The glass product is about two thousand years old, but there are no chips or cracks on…
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In Switzerland, builders discovered an ancient Roman amphitheater
(ORDO NEWS) — During construction work in Kaiseraugst (Switzerland), an ancient Roman amphitheater was discovered under a layer of earth,…
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Xylospongium – the Roman progenitor of toilet paper
(ORDO NEWS) — The xylospongium or tersorium (lat. Tersorium), also known as the “sponge on a stick”, was a hygienic…
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Tattoos in ancient Roman society
(ORDO NEWS) — In the Roman and Greek world, tattoos were usually associated with barbarians and their mysterious cults. The…
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Briefly about how the Roman legionaries ended up in China
(ORDO NEWS) — The army of the Thracian Spartacus , who raised a great uprising of slaves, in 71 BC.…
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Roman roads are a miracle of human technological and engineering thought
(ORDO NEWS) — People used roads as far back as the Bronze Age, but the Romans actually reinvented them, showing…
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