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Statue of emperor found in ground during renovation work in Rome
(ORDO NEWS) — A marble statue was found in Rome during the repair of rain sewers. Work was going on near the Appian Way. A bulldozer was digging out hundred-year-old pipes, and suddenly the head of the sculpture appeared from the ground. The archaeologist observing the process immediately stopped the work. Francesca Romana Paolillo, archaeologist say: “I knew right away that the statue was of a man dressed as Hercules.”…
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Attila attacked Rome, saving his people from starvation
(ORDO NEWS) — Archaeologists from the University of Cambridge, Great Britain reconstructed the state of climate at the beginning of the 5th century on the Great Hungarian Plain using the growth rings of oaks from the Czech Republic and Bavaria. Scientists have come to the conclusion that this period is marked by a series of extremely dry years. It is possible that the semi-nomadic Huns were forced to raid and…
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Drought could have been a convenient excuse for Attila to attack Rome
(ORDO NEWS) — The authors of a new study believe that they have established the reason for the fall of the Roman Empire: climate change is to blame. But this conclusion raises questions. The events known in history as the Great Migration of Nations completely redrawn the map of Western Europe and led to the fall of the great empire – Rome. And they began in the second half of…
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Man-made burial mound in Rome consists of millions of ancient amphoras
(ORDO NEWS) — In Rome, there is an artificial mound Monte Testaccio, consisting almost entirely of broken ceramics. Perhaps it is the largest garbage heap in the history of the ancient world. At first glance, Monte Testaccio looks like a normal mound covered with greenery that can be found all over the world. But underneath all that shrubbery, and the thin layer of dirt that supports it, lies the largest…
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Kingdom of Palmyra was not destroyed by Rome
(ORDO NEWS) –In the second half of the 3rd century AD, one of the eastern Roman provinces declared its independence from the metropolis. Now scientists suggest that the creation of the Palmyra kingdom could not be at all the result of the personal ambitions of its rulers, and its fall could not only be the result of the military victories of Rome. In 66 BC, Gnaeus Pompey the Great, as…
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In Rome, bees “monitor” the level of environmental pollution
(ORDO NEWS) — In Rome, there is a special unit for the control of environmental pollution, in which bees “work”. Each insect collects nectar from hundreds of plants per day, and then the collected material is analyzed by scientists. For almost four years (since 2018), a police unit for the protection of the environment has been operating in Italy. On the roof of the headquarters of this unit in Rome…
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Remains of Italy’s oldest chicken found near Rome
(ORDO NEWS) — Paleo zoologists examined two fragments of bird bones, which were found together with cremated human remains in a burial urn of the 10th – first half of the 9th century BC from the Montecucco necropolis. Morphological analysis showed that these bones belonged to the oldest known domestic chicken in Italy. Probably the bird or part of it was used as a ritual offering. This is reported in…
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Analysis of the denarii revealed the depth of the financial crisis in Rome
(ORDO NEWS) — A chemical analysis of the composition of denarii revealed to scientists the depth of the financial crisis in Rome, which Mark Tullius Cicero wrote about. And he allowed historians to put an end to a long-standing scientific dispute, writes the Naked Science portal. Researchers from several scientific centers in the UK conducted a chemical analysis of ancient Roman denarii and came to the conclusion that coins that…
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Archaeologists have solved the mystery of the construction of the Curia of Pompeii in Rome
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists from the University of Córdoba have solved the mystery of the construction of the Curia of Pompeii in Rome. The building for the meetings of the Roman senators and the site of the assassination of Julius Caesar were actively rebuilt in the ancient and medieval eras. According to Popular Archeology, historians conducted a detailed study of the building material, which made it possible to obtain accurate…
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Is it true that Emperor Nero burned down Rome?
(ORDO NEWS) — To this day, the Roman emperor Nero appears before us as a ruthless and cruel ruler who ordered the Eternal City to be set on fire to make way for the construction of the “Golden House” (lat. Domus Aurea) – a luxurious imperial villa. But is it true? The Roman consul and historian Cassius Dio wrote that Nero secretly sent his men who, pretending to be drunk,…
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Keys and locks in ancient Rome
(ORDO NEWS) — It turns out that the modern key and lock is a very ancient invention. For example, locks made of durable wood were already actively used in ancient Egypt and Greece. However, most of the “Klyuchnikov patents” still came from Rome , which largely adopted this knowledge from the Etruscans. Thanks to the excavations carried out in Pompeii and Herculaneum, scientists have been able to understand the daily…
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Mass rape as part of the military ethos of Rome
(ORDO NEWS) — Sexual assault has always been part of the war. This terrible phenomenon has migrated from the fields of ancient battles into our reality, where in the course of frequent military conflicts the weak and defenseless suffer most of all. The Roman army was no exception to the rule, and during armed conflicts its soldiers regularly raped women and young boys. According to Roman law, the possibility of…
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Gladiator fights in Rome were not only between men
(ORDO NEWS) — Archaeologists managed to find evidence that not only men, but also women took part in gladiatorial battles. Experts noted that they fought both among themselves and with a variety of wild animals. The Roman poet Decimus Junius Juvenal noted in his notes that women trained on an equal footing with men, used the same weapons and used the same teaching methods. At the same time, no information…
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The nutrition of men and women in ancient Rome was very different
(ORDO NEWS) — Experts from the University of York analyzed the remains of 17 people who died as a result of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The catastrophe happened back in 79 AD and caused the death of many people. Scientists have measured the isotopes of carbon, as well as nitrogen, which are found in the amino acids of bones. Thus, they were able to learn more about the nutrition…
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Marble head of the first emperor of Rome found in Italy
(ORDO NEWS) — In the Italian city of Isernia, a team of builders discovered a well-preserved marble head. In this country, such finds are not uncommon, but they cannot always be identified, or they do not always have historical value. In this case, the experts had no doubts: under the 2,000-year-old city walls was part of a sculpture or bust of Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. He was always…
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Marble head of the first emperor of the Roman Empire found in Italy
(ORDO NEWS) — A marble sculpture of Augustus Caesar was found by archaeologists in central Italy. Augustus was the first emperor of the Roman Empire, so this find is a very valuable artifact. Only the head remained of the sculpture, even the nose was not preserved. The find was found during restoration work in Isernia. Reported by ANSA. Although archaeologists have already found many busts from the time of Augustus,…
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Catacombs of Rome: What are they hiding?
(ORDO NEWS) — It is generally accepted that the catacombs appeared in Rome with the beginning of Christianity, and they were not at all an underground cemetery, but a secret refuge for the first Christians. It is not for nothing that the early Christian church is very often called the catacomb. So the persecuted Christians lived not in Rome, but near Rome, in order to avoid arrest and execution. Deep…