http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- Just in time for Christmas, archaeologists on Monday unveiled what may have been the home of one of Jesus' childhood neighbors. The humble dwelling is the first dating to the era of Jesus to be discovered in Nazareth, then a hamlet of around 50 impoverished Jewish families where Jesus spent his boyhood. http://www.physorg.com/news180637757.html Other Sciences Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:00:08 EST news180637757 (PhysOrg.com) -- Brisbane may be 2000 years and half-a-world away from Pompeii, but it hasn`t stopped a UQ archaeologist from digging up some hidden treasures. http://www.physorg.com/news178385177.html Other Sciences Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:50:02 EST news178385177 (AP) -- Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news177176994.html Other Sciences Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:52:37 EST news177176994 The Batavians, who lived in the Netherlands at the start of the Christian era were far more Roman than was previously thought. After just a few decades of Roman occupation, the Batavians had become so integrated that they cooked, built and bathed in a Roman manner. Dutch researcher Stijn Heeren discovered this during archaeological research. http://www.physorg.com/news175507383.html Other Sciences Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:20:01 EST news175507383 Archaeologists have unveiled the remains of a revolving banquet room built by the Roman emperor Nero, who ruled between 54 and 68 BC and was famed for his depraved and extravagant lifestyle, a statement said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news174154217.html Other Sciences Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:20:16 EST news174154217 (AP) -- Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled what they think are the remains of Roman emperor Nero's extravagant banquet hall, a circular space that rotated day and night to imitate the Earth's movement and impress his guests. http://www.physorg.com/news173459540.html Other Sciences Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:30:06 EST news173459540 A Wikipedia page devoted to Roman Polanski was locked on Monday due to fighting over whether the entry should emphasize his accomplishments as a film-maker or his underage sex case. http://www.physorg.com/news173367763.html Technology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:44:57 EST news173367763 On six more Saturdays between now and mid-November, a caravan of pilgrims will arrive at University Park, Pennsylvania. Many will sport outlandishly colorful attire. Some will appear days beforehand and live in tents, setting up camp outside Beaver Stadium. And on game day, as many as 107,000 fans will crowd into one of the the largest stadiums in North America. Still more will feast and imbibe from their vehicles -a modern ritual called `tailgating,` while listening to the thunderous roar of the crowd inside. http://www.physorg.com/news172428224.html Other Sciences Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:10:03 EST news172428224 The largest cache of rare coins ever found in a scientific excavation from the period of the Bar-Kokhba revolt of the Jews against the Romans has been discovered in a cave by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan University. http://www.physorg.com/news171711638.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:47:31 EST news171711638 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Book of Kells and similarly illustrated manuscripts of seventh- and eighth-century England and Ireland are known for their entrancingly intricate artwork -- geometric designs so precise that in some places they contain lines less than half a millimeter apart and nearly perfectly reproduced in repeating patterns -- leading a later scholar to call them "works not of men, but of angels." http://www.physorg.com/news171132916.html Other Sciences Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:55:54 EST news171132916 Archaeologists said Thursday they had unearthed the ruins of a villa believed to be the birthplace of a Roman Emperor who reigned almost 2,000 years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news168803433.html Other Sciences Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:40:01 EST news168803433 (PhysOrg.com) -- It might simply look like a smudge, but even the slightest stain on the ancient writing surface of papyrus could obscure a revelation of a past civilization. Now, with the advent of high-tech imaging, some of those secrets could reveal fascinating insights into everyday life of early Egyptian, Greek and Roman societies. http://www.physorg.com/news166200717.html Technology Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:52:52 EST news166200717 In December 2007 a team of experts, led by The University of Nottingham, unveiled an extraordinary set of high-resolution images that gave an insight into the plan of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk. http://www.physorg.com/news165059379.html Other Sciences Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:50:13 EST news165059379 An artificial underground cave, the largest in Israel, has been exposed in the Jordan Valley in the course of a survey carried out by the University of Haifa's Department of Archaeology. http://www.physorg.com/news164888922.html Other Sciences Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:29:10 EST news164888922 Greek mathematics is considered one of the great intellectual achievements of antiquity. It has been decisive to the academic and cultural development of Western civilisation. The three Roman authors Varro, Cicero and Vitruvius were all, in their own way, influenced by Greek knowledge and transferred it to Roman literature. In his dissertation, Erik Bohlin, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, studied the traces of Greek influence on these authors with regard to the mathematical branch of geometry. http://www.physorg.com/news155141057.html Other Sciences Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:45:05 EST news155141057 (PhysOrg.com) -- Roman artefacts which are nearly two thousand years old with similarities to ancient remains found at Pompeii in Italy will be examined at the Science and Technology Facilities Council`s ISIS neutron source this weekend. (21-22 February 2009). Researchers hope to learn more about our heritage by discovering whether the items were imported from southern Italy, or manufactured using similar techniques in Britain. http://www.physorg.com/news154360692.html Other Sciences Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:58:43 EST news154360692 (PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher from the University of Leicester has identified what looks to be the oldest archaeological evidence for chemical warfare--from Roman times. http://www.physorg.com/news151145419.html Other Sciences Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:50:19 EST news151145419 Ruins of a Roman temple from the second century CE have recently been unearthed in the Zippori National Park in Israel. Above the temple are foundations of a church from the Byzantine period. The excavations, which were undertaken by the Noam Shudofsky Zippori Expedition led by of Prof. Zeev Weiss of the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, shed light on the multi-cultural society of ancient Zippori. http://www.physorg.com/news137669594.html Other Sciences Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:33:14 EST news137669594