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Showcasing the secrets of Caistor Roman town

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created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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 ...





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Caistor skeleton mystifies archaeologists

Caistor skeleton mystifies archaeologists

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (14) | comments 1

A skeleton, found at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham.


Father-son team find Roman Briton remains

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created Nov 23, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

The skeleton of an ancient Roman Briton apparently with some social standing was found by two men who previously unearthed a $2 million Viking treasure.


'Dutch' Batavians more Roman than thought

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created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

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 ...


Stunning survey unveils new secrets of Caistor Roman town

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created Dec 13, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 0

On the morning of Friday July 20, 1928, the crew of an RAF aircraft took photographs over the site of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk, a site which now lies in open fields to the south of ...


Roman artifacts found in Swedish graves

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created Nov 09, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Shards of Roman ceramics found in ancient graves in western Sweden suggest there was more contact between the Romans and Swedes than thought.


Archaeologists find early depiction of a menorah (AP)

Archaeologists find early depiction of a menorah

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created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday. The ...


This picture released by the CNRS/Universite de Provence shows a column of Emperor Nero banquet hall

Archaeologists unearth Nero's revolving banquet hall

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created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

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 ...


A marble bust of Roman Emperor Vespasian

Archaeologists unearth 'birthplace of Roman emperor' in Italy

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created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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.


Ancient British artifacts to be displayed

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created Nov 30, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

An ancient curse inscribed on a sheet of lead is one of several treasures going on display from a British archaeological dig.


Computerization meets the Roman Empire

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created Sep 22, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ancient Rome met 21st century e-science this summer in a Hampshire County field in Britain.



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